Meeting people over the internet

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Meeting people over the internet
Topic Started: Aug 20 2008, 09:10 AM (420 Views)
Sayf Udeen Ismael	Aug 20 2008, 09:10 AM Post #1
Posts: 3,224 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View "Middle Wing"	Is this world wide web of ours just another medium on which to meet people? Or should we be more cautious than ever of predictors who just want our bodies? What would it take for you to meet someone? Would you ever do it? I've never had the confidence to do it intentionally, but it's happened to me mistakenly on more than one occasion. Once at an Eid festival and again at an Islamic lecture. It was just as creepy both times. But a good way of pre-knowing someone and putting a face to a screen name. I call all three people I met this way friends. Personally, just be careful and if you trust them go for it. I feel you can see holes when someone is being fake and won't trust them.



Cobbsta	Aug 20 2008, 12:32 PM Post #2
Posts: 314 Group: Former Members Member #20 Joined: May 4, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Humanist	When I make friends on the net, I keep that relationship purely on a need to know basis.



zexxaar	Aug 20 2008, 12:47 PM Post #3
Posts: 893 Group: Members Member #151 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Gender Undisclosed	Well. I've met someone from the internet. Actually, oo er, we even go to the same school now. The thing about the internet is that you only know what someone wants to tell.



Don't-Ride-Stick	Aug 20 2008, 01:10 PM Post #4
Hasn't been laid in: 3 days. Posts: 19 Group: Members Member #165 Joined: Aug 20, 2008 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist Political View Feminazi	I never show my picture that for sure. As if I'm gonna let some horney guy serve himself over my picture.



Redneck	Aug 20 2008, 03:57 PM Post #5
Posts: 163 Group: Members Member #48 Joined: May 25, 2008 Gender Male Political View Liberal Facist	I've met a few people online, mostly people who work for competing agencies and what not. But I did meet a girl online and started a relationship with her.



Sing-The-Sorrow	Aug 23 2008, 01:22 PM Post #6
Posts: 175 Group: Members Member #91 Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Atheist	I have been in a relationship via the internet, and since met that person, as friends.. It's something you need to be cautious of however. Not everybody is who they really say, and its very hard to determine what a person really means if theyre only typing.



Deleted User	Aug 23 2008, 05:20 PM Post #7
Deleted User	I think it's fine, as long as you're cautious.
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Evocation	Aug 24 2008, 04:15 PM Post #8
Posts: 18 Group: Members Member #172 Joined: Aug 24, 2008 Gender Female Religious Views Atheist	I would never meet someone online. Mainly because most people act differently online and might be trying to groom you. I prefer to have my close friends, who I live by or know in reality.



Matthewsixteen	Aug 24 2008, 05:26 PM Post #9
Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #174 Joined: Aug 24, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Christian Political View Im sure GB has tried his best	My parents would advise against it, although recently my mum is trying to do just that.. id say just depends on the who what where why.



Sayf Udeen Ismael	Oct 27 2008, 10:10 AM Post #10
Posts: 3,224 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 2, 2008 Gender Male Religious Views Muslim Political View "Middle Wing"	81-year-old finds bride online AN 81-year-old Chinese man has proved age need not be a barrier to internet love, marrying a 58-year-old bride he met online, a local newspaper reported. Wu Jieqin, a retired Beijing art professor who has spent time in an aged-care home, married Jiang Xiaohui, 23 years younger, in a ceremony on the weekend, the Beijing News reported. "The internet doesn't belong to the young alone," he told the paper. He said he had been using the internet since 1998. "There are no rules against old people seeking love online." But to reach the altar, Mr Wu had to overcome the opposition of Ms Jiang's parents, aged 85 and 86, who feared he was too old. But she won them over. "His voice is very youthful. Not like an 80-year-old," Ms Jiang told the paper. "He's very romantic." The couple met after Mr Wu, lonely since his divorce a decade ago, put a lonely hearts notice on a Chinese website last year with the help of a student. Not that the feisty retiree with thin grey hair was not picky. "As internet mates of his own age did not suit him, he set his sights on a woman in her forties or fifties," the report said. Mr Wu said over 50 women responded positively to his ad, including prospects from the US, Australia and the Ukraine. Wu met several but things clicked only when with Ms Jiang, a retired railway worker from southwest China's Sichuan province. Mr Wu plans to move to Sichuan to be with his new bride. He likened their love to two well-meshed gears. "As long they up to scratch, they can keep turning forever, and you don't have to care whether they're old or new," he said. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24558697-23109,00.html



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