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Big_John: So if we agree many of us are different or at least appear to be different on-line how do we work to ensure the "right" one finds us? I know I have found several really nice ladies, but each of them wasn't the "one". Maybe I don't know how ot attract the right kind of woman based on my limited abilities to identify those qualities online. Many of my friends tell me I should stop looking online and stick to the "real" world. The real world in small town Mississippi doesn't haven't many ladies.
I have met people online way back when it wasn't fashiinable.
And not on dating sites.
First one was on a Community Building site, ala M.Scott Peck, where the day before I left to go o/s for 3 mths, I posted a message requesting if anyone had any accommodation at their home in New York for April that year, as I would be there for few weeks. To cut a long story short, I received a reply from a guy in Texas offering my a place to stay if ever I went there. Well I replied out of courtesy saying, 'you never know' and left a forwarding address in Pisa, Italy at my aunt's place. Blow me down there was a letter waiting for me when I visited her. From the guy in Texas. I actually ended up flying to Dallas Fort Worth From New York in April and stayed at his home for 10 days. We still email each other. It's been 12 yrs. And no hanky panky and was treated like a princess.
Second time I was researching a professional site. I emailed the director of the clinic. His P.A. replied on his behalf and he received the message on his return from an African safari. Yeah, I know
Well, next thing you know, I find myself months later, travelling to Maryland, he paid for the return airfare for me and I stayed with him and his wife for 2 weeks at their home, they had cooks, cleaners, garndeners. Even deer for me to look at on my morning walks through their acreage.So, John, you can tell your friends, online people, well mowst of them, are real people, who are part of RL.
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venere08: I have met people online way back when it wasn't fashiinable.
sorry, 'fashionable'!.
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In real life, people don't get on my nerve...because...because...i choose my company
It's good to get to know myself here
It's good to get to know myself here
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Nuns are not the way they use to be years ago....
Big_John: So hanging out at Church will get me a Nun?
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cristina: In real life, people don't get on my nerve...because...because...i choose my company
It's good to get to know myself here
It's good to get to know myself here
Oh it is Cris, hi by the way.
But here if people get on your nerves then there is nothing to say that you have to endure that.
You can as in life, chose to ignore them.
I do.
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Dknew: I'd say I'm quieter in real life then online, Other then that I'm just me.
Dan, I would almost think that impossible.
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vinny1967: Real was probably the wrong term
but in relation to the thread
if you are meeting a person who contradicts themselves
regularily you really don't know what to expect and would have
no true sense of them.
but in relation to the thread
if you are meeting a person who contradicts themselves
regularily you really don't know what to expect and would have
no true sense of them.
That's a very good point, Vinny. Most here are true to themselves when they answer, though. And consistent. I have had times, though, in a thread where a response from someone else made me think further on a subject, and reconsider my stance. And one where as I was writing one response, and the one most expected from me, I discovered that it was not how I felt about it. Shocked me as much as it did some others.
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Sommerauer71: Represent who we are in life?
I ask this because it has been something that since meeting with PPV, we have discussed.
I look like my pictures, coz they are me, he is the same as he portrays here, obviously he talks less than he writes, I mean honestly, most of you saw what he had written.
So, are you quieter, noisier, more shy, face to face than on here?
I have read so many times when people have met that they are not the same as they are online.
I ask this because it has been something that since meeting with PPV, we have discussed.
I look like my pictures, coz they are me, he is the same as he portrays here, obviously he talks less than he writes, I mean honestly, most of you saw what he had written.
So, are you quieter, noisier, more shy, face to face than on here?
I have read so many times when people have met that they are not the same as they are online.
I am the same on-line as I am off...in fact...I write the way I talk...type O's excluded...
and have the exact same wacky sense of humour....Oh and I talk just as much....I can be a bit shy when first meeting someone depending on my comfort level with the person...if they are talkative like me though...then we are good to go..... 
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Big_John: So hanging out at Church will get me a Nun?
Well not always. I'm an ex-nun and you won't find me in church......
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Sommerauer71: I tend to hold back more of late.
Simply because I know that I will end up in trouble.
I word it differently, now, but I know what I mean.
Shirley, you let go, I like some spark and mischief.
Simply because I know that I will end up in trouble.
I word it differently, now, but I know what I mean.
Shirley, you let go, I like some spark and mischief.
Ok Sommer you asked for it.
But you might have to keep me in line at times. 
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Hugz_n_Kissez: I am the same on-line as I am off...in fact...I write the way I talk...type O's excluded... and have the exact same wacky sense of humour....Oh and I talk just as much....I can be a bit shy when first meeting someone depending on my comfort level with the person...if they are talkative like me though...then we are good to go.....
Hi Shelley.
One thing I am is never shy.
I can be quiet, but I am not shy, I like to study a person... Body language and so on...
Good to see you gal.
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Shirley49WV: Ok Sommer you asked for it. But you might have to keep me in line at times.
I have trouble keeping myself in line...
But I will do my best.
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Sommerauer71: Oh it is Cris, hi by the way.
But here if people get on your nerves then there is nothing to say that you have to endure that.
You can as in life, chose to ignore them.
I do.
But here if people get on your nerves then there is nothing to say that you have to endure that.
You can as in life, chose to ignore them.
I do.
Yes, in real life you can ignore them...
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I am admittedly pretty quiet in person, although personality and humor would be the same. Same for intellect or lack thereof.
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Hugz_n_Kissez: I am the same on-line as I am off...in fact...I write the way I talk...type O's excluded... and have the exact same wacky sense of humour....Oh and I talk just as much....I can be a bit shy when first meeting someone depending on my comfort level with the person...if they are talkative like me though...then we are good to go.....
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Sommerauer71: Hi Shelley.
One thing I am is never shy.
I can be quiet, but I am not shy, I like to study a person... Body language and so on...
Good to see you gal.
One thing I am is never shy.
I can be quiet, but I am not shy, I like to study a person... Body language and so on...
Good to see you gal.
Good to see you too...well I guess when ya put it that way...maybe shy isn't right term...definitely quiet....but if the person is just as outgoing and talkative as me...I feel much more comfortable and can talk till cows come home...the one thing I am not good at...even on here and never have been is small talk...I am subject oriented....thus I am not a big phone talker if it's just for small talk...but get me on a subject and I can and will converse for hours.....
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cristina: Yes, in real life you can ignore them...
As you can here...
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Hugz_n_Kissez: Good to see you too...well I guess when ya put it that way...maybe shy isn't right term...definitely quiet....but if the person is just as outgoing and talkative as me...I feel much more comfortable and can talk till cows come home...the one thing I am not good at...even on here and never have been is small talk...I am subject oriented....thus I am not a big phone talker if it's just for small talk...but get me on a subject and I can and will converse for hours.....
Oh me too, always, why I never particpate in alot of threads, I like a good old discussion...
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druidess6308: If we ever meet in person, we'd better have a lot of time to spend together then, Sis!
Yes..we best then...you won't be able to shut us up....
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I am shy until you get to know me..
Yeh i know who would of quess..
Its different when you are sitting behind a computer..you can
say anything you wish and wont get a slap in the face
When Eric and I met nothing was of surprise,,
We were who we said we were on here..and the pictures were
of recent..
Now we are more used to each other and he probably wishes i
was shy again
Hi KMD.
Oh I love your 'different when sitting behind a screen', fantastic.
And so very true.
And look how it has all worked out, KMD, wonderfully...
One of the success stories here.