meeting someone who you met online, is this still frowned upon??

[MissyPie]

I'm interested to know what women out there think about meeting someone you initially chatted to online

I met my partner online 3 years ago and we have a daughter, my family and friends were shocked by this and still cannot get over it, (he could've been a weirdo etc lol)

Is this kind of thing now more run of the mill what with the social networking boom over the past few years???

I'm interested to know your thoughts

Thanks

I know a few people who met online and had good relationships.

Personally if it suits them leave them to it. If you havent been through it then you cant possibly know what they are feeling or what is going through their minds.

If it all works out for the best, then I cant see the problem with it.

Anyone you meet anywhere can be a weirdo!
The internet has created a new species.

Just makes life a little different when it comes to meeting people.

Says she who met DP on FB and the only real weird thing about him is he hates ham!!

I'm engaged to someone I met online and it has been a total non story to friends.

Hasn't created.... must not let dogs stand in the way of the screen!

my thoughts exactly, anyone can be a weirdo, it doesn't matter if they know how to type or not lol.

I'm perfectly happy in my relationship but just wondered if it was just my technophobe family..and it appears so :)

Hi agree with the other posters, met my husband online, he is the kindest most supportive guy I have ever known and its been seven years

I met my husband on an internet dating site 4 years ago, married 2 and half years ago, TTC #1 !!

I know loads of people who've met their partners online, it's far less taboo these days. I'm sitting opposite my online find I say fine, we've known each other since primary school but met again on FrindsReunited.

No it's not, it's kind of the norm now, I'd say.

I met my H on the internet 10 years ago. Actually, I lie - I met him on a phone sex chatline. We told everyone else we met on the internet. Reactions varied between "OMG!" and "Good on you!". So not that much of a problem till a few days ago when I found out he recently cheated on me. One does wonder whether we were doomed from the start ...

But, in answer to your original question, I think more people do meet on the internet now and most people don't find it that weird (although I guess it depends which website you met via - Match.com generally ok to people, AdultFriendFinder.com, perhaps not so ok ...)

Not stigmatized these days, unless you have very boring, narrowminded mundane family/friends who think everyone should marry someone they were at school with and never go more than three miles from where they were born.

Mind you, some people will freak out if you admit or let slip that you met your new partner through a contact site that's about sex, or allows people to discuss it, rather than Searching For Twue Luv type sites.

I know two couples who formed very successful long term relationships through Guardian Soulmates, so no, I don't think the online thing has stigma.

OTOH if "online" means on a fetish site, or playing World Of Warcraft, or even in Outpost Gallifrey then that might attract some stigma...there's online, and then there's online IYSWIM.

This is cheering reading. I met DP by total fluke when we loaded an AOL free trial onto a laptop my little sister had home from school for the holidays (what can I say, t'internet was a novelty then!). I was trolling in a chat room and we got talking. Hit it off ridiculously well and after a lot of toing and froing, here we are 8 years down the line with two children and as much in love as ever. We tell people we met through a friend

Online dating is completely normal amongst the people that I associate with. I met my extra gorgeous DH online 2 years ago, so I only have good things to say about it.

SA