I'm meeting strangers off the Internet! *lighthearted *

[Theblackdogagain]

Sorry for the click bait title but I've just realised I'm doing something I would hate my kids to do.
I'm going alone to an organised meet up for a niche hobby (fantasy related), staying in a hotel and spending all weekend with people I have never met before.
My teens were shocked I'm doing this as we gave taught them Internet safety but it all looks above the board and I'm a fully grown women.
Please reassure me I'll have fun and not end up at the bottom of a shallow grave! This is my first time doing something so bold!
Dh is staying at home with the DC so it was alone or not at all.

[StarlightLady]

It's "people" not an unknown person and there will be others about. You'll be fine.

I expect your teens are taught that such things are fine when others are about too. It's not as if you are going for a 1:00 am walk in the woods.

[Briskingeniousforce]

If I can't see any malware as an app, on my phone, security apps don't detect any threats, I have a VPN and my Google accounts look secure, how can somebody be viewing my phone screen, particularly when they have police officer friends to help them?

[TheFlis]

Many moons ago, pre-mumsnet, there was a discussion board called Handbag. There were many big meets through that forum and like you, I rocked up at one in London on my own and stayed in a hotel with a load of them. I am still friends with several 20 years later.