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snalin:
I'm 16, and I've been doing forum boards a lot for like... four years? It has gotten a bit more serious over the last years, but I've never met someone from a forum in RL. Not because I don't want to, just because most of the cool people I could meet lives over the Atlantic.

I only know one person that has met a forum friend in RL, and they are sending christmas and birthday gifts to eachother. But I think that young people (like me) are more likely to be satisfied with a internett friendship, while older people probably would want to meet up. The weird thing is that many forum people that I talk a lot to is often more than ten years older than me, and meeting them randomly would just be wrong.

Sox:
Meeting most people for the first time can be awkward. But like all relationships, it gets easier the more you do it. While I'm usually quiet around new people, after a few meetings they will seriously pay me to shut up.

jhocking:

--- Quote from: Sam on 06 Jun 2008, 13:45 ---so why would it be wrong?

--- End quote ---

Because he's 16. No matter how accepted the internet gets, teenagers hanging out with strange men they met online will never not be creepy.

pwhodges:
It's the same the other way round; I would feel seriously creepy about meeting most people here in real life - it just wouldn't work because the differences, in age, and in other things, would just become too apparent.

Gemmwah:
I've had the internet since I was eleven, but I never met anyone from online until this year. I am twenty, by the way. I was invited by an "internet friend" to her birthday party and went with my best mate, and we got horrendously drunk, and I had the second worst hangover I've ever encountered, and then we went out and drank more. I had to sit on a coach for a good few hours on the way home with THE worst hangover I've ever had. Anyway, we speak a lot, talk on the phone and text when we're out of the house. In fact thinking about it now we really do talk an obscene amount. We also went to a gig two weeks ago in camden, which was awesome. But I'm glad I waited to meet someone that I really click with because I get the feeling we're gonna be friends for a really long while. That's why I put internet friend in inverted commas, because I consider her more of a real friend than an internet friend, even though i met her for the first time online. I always considered it a bit risky to meet people from the internet but now I'm not really worried about it at all, because I don't have any trouble talking, be it meeting people for the first time or the hundredth time. I guess I just talk a lot.

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