LaDamaX · 9 answers · 4y

Have you ever taken an online friendship to real life and off screen? If so, did you continue to enjoy the person’s company as much as you did online, or did the relationship change?

That actually did take place a couple of weeks ago. We started t o play "battleship" online, then took it to facetiming while playing, then to meeting irl. The person changed a lot. From an idealised image of loveliness to a touchable fault ridden and defective human that I like even more. I still feel that the idealised image still is often an overlay to the real person. It is like double vision. I need new corrective glasses anyway...

Yes I have, and the relationship didn't change, though I was always a lot more quiet/useless IRL.

Yes, it's happened a few times, never any bad outcomes or hard feelings (at least on my end end)

Only once. It was with someone I met on a MySpace chatroom while I was living in Florida. She's from NY so we bonded over the fact that we hated it there.

Yes. I did it with one person who became my partner for 9 years. Then We broke up but we're still best friend.

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