Ever met an online friend in person?

Sunny

Sunny

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I have, several times. Occasionally, we've gotten together when traveling through each other's locations, and in one case, a whole group of us met every year for an annual get-together. They came from all over the country.

Looking back, it's been interesting to learn which people are exactly like they come across in these forums, and some are surprisingly different. One guy in our annual group seemed a bit eccentric online, but turned out to be a real nut case. He ended up in prison. Some turned out to be lovely people. Some, whom I had liked a lot online, turned out to be mildly annoying in person. Two couples met in our forum (it was not a dating forum, it was a fan club for a TV show), and eventually married or moved in together.

I wonder what experiences other people have had with online friendships.
 

I really meant to put this under General Discussions. Can it be moved up there? It doesn't belong in this category.
 
Yes I have. I met one lovely lady from Scotland who came to visit me. She was exactly as she was online and we both had a really good time.
Another women I met from Canada and she was just as she was online. Her and her husband came to visit with us and we both had a great time.

I’m very careful about the people I meet and accept into my life and I had no regrets with these two friends.
One woman became a very good friend to me.
 

Oh yes, a whole bunch of us from another forum used to meet up every year for a whole day of lunch and shopping at the coast in the summer.

I've even met different people from the same forum in Spain...
 
No, but I've always wanted to. I've wondered what some are like in real life, but I guess I'm too far off the beaten path.
I'm jealous to hear of so many good friends and meeting of lunch and stuff.

If any of you are ever in the blue ridge mountains on the trail of the lonesome pines, let me know, I'd love to meet you.
 
One friend that I made on my TV fan club forum was a retired teacher who lived in Florida. She was an expert quilter. She and her boyfriend came to visit us for a few days, and she brought me a marvelous gift, two beautiful potholders which were little quilts. Most of the squares represented something in my life that she knew about, such as my dog and the WA state flowers that I loved. (We lived in WA then.)

Sadly, she has passed away, but her potholders are proudly hanging on my kitchen wall. I tried adding a picture of them to this note, but it says, "Upload of file failed." Don't know why.
 
Lovely story Sunny, but sad about your friend. Maybe your picture was too large, I know people were complaining last week about being unable to upload pictures, I think Matrix addressed the problem.. try again I'd love to see them..
 
Yes, I have met many...One even drove down from Canada!! (Nova Scotia)..On another occasion, 6 of us met up for lunch..
 
Sunny said:
One friend that I made on my TV fan club forum was a retired teacher who lived in Florida. She was an expert quilter. She and her boyfriend came to visit us for a few days, and she brought me a marvelous gift, two beautiful potholders which were little quilts. Most of the squares represented something in my life that she knew about, such as my dog and the WA state flowers that I loved. (We lived in WA then.)

Sadly, she has passed away, but her potholders are proudly hanging on my kitchen wall. I tried adding a picture of them to this note, but it says, "Upload of file failed." Don't know why.
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Thats such a sweet story Sunny.
Try reducing the size of your picture some like hollydolly mentions . I’ve got to do that with most of my pictures and even ones which use to easily upload now need reducing even further. Not sure what that’s all about but if I reduce them enough they will work. I’d love to see the quilted potholders

hollydolly said:
Lovely story Sunny, but sad about your friend. Maybe your picture was too large, I know people were complaining last week about being unable to upload pictures, I think Matrix addressed the problem.. try again I'd love to see them..
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Yep! Good advice !
 
I've been trying, so far with no success. The file is only 2.4 MB, so it's probably not a size issue.
 
Sunny said:
I've been trying, so far with no success. The file is only 2.4 MB, so it's probably not a size issue.
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ONLY 2.4 MB ...... OMG girl... haha.... you’re killing me here.:playful:
Thats HUGE!!!!
Matrix says it can not be bigger than 1024 x 1024
OR 300 KB. That’s FAR from 2.4 MEGA BITES!!! :lofl:
 
I have corresponded with several people that I met on a forum, and even have a few as Facebook friends now; but the only one that I actually met in person was my dear friend, Ina (whom we sadly lost from this earth last December).
When Ina first joined this Senior’s forum, her son helped her through the registration process because she was such a novice of being online, and within a month or so of her being here, her son unexpectedly died, leaving her not only grieving, but also with no one to help her deal with her computer issues.

Then, her husband bought her an iPad, which neither one of them had a clue how to use, and since I was used to using an iPad, I offered to help her learn to use it.
This involved many months of phone calls, and then online iMessaging, once she learned how to do that.
Ina was SO proud when she learned how to take a picture with the ipad, and she sent it to me “so I could see who I had been talking to all of that time”.

By the end of that year, Ina’s husband had also passed away, and she was pretty much all alone in the world, so we chatted in one form or another just about every day.
She got an iPhone, and we moved into iPhone lessons, and even though she was not technologically inclined, Ina was courageous, and determined to learn how to use both devices.
And she did.

The next spring, she and her little dog, Izzy, drove from Houston to Huntsville to meet me, and we spent a happy week together visiting in person.
We always hoped that I would be able to get down to Texas and return the visit, but that part just never happened because it was hard for me to be gone that long from home.

We still continued to visit almost every day either online or she would call me on the phone, and Ina became one of my dearest friends in the whole world.
I was broken-hearted when she died last winter, and there still is not a day that goes by that I do not think of Ina, and want to share some little part of my life with her again.

Here is the picture that she first took using her new iPad and sent to me so that I could see her. I love this picture because you can see the happiness on her face here.
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