I'm not talking about the regular HTF meets and stuff like that but to chat with someone of the opposite sex and agree to meet for a drink or whatever. I have one lined up for Thursday night in a town north of the city, needless to say THIS will be interesting.
Good luck
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Nothing In Particular
We have pictures of each other and we've talked about everything.
At least you think you have pictures of each other. For all you really know, she sent you a picture of her best friend, or some random person she found on the net. She could be a really intelligent ape in a zoo somewhere, sneaking out of her cage when nobody is looking to chat with you.
That said, before I was married, I dated a few people I met online. Not on the Internet, mind you; the net was still very tiny back then and nobody in my area (>100k population) had access to it. I ran a bulletin board system with 7 incoming phone lines. Including my 3 local terminals I could have 10 users online. We often dropped one of the 7 lines and connected it to other large BBSs across town, then they'd connect to another, etc, creating a chain of linked systems. This enabled everyone on all systems to chat. It was still usually less than 20 people that could be online at any given time (there were hundreds of actual users, just not enough lines for them all), but 99% of them were in our immediate area. (Few people called BBSs if they had to pay long distance fees) Anyway, I dated a girl I met there, then another one, then the first girl's friend, all for some amount of time. Had a blind date with another who turned out to be an absolutely beautiful asian girl. Would have liked to have kept that one, but her religion was strict and I wasn't interested in joining so that was the end of that.
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-Ryan (http://www.ryanwright.com )
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you do criticize them, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
Yeah.. one should always exchange pictures and politely check the timeframe when they were taken.
Haha! Not only that, you must learn their language. For example:
"I don't have a scanner yet." really means "I'm not yet done fixing up my picture with Photoshop."
"That photo was taken not long ago." really means "I've gained a lot of weight since that photo was taken."
"Looks aren't important to me." really means "I hope looks aren't important to you."
You get the idea...
In the last two years, I've gone on about a dozen dates with girls I had met online. Only two of those dates actually developed into relationships that lasted a few months. In other words: expect to be disappointed the first few times, but don't give up.
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