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Do you think meeting friends on the internet is good

Yes
3
21%
No
7
50%
Yes and No
4
29%
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By Boboff
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Whatever
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By Yudster
#280739
Oh my god they're back. They are SO back. Make it stop Console, please.....
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By Nicola_Red
#280741
I have met several people that I know via the net. Generally speaking it's a good place to find people if you're just after some fun, uncomplicated sex. But i also met someone on the net who's one of my best friends now. It is different from meeting people face to face...not worse necessarily, just different.
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By Vivienne
#280744
PLEASE be careful, N. Red!! your post worries me...
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By Yudster
#280747
nicola_red wrote:I have met several people that I know via the net. Generally speaking it's a good place to find people if you're just after some fun, uncomplicated sex.


I think Nicola may need an increase in capacity in her PM inbox......!
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By DemonHorse
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dave-tricks wrote:two of who loose....i told billabong bout this forum becouse you can hav a good convo here....people like you are here to wreak the fun


Oh wow, if only you had a mirror....
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By Nicola_Red
#280757
Viv wrote:PLEASE be careful, N. Red!! your post worries me...


why? I'm an adult, I know how to be safe inasmuch as one can be (meet people for the first time in a busy place, tell someone where you're going, all that stuff) and it's no different from meeting people in a club, except that i'm sober. I'm well aware that there are potential rapists on the net, but there are in all walks of life, so I don't see meeting people via the net as a particular problem.

and Yud, why do you think I started a thread asking who was single?... :wink:
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By Vivienne
#280758
I know you're an adult!! I didn't mean to be insulting..... your post had worried me, that's all.....
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By Nicola_Red
#280759
what worried you tho? the fact that I sometimes like uncomplicated sex with people I don't necessarily know very well, or the fact that i sometimes find it via the net?
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By Vivienne
#280760
I just don't think it ever IS uncomplicated...... and a lot of idiots will use the net and pretend to be someone they just plain aren't....
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By Nicola_Red
#280761
It is for me. I enjoy sex and I don't really need emotional involvement, in fact I usually prefer without. There are exceptions...but generally that's how I like my life to be.

And I know that the net is a good place to pretend to be someone else...but when you meet someone in person, you'll usually see thru any disguise (physically or personality-wise) that they might have been donning!
By Ballbag
#280763
Now the current Mrs Ballbag and I are very happy indeed, and I am simply talking hypothetically here (so back off ladies), but if I were to dabble in the old "casual relations" with a lady I'd have to be very careful indeed. Communicating just via text is a dangerous game, what if you swapped pics, exchanged stories, chatted for ages and ages, earnt each other's trust, arranged a meet, actually turn up for the meet and discover………… she's got a Brummie accent. You'd be out of there like a bullet from a gun.

Now that's where you need to be careful Nicola Red.
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By Vivienne
#280764
OK!! it's up to you... I don't mean to sound like anyone's mom, but all it's gonna take is the one time it doesn't go so well, and things may look different, that's all.
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By Vivienne
#280765
Bag for balls wrote:Now the current Mrs Ballbag and I are very happy indeed, and I am simply talking hypothetically here (so back off ladies), but if I were to dabble in the old "casual relations" with a lady I'd have to be very careful indeed. Communicating just via text is a dangerous game, what if you swapped pics, exchanged stories, chatted for ages and ages, earnt each other's trust, arranged a meet, actually turn up for the meet and discover………… she's got a Brummie accent. You'd be out of there like a bullet from a gun.

Now that's where you need to be careful Nicola Red.


This is no joke, Balls..... what if she meets someone and it's not as easy as she thinks just to get away !!
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By Nicola_Red
#280766
I know that Baggie. I never slept with anyone with a Brummie accent...yet. But if the offending individual was cute, well, I'd have to give it some serious thought...
By Ballbag
#280767
Viv wrote:This is no joke, Balls..... what if she meets someone and it's not as easy as she thinks just to get away !!


You mean like me? I admit it wouldn't be as easy to get away, but I guess in that situation I'd just persuade her that eventually she'd have to leave or else I'll have to start charging.
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By catherine
#280768
The brummie accent isn't that bad. I met a lad last night, very first time i've met anyone off the internet, met in a pub he didn't know my mom and her fella was on the next table. He seemed normal enough.
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By Vivienne
#280769
Again, I just don't think it's funny, Balls... and it wasn't a personal attack..... there's just a lot of clowns out there !! And I always think people who see ads in newspapers or girls on the net think they're easy prey.
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By Vivienne
#280770
catherine wrote:The brummie accent isn't that bad. I met a lad last night, very first time i've met anyone off the internet, met in a pub he didn't know my mom and her fella was on the next table. He seemed normal enough.


A lot of people can seem normal. "Seem" is the main word.
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By catherine
#280771
Well i'm sure nicola is old enough, wise enough and woman enough to know what shes doing
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By Nicola_Red
#280772
Bag for balls wrote:
Viv wrote:This is no joke, Balls..... what if she meets someone and it's not as easy as she thinks just to get away !!


You mean like me? I admit it wouldn't be as easy to get away, but I guess in that situation I'd just persuade her that eventually she'd have to leave or else I'll have to start charging.


hahaha. I'm sure I'd have some difficulty wrenching myself away from you Baggie...

but to address the point seriously, I do realise that there's an inherent danger. But once you go back to someone's place, or indeed take them back to yours if you live alone (altho i don't), you're in that situation, no matter how you met the person. It's a risk everyone who has sex with others has to take at some point.
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By Vivienne
#280773
Catherine... we've all thought that one.
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By Vivienne
#280774
nicola_red wrote:
Bag for balls wrote:
Viv wrote:This is no joke, Balls..... what if she meets someone and it's not as easy as she thinks just to get away !!


You mean like me? I admit it wouldn't be as easy to get away, but I guess in that situation I'd just persuade her that eventually she'd have to leave or else I'll have to start charging.


hahaha. I'm sure I'd have some difficulty wrenching myself away from you Baggie...

but to address the point seriously, I do realise that there's an inherent danger. But once you go back to someone's place, or indeed take them back to yours if you live alone (altho i don't), you're in that situation, no matter how you met the person. It's a risk everyone who has sex with others has to take at some point.


OK, but do you HAVE to go back quite so fast? What's the rush after all!!
By Ballbag
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It's no different to a one night stand, if anything it's safer because you've spent ages getting to know the person.

In anycase, Nicola'll be fine, I wouldn't mess with her and no mistaking.
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By catherine
#280776
No he was a normal lad we went from the pub to the cinema with out my parent's supervision and he was a normal nice person. Not everyone on the internet are freaks only a small percentage.