Are your internet friends Axe Murderers?

[AsIs]

It was fun getting to meet you kitty. One of my regrets from Yuricon was that I was so damn busy I didn't get to spend more time with you. [img]frown.gif[/img]

Hey Jace, Ghouls just wanna have fun! This one looks pretty harmless, but then, she IS a friend of Eris's. [img]wink.gif[/img]

[La Luna Unita]

Let's see... tyle got me started on this group when we were roommates, and through her I've met FB, Babybird, Ski, and my former fiancee (who is Ski's best friend).

Jely keeps threatening to visit, but no plans have been made yet.

tyle gave me a few funny looks when I accidentally called her tyle in real life, and that cured me pretty quick.

[RichC]

Though I've made plans a few times, they've always fallen through for one reason or another and I never have met any of my online friends.

[Exotic Ginger]

My husband is definitely not an online person either. I convinced him to post on the SiP forum awhile ago, just once. He protested, but people were talking about him and I thought it might be funny to get him to post his own repsonse. He did, whining the whole time, and never did it again. He still looks at me funny any time I talk about my online friends, and I always call them by their screennames too, even if I know their real names.

[Redlass]

Gem,

Maybe we should start a support group of Spouses with Offline Spouses.

'Course Redlord occasionally surprises me by showing up at the boards where I hang out. He even occasionally posts. Perhaps if he learned how to type, he'd post more often.

I actually got my screen name as a take-off on his, which has ended up being amusing considering I'm online a lot and he almost never is.

[erisesoteric]

I'm suddenly glad I met Dan here...

(And yes, Dan has a passing familiarity with JP, Jeff, *mumble* and other EA folks...)

(And yes, I have a passing familiarity with some of the people on *his* online groups, too)

[mjfrombuffalo]

Shoot, I think Hubby only knows where the computer is because I'm always sitting in front of it. He definitely doesn't know how to dial AT&T to connect to the Internet, much less get to the places I frequent.

[lynnzop]

Geez, I started this thing and never really said much, did I? [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

I've met a number of EA folks IRL. It's weird how you suddenly get this real, live person instead of just a person on a message board or chatroom...they have a face that moves [img]eek.gif[/img] , they have a voice...then after you meet them you can hear their voice when you read their posts.

I've never been disappointed with anyone I've met from online - they were pretty much what I'd grown to expect (and I was never let down!), and most have grown into what I'd consider "real life" friends.

I talk about the board members by their real names, however. I don't think hubby would quite understand if I kept referring to them by their online names. :laugh:

[Chaos Butterfly]

I already know Crystal Princess (an occasional lurker here) as I'm the one that got her addicted to SIP. And I've met 3Peanuts and Sarabiga IRL, it was really cool but we only got to hang out for 2 hours [img]frown.gif[/img] . I didn't actually know them very well at all before I met them, just a couple of e-mails to 3P before I went on holiday. It was funny because they knew what I looked like but I had no idea what they looked like. (My mother was more worried about me being kidnapped in Bangkok than me meeting total strangers in Italy, weird mother logic) But now we get on like a house on fire, must be all that good karma [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

And I hope to meet some of you if my travels take me nearby in the States and Canada in Sept/Oct.

Oh and in my 2nd ever e-mail to 3P before I went over I wrote PS. I am not an axe murderer. (I really did)

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 13, 2004 04:16 AM: Message edited by: Chaos Butterfly ]</font>

[erisesoteric]

Actually, no, he didn't.