Did you ever started a friendship over the internet ?

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I "met" this lady a couple of weeks ago, she is American and much older than me. We clicked, we have a lots in common. Have you ever started a friendship the same way as I did ? If yes, did you meet up ?? I was never in this situation ! X

Oh shit I sign with a X, please ignore it

Yes, several friendships with both males and females. two of those have gone on to be sexual; the last of those two, well, we're married now.

The other friendships have waxed and waned but I've made several friends where we've stayed in touch for years, still in touch with some of them; a couple have become very dear friends and we meet up face to face whenever we can.

As it happens I'm also older than my husband.

Yes, I joined some internet groups connected with a hobby of mine and several of us meet up a few times a year. We are RL friends as well now.

From about 15-20 I was friends on MSN messenger with a guy from Norway we used to chat for hours, but I can't rember what! It was never romantic/ sexual, just friendly. It kind of petered out when I met DH.

Many friends over the years.

Yes I did and we're now happily married

I have a lovely friend. We met on a forum for people who had a particular type of medical problem.

I liked her because she was positive about her condition whereas some of the others were drainingly negative. She really does get dealt every body blow going but she keeps going on and on with her head held up. She is a genuinely lovely person.

8 yrs later and we no longer use that forum. We moved onto emailing each other and sending each others letters. We share life. I am there for her to offload to. I cannot help much but encourage and I like to send her treats via the post to cheer her up.

We haven't met up - we live a long way from each other but hopefully I will one day.

So positive !!! I really hope we can meet one day, she is so funny !

Yes it meta friend on a forum for a medical issue. We've been friends for ten years and our children now go to school together

I 'met' my best friend on a message board connected to a forum we both used. We chat most days, about anything and everything, she is often the first person outside of immediate family that I discuss things with. We met once, in real life, but our friendship would have continued without that.

needa one thing to be aware of is that when you meet people on the net, specially if there's a romantic spark, you bring a lot of your own preconceptions to someone a long long way away. You only see so much of someone's character on the net and it's easy to fill in the blanks with your own ideas. The real person is often rather different. Not necessarily in a bad way, just different.

Also be just a bit wary and careful. There's some real jokers around. When i say 'jokers', I mean the kind who have the same sense of humour as the guy in batman.

There are also genuine and very rewarding people out there too =)

I love hearing from your experience !!!

Yep! On here. Mad as frogs. Can't shake them off

Yep, I met one of my closest friends on a parenting forum. Turned out she was moving about 10 minutes away from me so I suggested coffee one morning and that was it. Friends for 7 years now.

I met one of my best friends on a forum. I've also met a number that have become fun friendships that are more not deep friendships.

Met a few good friends that way, and my husband

Met a very good friend here on MN. Our DHs are also friends now, as are out DDs. We see them regularly, have been on holiday with them etc.

Have also met other friends via MN and another parenting website too.

Yes. A couple of my closest friends I met on another message board. I've also met people from here. And I was seeing a colleague from a different office for a while - I guess we technically met online, as we never met in person or even been on a video conference for work until we agreed to visit as a non-work thing.

I've also met some people I just didn't really click with, so haven't met again, haven't met anyone who's a total nutter, but I did cancel meeting one guy, because I just wasn't getting the right vibe and didn't feel comfortable.

The internet has also allowed me to reestablish contact with my childhood penfriend in Malaysia. (We still haven't met in person, though some years ago, I did go to Malaysia and went to her address in KL that I'd written to for all those years, even though she didn't live there any more. I had a hair cut in a salon opposite.)

Yes.

I wouldn't do it again.

I have made a few online friends through a FB group for a particular interest/ hobby. You sort of get a feel for who you like and get on with and then they or you send a friend request. I'm hoping to meet some of the women who are relatively near. I wish I could meet my male friend, who is in America, but its highly unlikely. I do tend to stick to making friends with women and Gay men (rather than hetero men). We move around a lot with DHs work so online friends feel pretty rewarding as its how I communicate with RL friends mostly. They just sort of blend in :)

Yes I've gained several friends and a DH from a forum based around a mutual hobby.

Many. Met up with several including a friend from Australia whom I talked to for 10 years when he eventually came to the UK (for reasons unrelated to our friendship).

Yes, I met my best friend through a forum 11 years ago. We met up in RL after chatting for a few months and discovering we only lived 40 miles apart.

5 years ago, when we were both going through divorces, we decided to pool our resources. We've been sharing a house ever since and are still best friends!

Yes, I met my husband online!

Have met a lovely friend on here!
Not Met in person, but she's is definitely one of the good guys!