Then you decide to meet and it is like IKES!
2007-10-31 03:58:27 · 14 answers · asked by Melissa R 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Yes. Years ago, I entered my first Christian chat room at MSN chat. I met several ladies there, and we began drifting together for the purpose of prayer. We all began to notice that the room was getting very "snerted up" with professing/claiming pagans, wiccans, demonologists, and so forth. We also noticed the tendency on the part of many so-called "Christians" in that room, to try to "save" these people by hounding and pounding them..almost as if there were an ongoing, invisible race or contest to see who could save whom FIRST. We hated it. We found ourselves all desirous of leaving that room, and we went to another...but gradually it went the same route. So we all left. Through this all, one particular lady had caught my attention. It seemed that just as I thought something, so did she...just as I felt the urge to pray about something or someone, she'd feel it too....we laughed at how consistently the whispers were flying between the two of us, and saying exactly the same thing! We began emailing back and forth and over time, sharing info on family life, residences, hobbies, and so on...and the more we grew to know one another, the more we realized how alike, yet different, we were. The Holy Spirit convicted me early on that this woman was genuinely all about Christ, and searching for friends with whom she could pursue a real, thriving witness for Him. We began phoning each other. It's been more than ten years now. We've never physically met, because although plans were laid several times, last-minute things like illness prevented those plans from being realized. Now, we are "sisters" in Jesus, closer than blood. We phone back and forth, write back and forth, IM back and forth. Our family members all know one another well, we are all "comfy" talking with each other, and my husband got to go out where she lives to work for a couple of months and met her and her household. It's been "true sisterhood" every single step of the way, and God's made it abundantly clear that HE is the author of this sisterhood...and He has made sure that NOTHING..not even us having a disagreement!...can tear it up. Despite not having physically met yet, we are closer than many are to their closest family members, and our hearts are sold out to ministering to others, being prayer warriors, and standing proud for our Savior Jesus. I continue to pray that I'll be blessed with that "trip out to her place or hers to mine" so that we can carry forward our dreams of living close together and beginning a ministry that way. Until God grants that, I am proud to call her my best friend, and my true Sister. LOVE YOU SISSY!
2007-10-31 21:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I have been very fortunate. I have made a few good friends online !!! I have known them for a long time. Two of them I have known for six years !! I have two I have known for over a year now and a few new ones recently. I am only looking for friends. I'm not trying to find a husband or anything! I have plenty of friends for real but it doesn't hurt to have friends online too !!!! I would never meet anyone I met online !!!! With my luck they would be a serial killer !! lol
2007-10-31 15:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by Diana 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately YES. Long, long story - but I 'met' someone who was part of an online discussion forum and for months we communicated via email, on the site, and via phone. The 'connection' was phenomenal and we talked about everything under the sun and seemed so right for each other. I have to admit I began to develop 'feelings' ....and yes, we later met [after having exchanged pics too]. I was who I said I was...he, however, was someone else entirely [he had used a friend's pic and often his friend actually wrote the emails and his friend was who I spoke with on the phone]
SUCH deception - and WHY? He knew sooner or later I would find out!
He was NOTHING like I thought him to be or how he had presented himself...not in personality, looks, height, weight, intellect. Unfortunately, it soured me on internet connections and I shy away from giving out personal information and the like [with men]
2007-10-31 11:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Have the connections, but haven't actually met them. Here, I feel close to many, go out of my way to help in whatever means I can. WE seem to share so much in past experiences. It is easy to feel close to others who share common backgrounds, experiences, and life's lessons. But I must admit, every so often, someone comes along that is very special, and here I have found some that seem to fit me like a glove. Some even raise hell with me, and damn it, they are usually right! I hate it when others are right and I am wrong, don't you ? Peace and love, Phil
2007-10-31 13:20:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I've felt a connection with people over the internet before, then I realize my thing is stuck in the disk drive and reality sets it.
2007-10-31 11:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by 15fsg546rge1rrheljh45hjr90459ty3 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it was when I was a teen ager and it was over a walkie talkie. lol My sister was dating the guy across the street and he had a friend over. We somehow got to talking on the walkie talkie for a good while and he sounded real nice and cute. When we met he wasn't at all like his voice in looks or personality. Definitely a 'yikes'. lol
2007-10-31 15:40:34 · answer #6 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have, but only through computer. We have never met in person. He lives in Canada and I live in FL. He's getting married next year. He found me through my 360 page. That's how we chat. But nothing has come though other then chatting. And I am married, so I am very careful of what I say. Mainly he thinks I'm a religious nut! But that's ok. If I wasn't married and still single, I'd probably get together with him.
2007-10-31 14:38:09 · answer #7 · answered by deb2rule 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, Twin, you and I have already kidded about our uncanny connection and likeness in answers!
Also experienced the same CB thing as Roxy did many years ago. We finally all got together, and what a shock...only one or two of the people were what I had pictured in my mind, and a couple were......well, downright scary!
Speaking of scary, Happy Halloween everyone!!
2007-10-31 11:37:23 · answer #8 · answered by night-owl gracie 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Had a blind date once with someone who I had spoke to over the phone a couple of times and he was not at all what I expected and that was the end of that.
2007-10-31 15:49:33 · answer #9 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Makes you want to ask where the real person is, the one you've been talking to. I mean, they have to know you're going to see the difference almost immediately. Shoots their credibility right away.
2007-10-31 11:40:35 · answer #10 · answered by Lady G 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋