Friendship Outside of the BBS
- Thread starter Yeoman Randi
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I've spoken to YR on the phone many times - she is very nice and funny and kind and friendly. Also she has an awesome accent which I have sworn that she will one day teach me.
I almost met tsq once. I got lost in some part of NYC and I stumbled into a Starbucks to regroup. She was there, but I didn't talk to her. She was busy playing Scrabble with somebody else. You don't barge in on something like that.
Having spoken to MLB on the phone, PM'd and such, i can say without reservation that he is a kind, funny and considerate person. He has NEVER made me feel uncomfortable, ever. I am very happy that we have become friends and i do feel that if we lived close to each other in real life we would definitely be good friends.
As far as his seeing TSQ but not introducing himself, i think in part, he was just being considerate. She was engaged in a game/conversation with someone else and he felt it would be wrong to butt in on that. MLB is far from a stalker or a creep. Something else you may not realize is that MLB is really, very shy. I say this from the experience of actually talking to him and probably knowing him a bit better than most people here. He was very shy in our first PM encounters and he never persued me in any way that was inappropriate. He is a real gentleman.
And he's right, this thread was about making connections with people outside of the board, so he answered the question. Just because he may have mentioned this before in another thread doesn't make it creepy. I asked a question and he answered. That's all there was to it.
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Did you all just happen to be posters here and then discover that you lived in the same complex? Or did you meet in RL first and then one of you mentioned the BBS and got the others to join?
In the past I've met friends from Sar Trek boards and chats a number of times but never from THIS particular board. I've always had good experiences when I did it. I dated one girl that I met, and it caused a slight amount of jealousy with another girl, but that wasn't too bad.
Back in the late 90s during a rare period when I was single I met someone on a BB and we talked through chat, and telephone (no unlimited plans back then) and I'd have dated her in a second, but she was getting ready to travel around the world and wasn't about to be in a relationship. She was really open minded, a teacher and also happened to be beautiful.
RAMA
Back in the late 90s during a rare period when I was single I met someone on a BB and we talked through chat, and telephone (no unlimited plans back then) and I'd have dated her in a second, but she was getting ready to travel around the world and wasn't about to be in a relationship. She was really open minded, a teacher and also happened to be beautiful.
RAMA
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Actually, one of them recommended me the place when I moved here and the other was just a giant coincidence.
THEBREW: awesome!
That's why you meet people in public. Everyone I've ever met from the Internet, I've first met up with in a public place.
As for people from here I've met, we have:
JonathonWally
sidious618
Red Ranger
exodus
donkey
TheBrew
Lindley
mimic
Alidar Jarok
(If I forgot anyone, I'm sorry. I'm not really awake yet.)
They're all pretty awesome people. At the moment, I'd like to meet Yeoman Randi. She seems cool.
I'll PM people here, and used a bit of email- but mostly to get stories or stuff they want edited. I think a couple people are on FB... But that email and FB account I set up for people I meet online, it doesn't have real pictures of me, etc.
I try to keep a distance from most people online, unless there is some professionalism to them that creates a degree of reality- like an author or actor that is absolutely that person. I have a quite a few RL friends, but I've seen people I've more-or-less trusted devolve into trolls after knowing them for years, so I don't really trust online people. I keep them at a distance.
I try to keep a distance from most people online, unless there is some professionalism to them that creates a degree of reality- like an author or actor that is absolutely that person. I have a quite a few RL friends, but I've seen people I've more-or-less trusted devolve into trolls after knowing them for years, so I don't really trust online people. I keep them at a distance.
No, I speak to no one. *I hate you all!
*Except for those of you I have friended on Facebook, have chatted with online, and PM on the board.
*Except for those of you I have friended on Facebook, have chatted with online, and PM on the board.
What is this "real life" you people keep speaking of? I know of no such thing...
Who's the other one?
Yeah, I would like to meet you, too. You're like my male equivalent, which is kind of cool. But, it's kind of creepy.
Yeah, I would like to meet you, too. You're like my male equivalent, which is kind of cool. But, it's kind of creepy.
It might creep me out if it was the first time something like this happened to me, but it's not.
You'll get used to it.
