People you've met in person can stalk you, kill you, etc. Remember, the person you're most likely to be killed by is your significant other. The majority of rape victims are raped by someone they know. And I get the impression most altar boys know their priests too.
I've gone to a lot of summer programs the last few years and met a lot of people. Even though our contact is now exclusively online, the typical assumption would be to trust me because we've met in person. Yet if I were even a bit malicious, ruining their lives would be so easy. All you need is a last name and a city; whitepages.com will do the rest. The Internet's not really any more dangerous than meeting in person.
well i think everyone has an opinion so im gonna tell ya mine. i met a guy on the internet named Daniel Christopher. I thought he was the sweetest thing in the world. Then I did something i have never done. I feel in love. I know I know...you think im crazy, well maybe I am but I do know what love is and i did fall in love with him. Well I am still with him, we have been together for 2 years. We argue like any other couple...who doesnt. We also are always there for one another. I am moving after I graduate so that we can be closer together. I cant wait to spend my time with him. Even if we dont stay together for the rest of our lives I wouldnt change anything I've done or said. I love him very much and I know some people have ran away with people from the internet and some have even gotten killed. I just think you really have to get to know the person and dont do anything stupid. The internet is a scary place sometimes but it can also be wonderful. Dont Be Stupid.
Yeah, meeting people online isn't the best way to meet people, but the reason people think it's always bad is because the bad stuff is what makes it to the media. On another message board, a girl and I were from the same place, so we talked online and swapped phone numbers, and now we're good friends. Once a friend of mine and I were talking to a guy online and we had a meet in his state, so we met him there and now we talk on the phone and everything. No one got hurt, and we've made some awesome friends. There's two sides to the coin, obviously, you can get hurt, someone could stalk you, but it hasn't happened to me yet
I'm not so sure about internet dating, I've never tried it but it could work i guess,I have some people I've met in chatrooms who'd I consider good friends, some of them I've even called, and would definately try to meet if i ever visited near them. so i guess there's no reason why you couldn't think of someone as more than just friends. But still it seems like it would be kinda hard to make that "special connection" with someone who is only a line of words. Of course I don't even date in person yet so wudda I know lol.
i think its ok buti'd be carefull and weiry of them untill i met them in person. plus if you do meet them and there who they say they are thats great!!! just be careful
when you talk with someone on the net, you don't know what your going to get.
meeting people online is fine for sme one to chat with, rant rave, or play pretend. but the novelty of it is that they don't kmow the truth. but that means neither do you. the police say it all the time DON"T MEET PEOPLE IF YOU DON"T KNOW WHO THEY Are
I agree with you guitarplayer1234, people shouldnt date a person they met online, 1st of all they dont know if what the person is saying is true, or if that person has any criminal record. there are a lot of people who have been killed by people they have dated online, but dispite what people keep hearing about people being murdered because of people they have dated online others keep doing it! its pathetic, does it have 2 happen 2 them 4 them to learn?
Internet dating is very dangerous. You never know you could be a normal 15 year old thinking that you are talking to another normal teenager and really be talking to a 40 year old insane person. If you do decide to date people on the internet don't ever meet them in person. That's all I have to say!!!!!
Well i was in a chat one night, it was late. Well...the convo got a lil steamy. Anyway, so i meet this guy and he im's me the next day, right. And i'm making up all these lies or something and he says "Well Warren(MICH) isnt that far from Port Huron i could drive up there when i get my licensce. And i agreed with it, but this was last summer and he couldnt come til Feb. but i luckily changed my mind. He hasn't emailed me back since school started so I got kinda freaked out like what if he was a freak and didnt want to waste his time on me? But ya know what can i do?
I personally do think think people should date over the internet. That's just setting themselves up for trouble. How do you know you're dealing with a sick, pathologically lying stalker? You don't. The only thing you know about them is what they claim, why would someone be stupid like that? But anyways, I think it's good to meet/make new friends over the internet but actually meeting them is taking it a step too far. Most people you meet on the internet are not bad, but there are always the small percentage who are. Do the safe thing and don't meet people. It might cost you your life!
Okay, I think it is alright to meet people over the internet. If yu are smart enough to log on ad chat and meet somebody you should be smart enough to not go out and meet somebody you do not knw. Plus we have limits. If your parents didn't want you to meet somebody they wouldn't let you have aim. It is your knowledge of saftey. And if you don't have knowledge o saftey on internet. Stay off of it.
I would never meet anyone from over the internet. Because it is seriously dangerous and it is not good.Meeting someone in person from the get go is best. And also there is all types of freaks out there, so people should be careful
I would tottally hook up with someone I met offline, if I had talked to them quite a few times, and began to trust them. And if your going to meet someone you met online, just meet in a public place, and never get into that person's car. Internet dating can be safe, if you just play it safe. Besides with the sinero they gave... about the chat room, and livin in the same city... you never know, it might be someone you know... like that goes to your school.
unfortunentally I have first hand knowledge of this- my brother met a girl online- two months later he moved to canada and married her after meeting her in person only once. We told him all the problems he would encounter, but he wouldn't listen. Before he left he had been on medications to stabilize his mood swings- he couldn't get the prescriptions refilled in canada and has gone withought them for a while now. Not too long ago his wife called us- she was crying because nomatter what she said to him he wouldn't say anything, and haden't said anything for a few hours. Unfortunentally she also has some mood problems, but at least can still get her medications since she has always lived in canada. My mom finally gave up trying to reason with him and said " oh well, they should be happy- they're both crazy " things have gotten a little better recently, but he still has a ton of problems- the ones we told him he would have. at least we didn't say " I told you so"
Give me a break what do u mean Dating tell me this how do u date online? I mean It is cool to be friends and meet people but I dont think it is right to date...there is no reason to. Maybe to some people they think
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Sometimes I wonder about these people I mean U can get hurt that way... So many girls wonder how the these people find them and this is how dating online...
Nah, the online dating thing doesn't appeal a bunch to me. Not to really discourage anybody who really wants to meet their online pal in person, just be careful, ya know? There's no way to be 100% sure, no matter how great they seem online.
Its all fine and good to hookup over the internet but you should really check the person out first and make sure that they arnt a pervert or a rapest or and killer or anything like that and make sure that they are cool. then if everything is cool you could meet them in person!
I really don't have a problem with it. If you and and that person have a lot in common and enjoy talking to each other, who am I to judge. If you were to meet though, I wouldn't go by myself I would bring a few friends. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable doing on my own.
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