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AIBU?

to think it is perfectly normal to meet people from the internet in real life?

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5inthebed · 14/08/2011 21:32

And that it is becoming an everyday in this day and age?

I have a friend coming to stop at my house in a few weeks time, she is bringing her children, and I have children as well. We met on the internet (on a different parenting forum) years ago, and have met up twice since. She is like my best friend, my best online friend anyway.

My mother is disgusted by this. She thinks that I am putting my whole family at risk, and that said friend will be a mass murderer and pinch my kids.

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ToothbrushThief · 14/08/2011 21:35

I have loads of friends who I have met online. They have yet to steal my kids.

I have met loads of 'strangers' but usually after chatting for a long time and I would class my best friends amongst this group now. We stay at each other's houses and share life events etc

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 14/08/2011 21:35

Oh, I've met loads of people off the internet, not one has been an axe-weilding killer. So far.

Takitezee · 14/08/2011 21:35

YANBU. I have met quite a few people over the years and have several good friends that I meet up with regularly.

wompoopigeon · 14/08/2011 21:37

Just wait till she has to attend her first wedding where they met on the internet! The stress will probably kill her!

usualsuspect · 14/08/2011 21:37

I think its a perfectly normal way to meet people

SaulGood · 14/08/2011 21:38

Some of my best friends I've met on the internet.

5inthebed · 14/08/2011 21:39

Ah yes, one of my best (male) friends met his wife on the internet and they have two children. I think her head would explode if I ever told her that.

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nickschick · 14/08/2011 21:39

My best friend (who ive never met) is an online friend -shes fab shame sdhe doesnt live near me though .

timidviper · 14/08/2011 21:40

YANBU at all but remember times have changed. Your mother thinks like that as computers, internet, etc are all new to her generation. Long time ago now, my mother was once very concerned because we had our friends, a gay couple, to stay while our children were in the house! Move on almost 20 years and she would be totally different as times have changed and she has learned. It's just another of those generational things.

Bonsoir · 14/08/2011 21:40

Yes, perfectly normal. I have met many MNers now and I don't think twice about it.

LaVitaBellissima · 14/08/2011 21:43

Ask her if she'd ever had a penfriend, I think making friends on the internet is like a modern version of that.

Unless she's one of those crazy ladies who write to men on death row

LaVitaBellissima · 14/08/2011 21:43

RueDeWakening · 14/08/2011 21:44

I married someone I met on the internet :o he's almost perfectly normal.

YANBU.

nenevomito · 14/08/2011 21:44

Yes have met mners in RL and a bloody good thing too as they're lurvely!

MirandaGoshawk · 14/08/2011 21:45

Personally, I wouldn't want to meet any of you. But I'm not a sociable type. I'm amazed, actually, to hear that people do it. I'm glad for you that you found a good mate. Good for you!

HowToLookGoodGlaikit · 14/08/2011 21:45

I met both my husband and my bridesmaid online, plus I have 5 more friends I would regard as "close", all that I met online over the last 10 years.

FabbyChic · 14/08/2011 21:46

My mother met her partner on the internet 9 years ago. She moved in with him after a week. They met at a service station on a Motorway.

PersonalClown · 14/08/2011 21:47

I met DP online. He's now taking up space living here.
I've survived so far!!

2 of my best friends are onliners due to distance.

Its just the modern way of meeting new people.

hiddenhome · 14/08/2011 21:48

I met my best friend on the internet and my husband.

Both these people have yet to murder me or steal my children

ChaoticAngeloftheUnderworld · 14/08/2011 21:48

I've met plenty of people (not mners) off the internet. None of them have stolen my kids yet. Mind you if they did they'd soon give them back

Snorbs · 14/08/2011 21:49

I've got good friends I first met on-line over 20 years ago. We still meet up every now and then.

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AuntieMonica · 14/08/2011 21:50

i've made some fabulous friends online. some i have met, some not.

not all of us them are axe murderers

VelvetSnow · 14/08/2011 21:52

I met DP online about 5 years ago, after months of cybersex chatting on msn, we decided to meet.

I knew I was perfectly safe, however the "what if" part of my brain ensured that my best friend knew which hotel I was staying in, and she was to call me twice a day to check i was still alive that i was having a nice time.

It's normal to meet online these days, chatting online is pretty much the same as meeting a stranger in the pub except that when chatting online you do not need to become an instant lipreader and just nod and smile over the music

FreudianSlipper · 14/08/2011 21:54

you met on line friends over 20 years ago i was not even using email then

i think it is a great way to meet people, if you have got to know someone very well it cements the relationship especially in support forums a friend of mine is going through a very difficult time and has made some really good close friends

i have made some internet friends and friends with benefits too, its the way things are now nothing wrong with it

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