in this day and age of internet useage and availability, i am just kind of curious how many people here have met their current (or past) significant other online.

personally, the girl i am seeing was a friend of some friends of mine. however, the first time we had any contact was internet related. but, we ended up talking for hours the first time we were together in real life and now the internet contact is a distant memory.

Surely there's no one here at VB who's taken such a radical approach to love. :shy:

Everyone on this board probably knows I'll be the first to jump in here and say "It works, it works!!" :vebo: :vebo:

Actually, in all honesty, I was always VERY skeptical (and still AM!!) of those Internet Dating sites where you sign up with your profile and people look through them and all, I think those are HORRIBLE! (Sorry, if they work for you, that's great, I just think for me they'd be degrading and humiliating!)

However, skeptical as I was about people on the internet in general, meeting someone new, MEN... ALL of that, I was lucky enough to actually meet someone here on VB and it's worked out VERY WELL!

Just saw IamJen's post! I love it!:pibo:

Everyone on this board probably knows I'll be the first to jump in here and say "It works, it works!!" :vebo: :vebo:

Actually, in all honesty, I was always VERY skeptical (and still AM!!) of those Internet Dating sites where you sign up with your profile and people look through them and all, I think those are HORRIBLE! (Sorry, if they work for you, that's great, I just think for me they'd be degrading and humiliating!)

However, skeptical as I was about people on the internet in general, meeting someone new, MEN... ALL of that, I was lucky enough to actually meet someone here on VB and it's worked out VERY WELL!

oh, i suppose i was thinking more along the lines of people who have met on message boards/myspace, as opposed to those that have met on say match.com. but, i guess either/or will work for the purposes of this thread.

I think that if you meet through a community for people with shared interests, and it is approached with caution, it can work. I met my husband online. Here's how it went:

In 2004, I started considering joining a particular tour group to Japan. A messageboard I frequented had a thread about that particular company, so I read up on other peoples' experiences and was reassured, and I decided to join that tour group for a trip in late March. I posted in the thread that I would be going on the trip, and another member of the board was going on the same trip. I had posted that I was concerned about finding vegan food while on the tour, and he offered to accompany me should I need to temporarily leave the group to go to a different restaurant or something, so I wouldn't have to go alone. We started communicating via PM and IM, figuring it would be good to have a friend on the trip. We hit it off, and met a couple of months prior to the trip in a group setting. (Some local folks from that same messageboard were having an outing to a Japanese bookstore and restaurant.) I took my best friend as a "chaperone". The in-person experience went well, so we started dating. We saw each other every weekend, taking turns driving back and forth between Atlanta, GA and Huntsville, AL. In late March/early April we went on the trip to Japan with the tour group and had a great time together. When we got back, we continued seeing each other every weekend, and in December 2005 we got married!

:)

I had a two year, long distance relationship with a guy I met in an online game. Was fine while it lasted.

in this day and age of internet useage and availability, i am just kind of curious how many people here have met their current (or past) significant other online.

:hi:
on this very board, in fact.

Surely there's no one here at VB who's taken such a radical approach to love. :shy:

Ummmmm.... yeah. :) :smitten: for Tofu-N-Sprouts. :)

:hi:
on this very board, in fact.

:eek: who?

I met my current boyfriend of 2 years from an online dating site.

i met my boyfriend of a year+ at a message board.

hes perfect for me.

I've never dated anybody I met online. Made lots of in-person friends out of them though! Of course, at most points, I've been involved with somebody else who I had met through other aspects of my life. I don't think I'd rule it out though...as I've met some of the most amazing people ever through this site!

I didn't exactly meet my boyfriend online, but we wouldn't have met without the internet. We both went to a workshop that was organised through production art forums we're both members of. The site was huge and we'd never had any contact before, but one guy I was rooming with had been online compatriots of my then future-boyfriend and we met through my roommate.

I kinda thought he was cute and nice at the time, but it was only after on the internet that we got really into it. He's come here twice and I'm going up in April, but it's extremely tough. We're planning so that one of us will immigrate after we graduate (later this year), but who knows how things will go?

I met my boyfriend on an online game. There's advantages and disadvantages to it, like most things, but it works for me because I'm antisocial and introverted. I sortof had an online bf when I was in high school, but we only saw each other once and then I was grounded from the internet until I went to college. We still talked though, and we still talk on aim every once and awhile now.

i met my husband about 7 years ago online. he was in minnesota on an extended vacation from jamaica. we met married a year later. he ended up staying in minnesota. he's been helping me raise my daughter ever since. i took all of the proper precautions when we met. meeting in a public place, having people know where i was etc.

yes, and its been almost 3 years :love:

portland VB gatherings, fool, WHAT?

ebola

I've met guys online but I've never had a relationship with one that lasted any amount of time. Not from dating sites either.
All of the serious relationships (including the one now) were men I met either at school or through friends.

I've not had a serious relationship with a man that I met online, but had the situation been different I would quite likely have had a relationship with one of my VB friends. We actually did meet (albeit briefly) last summer, and were it not for the thousands of miles and large ocean in the way, I would definitely try to have a relationship with him.

Well, I met my fiancee Online about 5-6 years ago. We talked on and off for about a year and a half, then found out that we lived a couple streets away from each other. Crazy stuff. We started to date about a week later. A little more than two years went by and then I asked her to marry me. She said yes. Now we have been engaged for over a year, and been together, relationship-wise, for 4 years, come this August.

<still waiting for that momentous event>

as well as

<I'm proof it doesn't work well...for me>

but both of those are very long stories, and now I'm what some men would consider as "flawed" or incapable of maintaining a relationship because I have a *gasp* daughter (aka...responsibilities!)

*mumbles incoherently*....

the good thing is that I'm ok with not having a relationship. I'm a bit distraught that I am forced to live with my mom right now due to several factors (one being the great economy of the present time)....

maybe I'm just another aspiringly lazy real estate agent in the making....*_*

who knows.

But that would make me lots o money ^_^ which would mean a place for me and my daughter to rest our heads without my mom nagging me into the ground.

I have. I mean its not the big of a deal! it just helps you met that someone right and you get to know them for them instead of looks!