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Topic: How well do you know people here?
MariahsFantasy Joined Mon 11/28/11 Posts: 6593	Mon 02/27/12 11:34 AM
Being honest I don't think I have very many friends on here, yet I feel like I know several people from there posts in the forums if that makes sense. You were my friend the second you said you like Coldplay.

Chloe23Irish Joined Sun 01/01/12 Posts: 717	Mon 02/27/12 11:38 AM
Being honest I don't think I have very many friends on here, yet I feel like I know several people from there posts in the forums if that makes sense. You were my friend the second you said you like Coldplay. aww thanks I seriously LOVE Coldplay

MultipleDichotomies Joined Fri 02/17/12 Posts: 81	Mon 02/27/12 12:33 PM
I've been chatting on the internet for...geesh...fifteen years? All the way back to the usenet days. I've made a lot of strong acquaintances that way, and even met a few in real life. Among those I've met in real life, I'd say one in ten were fakes. I think they just wanted to present a better version of themselves than what was true. A lot of my online friends - all of them female - were taken by someone we all thought we knew, entirely based on their online presence. I've learned a lot from that. I prefer to relegate my monkey-sphere abilities to those in meatspace, but I think the internet is a great ice breaker. It is an excellent method of communicating, and a fairly safe way to exchange information. It allows for the basic introduction to be made, but that is about it. It's like looking for a house; how many times did a house look great online, only to find out in 3D it is not at all what you expected? I actually ended up buying a house that was on the bottom of my list, based on online pictures and "tours", because when I physically saw the actual house, the floor plan made sense and the house was wonderful.

MariahsFantasy Joined Mon 11/28/11 Posts: 6593	Mon 02/27/12 03:04 PM Edited by MariahsFantasy on Mon 02/27/12 03:05 PM
Being honest I don't think I have very many friends on here, yet I feel like I know several people from there posts in the forums if that makes sense. You were my friend the second you said you like Coldplay. aww thanks I seriously LOVE Coldplay Chris Martin is soooo dreamy. Like totally

OIF_Chef Joined Mon 12/26/11 Posts: 541	Mon 02/27/12 03:40 PM
I hate Coldplay, but you seem like good people.

newarkjw Joined Sun 05/25/08 Posts: 17172	Mon 02/27/12 03:44 PM
I hate Coldplay, but you seem like good people. Bunch of whiney azz brothers........

krupa Joined Thu 07/03/08 Posts: 18651	Mon 02/27/12 04:07 PM
I keep it simple and just think of my fellow mingletards as "cool" till I am Proven wrong. I try to bear in mind "good day/bad day"....but, when the bad days out weigh the good...I leave em alone. Let some other poor sucker deal with their crap. I have only physically met 2 who were obnoxious in real life but rainbows and sunshine on line. The rest were cool. I am just as obnoxious in real life as I am here. :)

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Mon 02/27/12 04:18 PM
I know who you are and I saw what you did.

42BlackBBW Joined Mon 09/12/11 Posts: 3243	Mon 02/27/12 04:24 PM
I haven't really been on here long enough to say that I 'know' anyone but there's a few that I like, that have reached out with a friendly email and whose opinions/comments I share.

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Mon 02/27/12 04:29 PM
I know who you are and I saw what you did. You promised you wouldn't tell!!!!

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Mon 02/27/12 04:33 PM
The more time you spend with ANYone, the better you are going to know them. This means we know a lot of people VERY well on Mingle2. Met a dozen or so in person. Tricked, twice. So, yeah, until you meet a 'friend' in person, they are only words. And all one can do is hope that what you think is real, is. Soliciting is against forum rules. Advertising for business or other income ditto. You are a mod. You've ought to know better.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Mon 02/27/12 04:35 PM
Do you think you can get to know people well by talking in the forums? Are there people in the forums that you've never talked to outside of the forums that you feel you know? Or, do you feel contact outside of the forums is needed to establish friendship? I think if you're here long enough you can get a pretty good feel of who people are. But RL contact is needed to truly know people. Most of the people on the forums, I would love to meet, there are a few that I don't care for, not even on the forums. But the same is true in RL for me as well.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32402	Mon 02/27/12 04:35 PM
I know who you are and I saw what you did. You promised you wouldn't tell!!!!

BettyB Joined Tue 01/29/08 Posts: 31912	Mon 02/27/12 04:41 PM
Do you think you can get to know people well by talking in the forums? Are there people in the forums that you've never talked to outside of the forums that you feel you know? Or, do you feel contact outside of the forums is needed to establish friendship? I think if you're here long enough you can get a pretty good feel of who people are. But RL contact is needed to truly know people. Most of the people on the forums, I would love to meet, there are a few that I don't care for, not even on the forums. But the same is true in RL for me as well. Sometimes even with real life contact you still don't really know them. It happened to me, I met a man on here and was with him for 6mos.before I found out he lied about being a widower and was actually still married. He obviously was not the sweet honest man I thought I knew.

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Mon 02/27/12 04:42 PM
Do you think you can get to know people well by talking in the forums? Are there people in the forums that you've never talked to outside of the forums that you feel you know? Or, do you feel contact outside of the forums is needed to establish friendship? I think if you're here long enough you can get a pretty good feel of who people are. But RL contact is needed to truly know people. Most of the people on the forums, I would love to meet, there are a few that I don't care for, not even on the forums. But the same is true in RL for me as well.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Mon 02/27/12 04:45 PM
Do you think you can get to know people well by talking in the forums? Are there people in the forums that you've never talked to outside of the forums that you feel you know? Or, do you feel contact outside of the forums is needed to establish friendship? I think if you're here long enough you can get a pretty good feel of who people are. But RL contact is needed to truly know people. Most of the people on the forums, I would love to meet, there are a few that I don't care for, not even on the forums. But the same is true in RL for me as well. You know you're one I would love to meet.

wux Joined Wed 07/29/09 Posts: 7426	Mon 02/27/12 04:45 PM
The more time you spend with ANYone, the better you are going to know them. This means we know a lot of people VERY well on Mingle2. Met a dozen or so in person. Tricked, twice. So, yeah, until you meet a 'friend' in person, they are only words. And all one can do is hope that what you think is real, is. Soliciting is against forum rules. Advertising for business or other income ditto. You are a mod. You've ought to know better. Do they get capes and utility belts? The trick-turners... they do it under the belt. Then they boast to each other how many they got under their belt.

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Mon 02/27/12 04:49 PM
Do you think you can get to know people well by talking in the forums? Are there people in the forums that you've never talked to outside of the forums that you feel you know? Or, do you feel contact outside of the forums is needed to establish friendship? I think if you're here long enough you can get a pretty good feel of who people are. But RL contact is needed to truly know people. Most of the people on the forums, I would love to meet, there are a few that I don't care for, not even on the forums. But the same is true in RL for me as well. You know you're one I would love to meet. Same here hun!!

soufiehere Joined Sat 10/24/09 Posts: 45397	Mon 02/27/12 05:05 PM
Soliciting is against forum rules. Advertising for business or other income ditto. You are a mod. You've ought to know better. It was Halloween. And I donated the $1.60 to charity.

manOfewwords Joined Wed 10/22/08 Posts: 29908	Mon 02/27/12 05:23 PM
Soliciting is against forum rules. Advertising for business or other income ditto. You are a mod. You've ought to know better. It was Halloween. And I donated the $1.60 to charity. WHAT?? ...well I never got it