love via the internet

[Sheridan]

so do you think it is possible to find love via the internet? there are loads of websites nowadays that fix people up like match.com or eharmony.com. and there are classifieds on craigslist and others I probably don't know about. so, is the internet the next branch to dating? or is it where weirdos and pedophiles lurk? would you ever go out with someone that you met via an internet dating site?

[Loz]

my last girlfriend I met on the internet

I also believe someone else on here found love and marriage via the internet (names changed to protect the innocent)

[bencodec]

between my odd set of interests and my total lack of spare time i find it hard to imagine i'm gonna meet someone i have anything in common with anywhere else. not sure i think dating sites work, but i think the idea makes sense.

[nerkul]

since high school i haven't met anyone i didn't know online first. lovely ladyfriends included. wouldn't use those 'dating' sites - i'm too cynical - but i'm told that if you can suspend your disbelief for long enough they work well.

[Hertz]

@bencodec, think a lot of lives look like that nowadays, including my own.
I've also met loads of nice people online. No romance tho but eventually I probably will.

[wheezer]

I know it's possible. A good friend of mine from Munich, whom I also met via Internet, was living in Munich and surfing flyer sites years ago, when he came across a like-minded flyer collector.

They started chatting and it turned out that she lived in Sao Paulo - they continued to keep contact until finally he flew over to meet her, shortly thereafter she flew over to see him, they got married and have lived happily ever after.

The End.

[Ladytron]

that is so lovely, wheezer

my last relationship was long distance one. we met via internet. he lives in Munich. it last year and a half. we broke up even we loved eachoter a lot and after 2 years pause he is trying to enter my live again now...

to be continued

[djerome]

all ages are actively dating through the internet. people seem to prefer online personals than the bar scene. middle aged, senior citizens and young people. there's a bit of generation gap of people who grew up on IM and internet chats but it's there. its what happens outside the computer that counts though. ive met a few friends from the net and gonna meet some more next summer ! !! !

[darrell]

Originally posted by nerkul
since high school i haven't met anyone i didn't know online first.


NO can that be true ???

[karitek]

my boyfriend and I sorta met through a nyc electronic music discussion group. He emailed my friend steve because he saw that they went to the same uni (from his email address on the group). And steve, who was leaving to go traveling, passed him email to me when I said I wanted to meet more people into techno. Eventually we met up, hit it off, and became best friends, etc. the funny thing is that it wasn’t til 4 years later that steve and joe actually met in person.

[Will O The Wisp]

I've met lots of my good friends via web. In fact I couldn't meet them in other ways - they're from different cites, countries..

There's also one very special girl I met through this forum, right Aneta ? : )

[roberta_hood]

Originally posted by Will O The Wisp
I've met lots of my good friends via web. In fact I couldn't meet them in other ways - they're from different cites, countries..
...

me, too
and and my "big love" goinz! : )
met him the first time on the blue nf-board...

[...valta...]

how nice... :)

[decadnids]

well meeting someone online is no more risky than randomly picking someone up in a club you dont know.

[Lara]

I met my boyfriend on the internet... what Ben's saying is definitely true... Text can have it's own charms but there's no substitute for the real person

[Will O The Wisp]

Originally posted by Lara
Text can have it's own charms but there's no substitute for the real person


true, true... It;s really pain in the ass when you have no free time and you;re light years from the person you like...

[animal night train]

I first bumped into my current gf in the Techno mixes room on soulseek (a p2p file sharing application originally focussed on electronic music, not dating site, for anyone unfamiliar with the name).

She's Spanish and was living in Edinburgh at the time. This was before Sonar last year. As several people in the room were going to Sonar she gave me her number in BCN but I never called it. I stopped using the slsk chat after a while.

Summer this year, her slsk user name popped up on little detroit in a thread for a night in Manchester that I was playing at. So I messaged her and we met up before the party. Got on really well. Very well in fact, hur hur.

2.5 weeks later she moved down to London, and we've been together 4 months now.

I think that most of my friends I've met either through the internet or because of someone I met that way. I've still got all my old friends from before but that group is still the same small group of heads. If I go out these days I can look across the dancefloor and I doubt I'd know the names of more than one or two people if it weren't for the internet. In fact, I'd probably not be there anyway.

Even my flatmates - I live with a couple, the male half of which I met after we were arguing the same points on the Axis discussion board some years ago. I'm best man at his wedding next year.

I was also witness to another friend's (who I met via Overload) marriage earlier this year to a girl he met at ATP last year, through a guy we know through the internet. He messaged me back on Overload when he realised where I was from - turns out his older sister used to be best mates with my younger sister at school.

[Ladytron]

i start going on those slsk music chat rooms (tmt, basterdized, booty, erutufon) couple of months ago and i've already met great ppl there. i even met a hottie but he is younger than me

:-)

[Daddys Girl]

a girlfriend I went to college with met her boyfriend via the internet... I'll admit when she first told me about the relationship I was sceptical - he lives in the states, and she's in london - couldn't see it lasting. she's still with him now, and although they can't really 'go out' that often, they still make an extreme effort - he was over here a few weeks ago, and before that, she made a trip out to the states to be with him too.

them lasting the distance (in every sence of the word) changed my views a bit on the whole internet/meeting thing - so much so that I've been there myself. I didn't go through dating sites - it was more of another common interest thing that went somewhere else. not actually resulted in love, but fun all the same. I agree with what decadnids said above - tried explaining that to people close to me, (who seem to think I've been mad) who I suppose deal me the same scepticisim I once delt to my girlfriend....

[Yer_Maw]

my mate met his fiance through the internet. the moved in together in scotland and stuff and she was really really nice. unfortunatly after about 4 years of trying to get a visa to live in the US they had to give up and then split up, mostly as a result of that and being apart and stuff. so the bottom line was, she wasnt a mad loon.

on the flipside this guy i went to uni with had a 16 year old little siter that ran off with an old man and hasnt been seen since. pretty bad situation actually.

so i suppose its no different from real life, theres loons/weirdos and really nice folk everywhere.

[sensymilia]

Originally posted by Will O The Wisp


There's also one very special girl I met through this forum, right Aneta ? : )

You have absolute right :) hugs'n'kisses

[GodDog]

I met Tania on this message board, and im still with her. what does that say?

[nico]

Originally posted by GodDog
I met Tania on this message board, and im still with her. what does that say?

nothing...met my last gf on this board, too, but we´re going different ways now

[GodDog]

y?

[nico]

y

[GodDog]

why are yoou going differenet wayz?

[nico]

that´s not sth. i can tell in only some sentences....

[GodDog]

fine dont say then

[nico]

what´s the problem ? it´s one thing to post a sentence, but i don´t have to post the whole fuckin´ story here, or ?

[Sheridan]

just say irreconcilable differences.
all the stars in hollywood use that excuse to get a divorce.

[nico]

lol

[GodDog]

was it you were a weirdo nico?

[GodDog]

who was it?

[scott confusion]

the internet for me is a cool way of keeping intouch with friends who maybe live a long distance away or round the corner but dont get top bump into each other that often.. i think im very wary about getting to involved with relationships on the internet, unless i have met the person first... but what do i know i only just got hooked up on the net about 3 months ago so theres still time left.

[JonnySpeed]

I've met a few people through boards, all not more than once.

Girls? too shy for that!

[djerome]

Originally posted by Ladytron
i start going on those slsk music chat rooms (tmt, basterdized, booty, erutufon) couple of months ago and i've already met great ppl there. i even met a hottie but he is younger than me

:-)

thanks ladytron, i enjoyed the compliment :-)

[V Knid esq]

I met lots of people through boards, including my wife. Nothing wrong with it at all as long as its not a substitute for real world interaction (unless you're a quadraplegic or a head in a jar or something, then it's fair enough to live your life online).