Haha meeting in a place where many other people are would be recommendable I suppose.

 

Let us know how it went if you do decide to go.;)

I think it's okay,these days online dating is getting very popular,just need to get around the way of thinking that it is desperate!

Hey, just wanted to know your opinion about people getting to know each other through the internet. A friend of mine registered on a website of singles and I registered, too, just for fun - and one guy actually started talking to me, he's really nice and it seems like we have a lot in common.

 

We've been talking for just 4 days now and he already talks about meeting in the future - tomorrow, there's a huge music festival in Vienna for free and we both go there and he suggested to meet.. This is all a bit too fast and it's just SO embarrassing - because in my circle of friends and my family, everyone makes fun of meeting people you found on the web..

 

What do you think?

Well, you know, 4 days is not much. What if he's a maniac or a killer?... :uhoh2:

 

I would meet someone from the net in real life only if I really liked this person and after at least few months, not days. But that's my opinion. Anyway, be aware and good luck :shy:

Yeah 4 days is a bit too quick in my opinion, like you don't even know him well enough. You should probably give it a month of two, or a few months before you meet up, get to know him better etc.

 

But I think this internet love could possibly work. I have a friend(Malaysia) who met her current bf on a dating website, the guy is from the US. They have been talking for 18 months before the guy decided to come down two weeks back. And he did come down, and stayed here for two weeks and everything went well. They were both really enjoying their time together etc..I'm not sure if you could consider this as "the internet relationship does work", but it's not impossible.

Yeah I also agree with the fact that 4 days is certainly not enough,at least a month would be a lot better!!

in my opinion, nothing can be for sure, fair dinkum when you are talking to people on the internet, on the net you perceive things differently when you can see their body language, tone of voice, way they present themselves. also talking to people on the net is very overdramatised, say you have a fight wth someone- its worse then it actually would be in real life.

 

on the upside, people open up more when they arent faced with face to face confrontation and you may learn a bit more about them that you wouldnt know from face value. its also a great way to catch up, and talk to people who live long distances away. alot of people on here appear genuine which is why i like coming here so often :P

Thanks a lot to all of you for replying! Even before I read your posts saying it's too quick, I called off last evening, telling him it's too fast. He was quite upset and annoying ^^ Well, you know.. I'd be embarrassed of telling someone that I met my boyfriend on the web, you know.. But I think he seems a bit gay anyway, so he'd be a potential "gay best friend" and nothing romantic ;)

 

Anyway, I asked him to give me more time, maybe I'll never meet him, maybe I'll meet him in a few weeks, I don't know..

 

Meeting someone on the web isn't wrong or anything - I met my wonderful, best friend Joana on a Rufus Wainwright message board and we've been talking regularly for 15 months now and we've seen each other last summer and I'm gonna spend 10 days at her house in Portugal this summer :D I love her to death and I definitely thank the web for meeting someone this special!!

 

Again, thanks to everyone for replying, I think you're all right and I made the right decision with calling off the date.

 

Don't remember who said it, but one of you said "Seems like he's the one to be desperate" - I guess that's true :P I'm not desperate, I still dream of the situation of me meeting a guy IN PERSON and falling in love with him.. I don't want it to happen this way :)