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AIBU?

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Original poster

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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shakey1500 · 14/08/2011 23:49

I've met two of my internet friends and would love to meet more, stupid geography getting in the way :)

The first was a fantastic boozy long lunch where the only time we didn't talk/laugh was to partake of fluids. Second lunch is on the cards during term time.

Second was...errr....a fantastic boozy evening.

There's a theme here isn't there?

Kallista · 14/08/2011 23:53

I've put my profile on a dating website (not brave enough to go on any dates yet though). My mum thinks I could end up meeting a really dodgy man but I tried to explain that it will be nothing new if I do!!
Although I know some people who had bad experiences with internet dating; I also know several women from 20s up to 50s at work who met their husbands / boyfriends online. I also love facebook - one of my RL friends met her new husband (an ex-schoolfriend) through facebook. The teenage daughter of another friend met her first serious boyfriend through facebook.

Nihilisticbunny · 15/08/2011 00:28

I met my dp through wap, it was phone internet, before phone internet was proper internet. I think there were only about 12 people using it 10 years and 3 kids later.......we are still in contact with a few people from that group too, although never met up irl.

Nihilisticbunny · 15/08/2011 00:31

Although I haven't made any friends online, I'm as socially stunted on here as I am irl, boo hiss.

DuelingFanjo · 15/08/2011 00:32

I met my DH online on a forum we both posted on, I thought he was a twat at first. It wasn't a dating site of any kind but I know a lot of marriages have happened and babies have been born as a direct resut of the site. Wave to Dita

TottWriter · 15/08/2011 00:38

I'm inviting four people to my wedding who I have never actually met. I've known them longer than I've known DP though, so it's all good.

Tee2072 · 15/08/2011 07:02

I not only met my husband on the internet, we had to fly across the world to meet and then I flew across it so we could be together.

That was 8 years ago the end of this month. I'm still alive. He has not yet kidnapped our 2 year old. He has, however, threatened to sell him to the gypsies. But so have I.

EttiKetti · 15/08/2011 07:09

Another who met DH online, 11 years ago, married for 10 years with 2 more children. I've also met loads of people from another parenting site, a few of whom are very close friends despite a long distance between us, and a dozen or so of us have drunken lovely weekends together every year.

TheMagnificentBathykolpian · 15/08/2011 08:21

I've had two mners and their families over at my house this week alone. It's nice.

biddysmama · 15/08/2011 08:24

my mil thinks facebook is evil.... dh wont let me remind her that if it wasnt for facebook she wouldnt have 3 (and ones growing) of her grandchildren since i re-met him on facebook (i went to school with his sister)

2 of my daughters god parents and 1 of my sons are people i met on the internet,its the new going out! lol

biddysmama · 15/08/2011 08:28

oooh and my dad met his wife on the internet and i now have 2 baby brothers :)

alisonsmum · 15/08/2011 08:29

i met my husband 7 years ago online...he is from cape town south africa n im from yorkshire. hes been here in yorkshire with me for 4 years now, we've been married 3 years n have a daughter n another on the way (due next week!)

sausagesandmarmelade · 15/08/2011 08:34

It's the way things are these days....it's a great medium for meeting people...tho of course you have to be careful and safeguard yourself at first.

I know several couples (married now) who met on line (including myself and my husband)......and I myself have met and formed real life friendships with people that I initially encountered online.

CurlyBoy · 15/08/2011 11:12

If I didn't meet people I knew online in real life I wouldn't have been happily married for the last 9 years to my lovely wife! We did it when it was far less fashionable and far more scary, before Facebook even! :)

My wife also wouldn't have a successful business with the three people she met online. She now helps run an online sewing mag and has met up with them in Birmingham for the Festival of Quilts. Shameless plug here.

Meeting in RL is no problem whatsoever, you just need to take basic precautions like getting to know them first, etc.

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