Meeting someone that you met online for the first time...?
Okay, here's the situation: My brother knows this guy through playing Halo online with him for over two years. I started talking to this guy when they first started talking but then got busy with my own busy life, so we just ended up not talking anyone. However, I recently got in touch with him again and we've been talking for close to three months (through AIM, Facebook, phone calls, texts, and video chatting) about anything and everything. Although I understand the risks and dangers of meeting someone that I've never met in person before, I'm considering meeting this guy. He lives in Philadelphia, but his roommate lives in the same town as my friend for college so I was possibly thinking we could meet up there when I go down to visit her. Even though I know I can never be positive about how truthful someone I met online is being with me and how they might be different in real life, I still think that through our constant conversations, I have gotten a lot of honest answers out of him. I've never experienced any red flags with him and he isn't pushing me into seeing him or anything. I've seen recent pictures of him and his family and like I said, video chat with him almost every night and we talk in some form every day. I've discussed this with my parents (I'm 19) and my mom says that he should come up here, and although my dad agrees, he also understands where I'm coming from. I was just curious as to how other people felt about this. I wasn't planning on meeting him alone or in a secluded spot. Like I said it's a possibility we could meet up in a neutral location (where my friend from college lives) and I could meet him and his former roommate with my friend tagging along. Another possibility is having him come up here. A final possibility (although I don't know how many people are going to agree with it) is to discuss the possibility of me visiting with his parents (he's 19 as well) and see how they feel about it, and make sure we are supervised by them, and me go down to see him (it's about a 5 hour drive). I want to do this the right and safe way, because I know that there are bad people out there and what not, and it means a lot to me to make sure I am safe.
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1 :
never meet people onlineee. its just wierd and it oculd leave you hurt in the end. if you really wanna meet people off there have someone with you (a group of friends) and never go anywhere alone with the person you meet until you know them for a while
2 :
Ok I say its a fifty fifty chance. I have been in a similar situation to yours. I used to be friends with this guy comming out of middle school and he moved to a different state than me, We lost conatact for about a year and a half and he went through a horrible relationship. We stared talking and eventually he ended up coming back here and we are now married but honestly I was scared shitless to see him again for the first time in three years. So itcould turn out bad or good. Hope this helped
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