Have you ever dated or slept with someone you met on an online forum?

Just speak with your hands and tongue.

Honestly, its a viable way to meet people using all 4 of the online options you've mentioned. I've met "normal people" on 3 of the 4 and generally they were not really serious relationships, but most were never meant to be.

Craigslist was the most interesting. If you just put yourself out there, and you don't have some boring ad, some of the crazy ass replies you get are truly amazing. I had a producer from MTV contact me, for some dating show - I talked to her off/on for like 4-5 months (I had no interest in the show), but she was fun to chat with.

One time I was selling laptops and had a group of hookers try and buy them in "trade"... and told me I had a goldmine because they'd probably always need to be fixed. Yeah... I sold one for cash and passed on the rest of the situation...

I had a one night stand with a chick (craigslist) who in the middle of doing the deed, looked back at me all innocent like and was like, "I want you to hit me in the back as hard as you can". To which I was promptly like, "wait... what?". And no shit... I didn't mishear her - she fully wanted to be donky punched in the back. Creeped out? Yuppers! I can totally go for a little choking or some mild S&M, but to just up and slug some gal in the back? Well, that wasn't really my cup of tea, so I kinda just stopped, got up all wierded out and brought her all of her clothes.

Had I knocked that one up that'd either be the best or worst choice of my life... either way, I wasn't comfortable with it.

And the net is great for making some unique connections with people you'd otherwise never meet! I somehow started chatting with Sean William Scott on myspace for like 2 years after I posted a reply on his profile. He's hilarious.

The internet is awesome, and you can dig right through the normal bullshit you encounter in most dating situations and just move right to the next person. Just beware - there's also lot of creepy ass people out there.

hmm do you have the camping pics in there too?

honey I framed those in 8 1/2 X 11 and hung them on the wall...

Dating site ... but not online chat, though we did chat for awhile before meeting.

She got very serious before I was ready to get serious (only two years after separation/divorce for me). Different time in my life though she would have been a keeper.

Still wonder now and then about her though since we did connect and were as matched across a number of different categories as I ever have been with a woman. Right decision for the time though (for me). I think she is now married to someone, but don't know for sure. (I have NEVER checked up on an old girlfriend ... since they are an "old girlfriend" for a reason, a legitimate real reason for the time in space when the break up occured - be it at her volition or mine)

is that rodent problem all fixed now then?

Those are trained pets dear, how do you think I got you naked that fast to begin with?

damn it sucks when you can't think of a witty comeback.. i know when i'm driving home i'll think of a really good one

You win this round.

Don't ever challenge the best luv ;)

But I'll remember that when I need a fast decision ten minutes too late...

hey you said tongue and hands, they are both there

I've only had one experience with this.

After getting to know someone for a couple of months, we decided to meet.

Total nightmare...looked nothin like the pics she had posted.

I've only had one experience with this.

After getting to know someone for a couple of months, we decided to meet.

Total nightmare...looked nothin like the pics she had posted.

i'm good with those

Seriously I do know what you mean...I had a chick drive like 200 miles to spend a weekend with me and she tricked me with both a younger pic and she did the "fat girl pose" to me...It just so happened that my brother was at the same restaurant by weird chance, and later he said she was really pretty...but I like 'em more petite than that...I guess I'm just a bit too picky.

She was about a 100 pounds heavier than her pic. I actually felt bad about leaving at first. I mean we had been talkin about 2 months. Felt like we had connected! Lesson learned bro...never again!

Wife prolly wouldn't approve anyway!

No! Real life and fake life should always be kept seperate! I prefer meeting people in real life.

There's something to be said for the connection to be felt when actually talking to someone face-to-face rather than chatting with someone online. Maybe, I'm just old fashioned, though.

it's a rare day for me to feel like sharing... but I was writing articles on the social aspects/ramifications of the internet, back in the early days. (pre-ebay, gasp!)

To answer the OP's question, yes... I had a beautiful three year relationship that continues as a forever friendship to this day.

met him in an aol chat room back in the 20th century... 1998.
We talk on the phone every month to this day.

"online dating" was hush hush back in the day... you didn't tell people how you met. big 20th century no no... at least for "good girls"

ahhh... how times have changed. imagine a world without organized dating sites!
yes... it did exist.

the internet was the wild west of social interaction and was an amazing addition to my world as a single-again 30 year old.

I even had a guy I met in a chat room fly from the UK to the USA to meet me... he didn't mention his 10 day holiday was intended to be spent ALL with me... lol... I thought I was meeting him for dinner and he had his suit case in hand to come home with me! Oh what fun... live and learn.

so how did my story end?

five years ago I married a man I met online... we lived only a mile apart in a town of 5k people... but didn't know each other after living in the same town for 6 years.

Today he and I are living happily ever after. We only use the internet for recruiting hot pool boys and maids... lol... just kidding. ;)

Did you tell them you used to be a dude first?

Should I behave or be a bitch?

It is the pumping hips I tell ya.