Do you trust the mental sanity of some people on the internet?
 

I wonder about it rarely, but then I don't make it a habit of meeting people off the internet, and most certainly not for sex or else. I just feel odd when you hear of people who got married because they met on the internet, or something like that. I could never do something like that, unless I was drugged up to my eyeballs.

I was friends in high school with a girl, (Stephanie was her name) who 'met' a guy in the internet when she was a Freshmen in high school. He lived in Florida and always talked about how as soon as they both graduated they would marry. Every one thought she was crazy (which in truth she was, and thats why I liked her) and that there was no way anything like that would actually happen, considering they'd never even met.

Don't you know, he flew up here the day after graduation and they married. I've not seen her in years, but I understand they are still married and have two kids.

I don't get it.

for what ever reason the wording of the thread title made me chuckle

i certainly think about it alot the more i read certain forums, it is interesting cause i have met about 25 people who have posted here in the last 6 years, and it's weird seeing i find to be friends of mine or acquaintances clash with others i have met

i really have thought it over many times over many different people like kenji (personally i think some white powder had a hand in it) or others or mr blabberscrotch who just erupted over nothing, then having talked to for something that i didn't like initially it's weird to get warped when it turns out "hey maybe this person is only an asshole in the safety of online chatter, but is quite nice in person"

i guess it's too easy to generalize much (although some mowing some lawn all day kinda stick out and stick together) so it's case to case for me

I mentioned the married bit because on Sunday I was talking to my brother's ex girlfirend, and she too married a guy off the internet. They seem happy and everything, but what puzzles me is the fact that she is a very gorgeous looking, smart girl, so there wasn't any apparent reason for her to go that route. I still respect whatever decision someone makes for themselves. I just don't fully get it either.

that reminds me of a girl i knew in high school, she was very nice, but wild, she flirted (more like teasing) around with me, then dropped out with some loser, then like a year ago, i found her on myspace under a different name, as a model named Angelique and she has been doing many magazine spreads and the like, not to mention some of the more erotic variety, which is kinda odd to see that, but she kinda did seem the type in retrospect, and oh yeah she is engaged to the brother of another classmate from that school so weird all around

I've met some great people through the internet. To me, its kind of an extension of friendships developed through penpals from MRR or Flipside classifieds. I think the people seeking sex over the net are looking to get hurt though. It is very convenient though.

That true. I should point out that it's more people who look for romance or sex that I'm curious about. And I'm fully aware that if you sleep around a lot, sooner or later something unpleasant is bound to happen, internet or not.

you never know how you will mee t someone that you fall in love with. it could be an old chum, online, at a bookstore, or as an enemy. you never know.

meeting someone on the net is like getting someone's phone number from a friend and building up a relationship talking on the phone.

My ex-wife's cousin met his wife online. she was a grad student in new zealand. they have been married for years and have a beautiful daughter.


I bet we could get some of the crazy bastards on here and have a FANTASTIC record night
I use a portable playstation bag to carry records in.
we could get chout, and !@#$%! and sarramkrop and all you freaky deakys and play recordsd all night. those wbho drink can drink, those who smoke can smoke with me and those who do other stuff can do other stuff. we could spend a week rocking out

For as long as everyone would rehearse the script before meeting me, that would be fine. My spokesperson isn't keen on questions that I have been asked millions of times before either.

Was that your "spokesperson" accusing me of having bumsex with another boardie? Tell your "person" that I bet that they're a bitch, and they'd like to suck it.:)

my dad met a great woman online.

I'm sorry. You'll have to redirect your questions to her, so that I can absorb them and then decide that they aren't even worth answering.

The internet isn't as odd and creepy as it once was (I know, I know, we just expelled a paedophile from the board).

I've made some good friends in this forum, some of whom I've had the privelege of trading cassettes with in the monthly mix tapes projects. The folks posting here are generally nice people and I'm glad I signed up and got to know them. It gives me some faith in humanity, anyway.

For years I've had a 'penpal' via the internet, and because I was a recluse in my childhood and early teens, having somebody far away to write to was the only way I ever got anything sorted out in my head. She and I, through writing to eachother, became close friends, and I got to go visit her last summer and it was very nice. I don't know about marriage, but good friendships can easily flourish online.

I actually don't consider all of you to be actually real people. You're all more like blocks of words with unique personality traits that I associate with a bizarre name. The "post a picture of yourself" is just as much fiction as those stock photos that you find in frame for sale. Doesn't mean I think any less of you, my digital puppets.

Willful ignorance or a joke.... the latter.

Im still pretty suspicious of the internet and people on it. I dont post on any other forums beside this one. but the other year i was in a student hall and out of 20 odd people i was the only one without a computer, so its pretty clear that everyone uses it now. Ive met people over MSN who were freinds of freinds and im still freinds with some of them now. I wouldnt look for relationships online, but maybe in a few years that will be the optimum way of doing things, who knows

i use msn and skype to keep in touch with people that i meet when i work on a good gig, it is much cheaper than the phone thats for sure

i blame the internets.

for finding weirdos.

or for finding cool great people.
swa for example :P


but he'll tell ya we met at a sonic youth show. which is true. more formally on line.

the answer I believe, is....hell no

i met you!

iv met a few of my good friends via the internet and have made some cool relationships with people through the internet. The people on the internet are just the same people walking around the city.

yr all y'all all er crackers!

i met a girl on the internet.

we dated for 6 months.

this was 5 years ago.

she was hot.. like.. "how the hell am >i< with her?!" hot. i mean, hotter than sway's girlfriend. every time i walked around with her in public, men would stare at her. it intimidated me. but.. i guess i appealed to her because i look like a little boy and she was in love with rivers cuomo. something.. i mean, seriously, i've had a few good looking chicks make me offers, but this chick was fucking BEAUTIFUL! just ridiculous. oh shit.. turns out she was also fucking INSANE. crazy internet bitch. she had me burn her dashboard confessional and all kinds of stupid shit and she freaked out whenever someone mentioned war. she had these extreme illogical bipolar mood swings. she could suck a mean dick thouh!

Damn straight!

they are all a little crazy at least

I have a weird experience with this.

I was once involved in a really intense communication with a girl (ICQ, text messages, e-mails) for about half a year and we wrote all this crazy shit to each other how we miss each other and yada yada. Then we once met and it all went to shit. I mean, we cared for each other and all that, it's just we'd had different percetion of the other person than reality.

We then stayed in contact for about another week or so but then it all just vanished.

Internet "relationships" are worth shit when you allow them to get too far.

I was in love with the girl.

My buddy in New Hampshire was wondering why I wasn't hooking up more with strange woman off the internet. I was like, dude, if you're even half functional and have to pick up chicks off the net in NYC, you've got problems. And if a chick has to troll for guys, there's probably something off. We're not in rural Kansas on the farmer hookup sites.

Lately my fear is crazy former boyfriends.

I dunno. I don't think there are any creeps or mental defectives on the net. Case in point: Against the Grain seems like a normal enough likable sort of guy.

Yeah, that's kinda my point. I can understand if someone lives in a small or isolated place, but I would think that it can't be that difficult to get laid in New York, London or any big city.

What if you're really into crazed strange women and former boyfriends, though? Then it seems the internet is the perfect place for finding what you want.

Another nice find off the internet:


Four friends, who hadn't seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a party. After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room. Those who remained talked about their kids.

The first guy said, "My son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at the bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration and soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he's the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes for his birthday."

The second guy said, "Darn, that's terrific! My son is also my pride and joy. He started working for a big airline then went to flight school to become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he owns the majority of its assets. He's so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday."

The third man said: "Well, that's terrific! My son studied in the best universities and became an engineer. Then he started his own construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A 30,000 square foot mansion."

The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth returned from the restroom and asked: "What are all the congratulations for?" One of the three said: "We were talking about the pride we feel for the successes of our sons. ...What about your son?"

The fourth man replied: "My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub." The three friends said: "What a shame...what a disappointment."

The fourth man replied: "No, I'm not ashamed. He's my son and I love him. And he hasn't done too badly either. His birthday was two weeks ago, and He received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and a top of the line Mercedes from his three boyfriends".



Are you a fun-loving guy who would like to meet up with two others?

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We live at Canary Wharf and would love to invite you over for a drink and a meal - to get to know one another better.

Email us now with your pic(s), stats and whatever details you want to share and we will send you ours. We promise to respond to EVERYONE, even if it's a polite "No Thanks".

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I x

The peeps I've met of the internet have been few, and from this forum entirely wonderful people. I could even look past the fact that Marras is a raving Nazi. But it's a bit gay meeting people off the internet. Or something.

Really? Where was I?

Or was it me?

Oh, c'mon Glice! I've only had to stop and lift my arm to give someone directions to the nearest hospital, while you were standing bored by our meeting point.

I missed the pedo expulsion too.
Why did I have to get a job?

He wasn't expelled but he left of his own choice. If her age is really 20 years old, you could hardly accuse someone of being a paedophile. Still, you kinda bring it on yourself to be seen as such, at that age.

well it's obvious that people on the internet are crazy.

just have a look:

http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=13848

^^ that's the "pedophile" (?) thread for those of you who were aXing

i dont trust peoples sanity on the internet or anywhere else for that matter.

You mean that if she was ugly and stupid then that would be much more understandable?

Yes, that's what I mean.

Our fantasies are always wilder than reality.