Blade Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I wouldnt mind meeting up with forumers who live near me. I dont know who lives near me though. Would be fun to actually meet up with people who actually own a nintendo console Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 This should change now that I have a cube again! If I want to be friends with someone I met online, I would make an effort to meet them offline anyway (where possible). There's some separation, but then most of my social circles are largely separate anyway (animation people, (ex) work colleagues etc). Although my housemate has met Bard, Daft, Dan Dare and Razz (and maybe others...I forget). Please tell me you got that caustic looking orange one with the gameboy adapter. Also I find that there's a difference between meeting people online and offline, simply because when you meet someone for the first time offline, it's usually cordial and if you meld with their personality well then you can make something of it. When you "know," someone online and then meet them offline there's a bizarre series of expectations to live up to - the politics of text based communication are pretty different to talking face to face and finding out whether you have actual chemistry. When people present a version of themselves online, the temptation is to be careful, deliberate and consistent in that vision, but in real life, people behave differently in different contexts. Because online the only space you have to get a sense of their personality is in their posts, it's weird to see what they add to the vibe of a meeting when they're not talking, and are part of the "furniture" of the interaction, so to speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Please tell me you got that caustic looking orange one with the gameboy adapter. Nah, purple. Orange is crazy expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Paul Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I think the only "online" friend I have met really is Ashley. There's probably some people I've met in real life yet I mainly communicate with online, so I don't know whether I consider them real life/internet people. I don't think I'd be adverse to mixing up online/offline, the opportunity just hasn't really presented itself (although I think Ashley briefly met my flatmate once??? Doesn't really count.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I don't think so. I think the only time I went to your 3rd year house was before everyone moved in (other than that time I dropped a game off). You would have met mine if you came to my birthday drinks last year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Odwin Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Do you all remember when Eevil started leaving messages for someone (was it Mr Odwin) near the beef jerky in the supermarket where he worked. I remeber thinking that it was amazing that two 'online' people had almost made contact in the outside world. I don't think that ever happened. :p I used to shop in the supermarket that @EEVILMURRAY worked in, and we may have had a chat about jerky. But ... NO NOTES. That crazy. Then I moved across to Macclesfield (I was too close to eevil), and there the story ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EEVILMURRAY Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I remember that day... Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 My whole life is a lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Some of the friends I've made on N-Europe I consider some of my closest. Like mentioned I don't try to separate friends at all. I've found it's much easier to just take relationships for what they are instead of trying to label them. Just let it flow naturally. Consequently I don't find there's much of a difference between my online and offline persona; I try just to be me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 My whole life is a lie. Anyway. Did realise Bard is meeting my former work colleagues and animation friends at my birthday thing. Could be...something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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