Do you consider fellow posters as strangers?

JH

Do you consider other posters here that you know since months to be strangers? Some people will say, "I don't really know you, I never saw you in person, so you're a stranger". Do you have to meet someone in person so that he or she isn't any more considered to be a stranger?

I started hundreds of threads and responded in thousands of posts gave my opinion on many topics and posted my picture. Is this enough to say, I'm not a stranger? Most people here have a good idea of who other posters are, just by the way they post and what opinion they have on certain topics.

Do you have to see someone in person so that you don't consider them to be strangers anymore?

Water

No, I don't have to meet someone in person to consider them a friend. As for this forum. Well... there are a lot of people here that I look forward to meeting.

Water

happyout

I find there is a huge area between stranger and friend that many on this forum fit into. There are people whose online identities I really like, while I realize they may be different in person. There are a few that I want to become friends with, and so I have PM'd some of them to start a direct communication. If that works out, do I feel I need to see them in person to think of them as my friend? No, not at all. It matters more what kind of direct communication we establish.

Just my opinion.

Happyout

shamus

? Seeing as this is the internet, well, yes. I do.

minimus

JH, they were saying you were stranger, not A stranger, silly. I've come to be comfortable with a few people here that I believe I can actually trust. They are not mere strangers to me.

JH

Shamus said:

? Seeing as this is the internet, well, yes. I do.

I don't believe it has anything to do with the internet. Internet is not evil. Either you trust someone or you don't. Either you get along with someone or you don't. As time goes by, if you still consider a person a stranger, it's because you have no affinity with that person.

I met a few people 2 weeks ago who post here, and this had no change on who I thought they were. I trusted them just as much before I saw them as after I saw them. See, I got to know them through their posts and comments, not for what they look like. I was glad to meet them in person, but I already considered them friends before meeting them.

Country Girl

I'm stranger than most.. so yes, I would consider that people should consider me a "stranger."

CG

micheal

It would great if all of us on this forum could one day meet up together. There would be many interesting conversations, it would very therapeutic, I think it would be a blast.

Swan

Strange yes , but not strangers.

I have come to appreciate the posts and ideas of several here, and I also look forward to meeting them someday, but in the meantime, I think I am getting to know them pretty well. Whenever I meet people at Apostafests, I am seldom surprised by their real life persona. It's usually pretty close to their on-line one.

Tammy

Elsewhere

For me to really "know" someone I usually need to meet them. There are a few exceptions... but not many.

I'm always surprised at how people look, sound and act differently from they way I envision them online.

Do you consider fellow posters as strangers?

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