Online Dating and Meeting. What was it like?

For those of you who have met someone through online and went to meet them in real lfe... You don't have to be dating them. You can just be friends. What was it like when you finally met him/her for the first time? Was it akward? Did it get just weird after that? What happened to the relationship between you after the meeting?





I'm just curious. Share stories please?

Online Dating and Meeting. What was it like?
Be careful when you meet them the ones I met were WOO WOO and not very nice in person





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Reply:did it twice and had 2 wonderful relations come from it
Reply:I met my wife on Match.com. I liked that we were able to pick the criteria in a mate we were looking for. We both had a child from previous marriages and were both looking for someone with a child so we could gauge what type of parent they were. We were both looking for someone who didn't drink or smoke too, so it was very easy to weed people out. We just had our first baby together 5 months ago. My wife is the love of my live and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world to have found her. She is an excellent mother to my son who we have full-time and you would never know that my step-daughter and son weren't real siblings. My sister-in-law also found her true love over the internet too. I don't understand why people think you've less likely to be lied to in person than over the net. Just make sure you get a good picture of them and like them for who they are.
Reply:are u single if so let's go out my address is malikyo21@yahoo.com
Reply:i would never date online
Reply:never do it! it can cause some much trouble in your life!!!
Reply:Nothing yet for me. I wasted a lot of time on match.com and yahoo personals that I got so disgusted that I dropped out for a while. The problem with those sites is that they make people pay in order to access email. So even if you pay and have access to email, it doesn't mean that the other person can respond to you.





I have since found http://www.okcupid.com which is 100% totally free and everyone has email. I still haven't found the right one, but I'm making a whole lot more contacts than I ever did on the pay sites. Not only that, but okcupid.com is much safer because everyone has to take their online psych test. Bad people can lie on their written profiles, but they have a much harder time fooling a psych test. The pay sites don't even have that feature.
Reply:I was speaking to a bunch of people on line. One guy I started talking to often, on line, on phone... went on for about 3 months. We finally decide to meet. OH MY God.. I was so nervous. I never had more butterflies in my stomach. He was driving a couple of hours to see me so I was hoping we got along and that everything went ok. Finally he got here. At first, it was really awkward. This voice I had been hearing on the phone was real. It seemed really strange. But then again I really felt like I knew him because all we did was talk and write. I did not feel scared at all.





Needless to say, that was almost 2 years ago. We have been dating ever since. Doing the long distance relationship thing, but very shortly moving together. I still to this day, get butterflies when I am about to see him.. Worked out great for me, but still everybody needs to be careful when meeting somebody on line. There are crazy people everywhere.
Reply:I have wondered that as well. I don't think i could ever trust a stranger from online.
Reply:chatting online and meeting someone in person is completely different and awkward. even with pictures, you develop an expectation of what the person will be like. i think it's seldom we're happily surprised. it did get weird when i tried online dating. the guys weren't what they said they were. the relationship pretty much died after meeting.