Met on the information highway

[dyvinesweetness]

So yesterday, during a rather hellacious commute home (omgwtf 1/2/3 trains?), I bumped into Steph. I was already traveling home with a co-worker, Alexie. We're all standing waiting for the train when Alexie says "so, where do you two know each other?" I smiled wide, turned to look at Steph and said, "where do we know each other from?!" LOL Steph

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[i_dreamed_i_was]

Lol, for some reason, this gets asked most often of me and kittylarock. We just do a whole embarrassed/jokey/dramatic "we met on the Internet!" She hasn't made a suit out of my skin yet, etc. There's a funny added layer for me because of WHERE I met most of my friends online. Blackfolk, lol.

[dyvinesweetness]

haha. My inclination is always to tell the truth. But I just have a few situations where I'm like "yeah, we're gonna skirt this one a bit." lol

[kittylarock]

Heheh...yeah I think we should keep ratcheting up the self-effacing answers. From "We met on a Babylon 5 chatroom" to "Oh...I was just trawling the Craiglist casual encounters section." That clothes swap was pretty funny when the 95% of the friends there happened to be folks from LJ. I wanted to tell my friend from work who was there "I swear they're all normal people! And I have non-interweb friends too!"

[i_dreamed_i_was]

YES!!! Something about a bacon fetish camsite or something.

[ambienceman]

years ago it was weird to disclose that, but nowadays with the popularity of social netoworks, and blogs, it's not really far fetched to admit and online introduction. Especially as friends. My mom knows I regularly physically meet people whom I first met online...so I guess it's not really an issue.

I think it would only be of seriousness when you're introducing someone you're dating, but even still... I only try to be vague if the presenter seems to have a pre-modern viewpoint about online introductions and safety and all that.

and many of my friends thought that about you and steph - hah

[dyvinesweetness]

"I only try to be vague if the presenter seems to have a pre-modern viewpoint about online introductions and safety and all that."

I initially read that as "pre-modem." lol I agree though. And I think I'ma start saying pre-modem to describe this from now on.

"and many of my friends thought that about you and steph - hah"

I knew it! 'Cause they would always ask me where he was at when I went out. I'm sitting up there like "how/why tf would I know?"

[moneda]

On NYE I went to a gathering at a friend's where this was asked. My reply is always, "through the internet." For that friend in particular it's a really common response so it got a lot of laughs, but for whoever it's true I have no qualms about saying so.

[donthurrycurry]

I'm nice and vague and I HATE when people (ok really only one person) is all, "such and such and I have known eachother for x years and we met on LIVEJOURNAAAALLLL" WTF is a livejournal to most people? It just sounds stupid. Whatever website is mentioned. I don't know why this annoys me so, although I've only really encountered it once or twice.

[donthurrycurry]

Elaborating- the scenario above happened at their child's birthday party surrounded by their much older ("pre modem") relatives 6 years down the line. I just think at a certain point "time served" supercedes internet meetings or at least a call for better judgement re: disclosure.

/uptight

[dyvinesweetness]

I definitely agree about "time served." Like Linda, for example, I have known for a gabillion years. I mean, she and Isis were at my mother's memorial. At some point the relationship goes way beyond "online/livejournal friend" status.

But even a lot of people who I haven't even met (yet) I still feel a close connection to. LJ connections to me have a much higher likelihood for intimacy because it's not like blackplanet or something. We're sharing details of our worlds here.

[a_f_r_i_k_a_n_a]

i'm always honest...most of the people i know off the internet i would have known some other kind of way anyway...