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Tell your friends that we ARE real people! [img]smile.gif[/img] Really we are!
As for meeting people over the internet, your safety and your level of getting to know anyone depends on where you meet them. Like the others, I would not feel very comfortable with my knowledge of anyone I met solely through a chat room, but these forums, and emails, and phone calls or face-to-face meetings all allow you to get to know other people quite well. I met my husband over the Internet. I have met and made a lot of friends through Ironworks, some of which (Wyvern, Sazerac, Lily the Ranger, Davros, Skywalker, Moni, Adam Warlock, Scronan, and Freudianslip) I've known/corresponded with for a year and a half, and more that I've met since. Sure, I've got friends on the outside, but having moved around a lot and having been in the military, most of my friends are email penpals by necessity, living too far away to visit. What's the difference? You are as discriminatory with your friends here as you are in so-called "real life" -- you wouldn't necessarily be chummy with everyone here, as we are all different people, some of us with likes and dislikes similar to yours, and some not.
So quit worrying! What's that expression.... your friends are the family you chose to have... something like that.
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