Internet people

[Ackybur]

Been hanging out with one from the Internet for the last few days, and maybe will for another week. It's extremely interesting to have been friends online for a year and then hang out because of a family vacation. Has anyone here hung out with a friend after already knowing them? Pls share stories I'm interested in reading awkward stories.

[Harri]

I do have a story. This happened when I was around 12 or 13. I used to play on Neopets all the time. I was a nerd child, give me a break. Anyways, I had this friend nicknamed Night in a neopets guild thingy (I forget what they are called). (My nickname was still Harri). We became really good friends over the internet. We even shared addresses and wrote letters to each other. My parents never knew. I was a very self-conscience, and easily embarrassed, child. I didn't have too many IRL friends from school (all-girl Catholic school, worst years of my life). So Night was a little girl's dream come true.

Night's real name is Kathleen. She lives (lived) in Chicago. I had just turned 13 and my parents were planning our annual family visit to Chicago. I agreed with her in a letter that we should meet. It never occurred to me that I should have been cautious, or inform my parents, or even to be afraid of Night. I thought Night was my age, my gender, and over-all compatible to me. When we arrived at my Uncle's house I worked hard to get a chance to be alone out in Chicago. I got my very hip Uncle to take me to Field (which he is head curator at) and I was allowed free range. I met my friend Night at Field.

This isn't a horror story. Night (Kathleen) was everything she claimed to be. She is still my best friend. I love her dearly. My parents have met her. They still have no clue that I met her over the internet.

But, it was a dumb thing for me to do at that age. Don't do that little kids.

[Zclipse]

Yah me and toaster are moving in together, nbd.

[duck]

i actually met a guy on a trade server named retro version, he lived up in anchorage but he told me he was moving to juneau,
he was exactly what i pictured how the average tf2 player looked like. he was 6foot 2 and extremely white and slightly overweight. he is now my co worker and we go to school together

[Mike808]

Im going to spend the next summer in Korea with Z, nbd.

[Toaster]

Yah me and toaster are moving in together, nbd.

We'll be the least productive people, just playing video games all day, probably still using mumble.

[Sirnak]

I do have a story. This happened when I was around 12 or 13. I used to play on Neopets all the time. I was a nerd child, give me a break. Anyways, I had this friend nicknamed Night in a neopets guild thingy (I forget what they are called). (My nickname was still Harri). We became really good friends over the internet. We even shared addresses and wrote letters to each other. My parents never knew. I was a very self-conscience, and easily embarrassed, child. I didn't have too many IRL friends from school (all-girl Catholic school, worst years of my life). So Night was a little girl's dream come true.

Night's real name is Kathleen. She lives (lived) in Chicago. I had just turned 13 and my parents were planning our annual family visit to Chicago. I agreed with her in a letter that we should meet. It never occurred to me that I should have been cautious, or inform my parents, or even to be afraid of Night. I thought Night was my age, my gender, and over-all compatible to me. When we arrived at my Uncle's house I worked hard to get a chance to be alone out in Chicago. I got my very hip Uncle to take me to Field (which he is head curator at) and I was allowed free range. I met my friend Night at Field.

This isn't a horror story. Night (Kathleen) was everything she claimed to be. She is still my best friend. I love her dearly. My parents have met her. They still have no clue that I met her over the internet.

But, it was a dumb thing for me to do at that age. Don't do that little kids.

It had a cool ending at least. But yeah, don't do like her kids. Harri was a fool. An idiot. A dumb chair. :3

I have my little story as well!

3 or 4 years ago, I had my first girlfriend. After a couple of months together, she broke up with me in a really, really mean way (she didn't want me to ever contact her ever again). Her reason? She felt like she needed to discover her true self. Alone. Saddened, I sought some comfort. And I had the internet, lucky me! I searched for a way to lose some of my precious lifetime on the web and finally found an RP forum. I never knew such things existed. You write stories and stuff with other people and you all develop your characters together. That kind of stuff. Since writing was (and stil is) my only talent, I dove in RP and met a lot of people on that RP forum.

In fact, that forum had a simple but effective way to establish the power of the players' characters: the more skilled you were at writing, the more powerful your character was allowed to be. Some of you might think I write well after reading Sirnak's Report, but don't forget English is a language I don't even master yet. That RP forum was in French. Because of my writing skills, I became that forum's Zclipse in less than a week.

Because of all that fame and people telling me how awesome I was and my ego overflowing, I lost precious hundreds of hours on that forum. And in the end, many months after the beginning of this story, I just quitted everything. I left that forum without a single warning. I blocked all my RP friends from my MSN list. I started doing something else of my life.

The lesson I had from my experience? Well, it's a lesson most of you would flame me for telling here, but it's quite simple: cyber-friends are cyber-friends and shall remain cyber-friends. You can't have a serious relationship with someone on the web. Yes, we have fun together and stuff, but it's not real friendship. Not the kind of friendship I seek in life. A real friend is one who can actually help you if you need help and not only hear your problems over a chat window. Of course, you can always believe that friends are simply people you have fun with and that listen to whatever you need to say. But friends are so much more for me.

Right now, my summer job (I don't know how to translate the name of the job...) consists of playing with 12-17 years old teens all day long and listening to them if they feel like talking. It doesn't make me their friend even though I know stuff about them their parents certainly will never hear. People, teens or not, just need someone to talk to and have fun with. But friendship is more than that. Friendship is more than a completion fo your needs. It's hard to explain the feeling of "real friendship" with my poor English vocabulary though... It's somewhere in your soul. It's another member of your family. It's an obligation you just can't forget. It's knowing what the other thinks before he/she even realizes he/she is thinking about it. It's sharing your energy with someone by a single contact. It's like sex without condom! o.o

If you don't know the kind of feeling I'm talking about, maybe you have no real friend. Or maybe you simply don't live your life as I live mine. At any rate, as far as it goes for me, you all are my buddies, but none of you will ever be my friend.

Yes. It includes you, Zclipse. Now, if you would please stop sending me these naked pictures of you... k thx

[Patrid]

Yes. It includes you, Zclipse. Now, if you would please stop sending me these naked pictures of you... k thx

Just redirect them to my compound. Problem fixed.

[Jake]

If you don't know the kind of feeling I'm talking about, maybe you have no real friend. Or maybe you simply don't live your life as I live mine. At any rate, as far as it goes for me, you all are my buddies, but none of you will ever be my friend.

Yes. It includes you, Zclipse. Now, if you would please stop sending me these naked pictures of you... k thx

I wasn't going to write out any of my meeting internet people stories since they're pretty bland compared to what Ackybur was looking for but Sirnak has inspired me. I couldn't disagree more with feelings on meeting and associating with people over the internet. That doesn't make him wrong of course but I simply choose to live my life with a different outlook when it comes to my interactions with people. I don't feel that proximity has anything to do with the quality of a person or a friendship. It changes the way you interact with people certainly but not who they are or what they mean to an individual.

I've played in and have known a group of guys in a multi-gaming community for about 9 or 10 years now. I lived a few hours away from several of the members. One of the guys told me he was going to be in my city in a week or two so I told him he could crash at my place and we could hang out at my store and play after it closed. I invited 2 other guys to stay and we picked up a 5th from the gaming community. We scrimmed till 3am and had a great time. My girlfriend brought us pizza and we hung out, told jokes and played all night. It was a fucking blast. He left in the morning and that was that. I haven't seen him since, although we have spoken hundreds of times. No drama, good times and I'd absolutely consider him my friend.

You are the kind of person you want to be. You can be closed and detached or you can be open and receptive. I can't pretend I know the friends who I see every couple of weeks any better than those I see once a year or who I've only ever met once. I'd never met a work associate from our sister store located in New York until I flew up there one year for WCG and he treated my partner and I very warmly, much more than coworkers or acquaintances. Just because our interactions had previously been relegated to conference calls and emails didn't mean he regarded us in a cold impersonal way.

tl:dr - Shit was good. Hung out with internet friend. Lulz were had. LAN > internet + scrim. Met business buddy in NY. Awesome time. Drunk hanging out with Torbull and the team, good times.

p.s. I hear the internet is where the kids pick up all the chicks now, gotta get with the times Sirnak.

edit: I Jake did not mean to imply that Sirnak was a kid or that his opinion was wrong, just wrong for me. Sirnak is a man, a big nice man and we love him.

[Sirnak]

If you don't know the kind of feeling I'm talking about, maybe you have no real friend. Or maybe you simply don't live your life as I live mine. At any rate, as far as it goes for me, you all are my buddies, but none of you will ever be my friend.

Yes. It includes you, Zclipse. Now, if you would please stop sending me these naked pictures of you... k thx

I wasn't going to write out any of my meeting internet people stories since they're pretty bland compared to what Ackybur was looking for but Sirnak has inspired me. I couldn't disagree more with feelings on meeting and associating with people over the internet. That doesn't make him wrong of course but I simply choose to live my life with a different outlook when it comes to my interactions with people. I don't feel that proximity has anything to do with the quality of a person or a friendship. It changes the way you interact with people certainly but not who they are or what they mean to an individual.

I've played in and have known a group of guys in a multi-gaming community for about 9 or 10 years now. I lived a few hours away from several of the members. One of the guys told me he was going to be in my city in a week or two so I told him he could crash at my place and we could hang out at my store and play after it closed. I invited 2 other guys to stay and we picked up a 5th from the gaming community. We scrimmed till 3am and had a great time. My girlfriend brought us pizza and we hung out, told jokes and played all night. It was a fucking blast. He left in the morning and that was that. I haven't seen him since, although we have spoken hundreds of times. No drama, good times and I'd absolutely consider him my friend.

You are the kind of person you want to be. You can be closed and detached or you can be open and receptive. I can't pretend I know the friends who I see every couple of weeks any better than those I see once a year or who I've only ever met once. I'd never met a work associate from our sister store located in New York until I flew up there one year for WCG and he treated my partner and I very warmly, much more than coworkers or acquaintances. Just because our interactions had previously been relegated to conference calls and emails didn't mean he regarded us in a cold impersonal way.

tl:dr - Shit was good. Hung out with internet friend. Lulz were had. LAN > internet + scrim. Met business buddy in NY. Awesome time. Drunk hanging out with Torbull and the team, good times.

p.s. I hear the internet is where the kids pick up all the chicks now, gotta get with the times Sirnak.

I didn't say I reject hanging out with people and "having a blast" though. Just, ya know, when it comes at thinking things through I classify some precise people as friends and other people as something else. Doesn't mean I think we can't enjoy our time together with "not-friends" people. On the contrary. We need many kinds of relationships the be whole I believe. o.o

P.S. I picked up a chick on the internet once. It didn't do much in fact. She met another guy that interested her more some days after we first met in real life. Funny story. xD

Also... I'M NOT A KID!!! T-T

[Mad Anthony]

AWKWARD!

Texas man knowingly exposed Indiana teen to HIV

[Ackybur]

Sir skuas yet to have met a good Internet person. I've actually had a complete blast the last few days and even mingled my Internet friend with my real friends and it ended with us going to a camp called the super hero academy (I'll post pix soon). It was hilarious and fun! I can also say if I was to meet toaster or z in real life then it would be a similar experience. Kaynu, z and toaster are the only Internet people that I can really say are friends (without adding from the Internet). Now back to my vacation and probably pushing Kaynu in a lake today. Doin' it for you toaster!

[BoB Dolen]

p.s. I hear the internet is where the kids pick up all the chicks now, gotta get with the times Sirnak.

Much truth in this but was back in 2003 when i started tapping it.

[Maringue]

Yah me and toaster are moving in together, nbd.

We'll be the least productive people, just playing video games all day, probably still using mumble.

Couldn't you just yell over to the adjacent room? That's what we would do in college before any of these new fangled VOIP programs.

I too have an internet friend story.

Back in 1.6-CS:S I played with a group pretty regularly. One of the few servers who actually had admins who would deal with douchebags, so I played there a lot. Mostly same aged people who didn't tolerate any shit, the ban list was pretty epic. After a while I became an admin there, but could never attend the yearly admin meet-up/party-down event since it was way the just out in Portland. It's hard to argue with plentiful, good beer and strippers everywhere.

So another year later the head admin lets people know that he's going to be in DC for a while, and would anyone want to get beers. We stopped at a taco/beer happy hour and were knocking back a few when we bumped into Whitney. She was sitting at the bar by herself, pretty depressed looking, so we asked her to come over for a beer. We asked her why she was so bummed out. She told us that she just moved here for an internship and discovered that the house she moved into was "polyamorous". But even though they would have orgies in the hottub that was outside her window, she wasn't allowed to drink in the house. We convinced her to start hanging out at my place and to move out of the ugly orgy house as we called it (seriously, these people were NOT attractive). He was staying in a horrible residence hotel, so we hung out at my place most of the time. He ended up moving from the hotel into the extra tiny room in our house with his company paying rent and bills. Yeah, so that's how I ended up living with Troppmann for 8 months. We still chill whenever we cross paths.

[Dèx]

It had a cool ending at least. But yeah, don't do like her kids. Harri was a fool. An idiot. A dumb chair. :3

I have my little story as well!

3 or 4 years ago, I had my first girlfriend. After a couple of months together, she broke up with me in a really, really mean way (she didn't want me to ever contact her ever again). Her reason? She felt like she needed to discover her true self. Alone. Saddened, I sought some comfort. And I had the internet, lucky me! I searched for a way to lose some of my precious lifetime on the web and finally found an RP forum. I never knew such things existed. You write stories and stuff with other people and you all develop your characters together. That kind of stuff. Since writing was (and stil is) my only talent, I dove in RP and met a lot of people on that RP forum.

In fact, that forum had a simple but effective way to establish the power of the players' characters: the more skilled you were at writing, the more powerful your character was allowed to be. Some of you might think I write well after reading Sirnak's Report, but don't forget English is a language I don't even master yet. That RP forum was in French. Because of my writing skills, I became that forum's Zclipse in less than a week.

Because of all that fame and people telling me how awesome I was and my ego overflowing, I lost precious hundreds of hours on that forum. And in the end, many months after the beginning of this story, I just quitted everything. I left that forum without a single warning. I blocked all my RP friends from my MSN list. I started doing something else of my life.

The lesson I had from my experience? Well, it's a lesson most of you would flame me for telling here, but it's quite simple: cyber-friends are cyber-friends and shall remain cyber-friends. You can't have a serious relationship with someone on the web. Yes, we have fun together and stuff, but it's not real friendship. Not the kind of friendship I seek in life. A real friend is one who can actually help you if you need help and not only hear your problems over a chat window. Of course, you can always believe that friends are simply people you have fun with and that listen to whatever you need to say. But friends are so much more for me.

Right now, my summer job (I don't know how to translate the name of the job...) consists of playing with 12-17 years old teens all day long and listening to them if they feel like talking. It doesn't make me their friend even though I know stuff about them their parents certainly will never hear. People, teens or not, just need someone to talk to and have fun with. But friendship is more than that. Friendship is more than a completion fo your needs. It's hard to explain the feeling of "real friendship" with my poor English vocabulary though... It's somewhere in your soul. It's another member of your family. It's an obligation you just can't forget. It's knowing what the other thinks before he/she even realizes he/she is thinking about it. It's sharing your energy with someone by a single contact. It's like sex without condom! o.o

If you don't know the kind of feeling I'm talking about, maybe you have no real friend. Or maybe you simply don't live your life as I live mine. At any rate, as far as it goes for me, you all are my buddies, but none of you will ever be my friend.

Yes. It includes you, Zclipse. Now, if you would please stop sending me these naked pictures of you... k thx[/quote]


It's BEUTIFUL

[Sirnak]

It's BEUTIFUL

Your post confuses me in so many different ways. o.o

Well, I'm glad so many of you have nice stories to share. Good for you all.