If you have ever met anyone offline? How risky were the circumstances under which you met?

Answer 1

As your parents for permission first. Most probably they will lock you in your room and throw away the key.

Answer 2

yes, i've met a few.

personally, i tend to try and meet people face-to-face pretty quickly, because the person you meet in the flesh can be very different from the person you're talking to on-line. i think that mailing or IM with someone for months can build up expectations that make it harder to judge who the person is when you do finally meet them. if you've really liked someone for 6 months on-line, you'll have an investment in them *really* being a nice person - otherwise you'll have wasted all that time on them. so it's harder to *see* that they are really a jerk, or that you just plain don't get on very well.

i'd advise:
meet in a public place - and preferably somewhere there is no alcohol involved :)

make sure plenty people know where you are going, and don't let yourself be sucked into spontaneous plans. it's a first date, and there's plenty time to do that thing if you like him/her.

i usually get a friend to make an *unexpected* phone call about 30 mins after the start of the date, just to make sure that i'm ok. and i tell them 'yeah i'm just in such and such a coffee shop....' this also lets him know that a) you have friends/a life and b) people know where you are. and how he reacts to that gives you a clue as to what sort of person he is. it also gives you a get-out if you are uncomfortable 'sorry, gotta run, my dog's just been run over...' (sneaky huh?)

Answer 3

I have met a few people from chat rooms, going back a few years now when I was single. I was very careful and gave my friends a note of where I would be, who with, car reg numbers etc, I had no trouble. I also met a girl I became friendly with in a chat room. We became really good friends and I still see her now. The risks are enormous though and I would advise anybody to think twice before meeting a 'date'. The last man I met I am now engaged to. I think I was just very lucky.

Answer 4

I've met a few. One I'm still friends with. Met a couple of loser/psychoish/dumbasses....but there are some good guys. I've learned not to be so quick as to meet up right away. Talk for awhile online. Make sure you like who they are. Then meet somewhere very public or with a friend or invite them out to a place a group of your friends are going to. Makes things easy and safe.
I'm currently talking to someone online over a month but haven't met yet.

Answer 5

I've met a few in very public places. I considered the risk very low.

But once I met a guy from Norway (I'm in US). We talked online for about a year and he decided to move to US to go to the college I attended, so he flew over here and lived with my family. I guess that could have been risky because if he was a real jerk or something it would have been hard to get rid of him! But he was very nice and we dated for about a year and he decided he couldn't Americanize himself so he went back home.

Answer 6

i met my current boyfriend after speaking to him on msn for about a month. we met in a busy train station, where i knew there would be cctv,we went to busy pubs and when i got to realy like him i invited him home, but this was only after a while of meeting him, that was nearly a year ago, and i am the happiest i have ever been with anyone. good luck, you will never know if you dont go, be careful and stay aware, dont get drunk or anything!!!

Answer 7

Yes I have. I have been in a long term relationship which formed on the internet. I met this guy with my folks. I would never meet a guy on the net again. You cant know someone you talk to on the net.turned out he was a real looser.

Answer 8

Yes, and have enjoyed every minute of it. I still talk to people I have met years ago on-line. They turned out to be good friends, even when the relationship ended. Just meet in a pubic place and do not share information until you are completely sure that you trust them.

Answer 9

hey yes i have meet women from the internet and for the most part they went very well.
Sometimes you get the ones who like to decive and lie about things in their life.
Its easy to pretend to be something else when u have the cloak of the computer but u have to decide for yourself. Always trust your gut feeling its never been wrong for me, and when meeting for the first time do it in a public place then it takes some pressure off
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Answer 10

I often meet people in supermarkets or pubs. Sometimes I bump into folk at the bus stop or park.

The pub is perhaps the most risky place to meet people, because they are sometimes drunk and hard to understand.

Or the supermarket aisle with the kitchen knives, eh?

Answer 11

I met someone about 5 years ago, we met after talking for about 6 months and i had people with me when we met up. We've now been married for 18months, and very happy.