If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
you know who you are… 😉
oh, by the way… i have an interview today. i was feeling really discouraged the other day, so i went to the martin luther king center web site and found a volunteer position at a local center, helping people who lack computer skills gain them. i don’t know whether this will be in the form of teaching classes, or just being overseer for a computer lab somewhere, and i’m not sure how long i will last before i go nuts, but it’s better than doing nothing.
EDIT: barring anything negative on my background check (which i can’t imagine, but anything is possible, especially these days) i will have a five-hour-per-week volunteer position on or about the 20th. whee.
ha That’s really funny and sad. I know more people have that experience than those who don’t. But there are lots of people who have met/”romanced” online and are still happy together in the same house now. I met lots of people online that I later met and dated once or twice (without sex or love), but nothing big. I only had one experience where I met somebody online and we had a strong romantic connection (though not “in love”), and we met. I’m really analytical and incisive though, so I knew who I was dealing with. I researched the hell out of him. 🙂 I flew far away to meet him and we were happy for a couple months. It was nice. 🙂 I just couldn’t live away from SF, it wasn’t worth it to me, and I came back.
actually, both of us are rather turned off by the whole concept of online romance… people who fall in love with the idea of a person they’ve never met, only to have their heart broken when they meet that person in real life for the first time and discover that they’re in love with a toad-like, 60-year-old, same-sex pervert, more than once, on purpose, deserve what they get, as far as i’m concerned.
although it didn’t take long once we met IRL for romance to blossom… 8)
Oh wow, that’s really cool. 🙂 That’s a long time to know each other without meeting in person. I bet if there were an online romance, you guys would have been driven to meet in person a lot sooner. But it looks like everything worked out perfectly.
okay, you got me… i posted that with two purposes: one was as a cleverly written invitation for everyone to feel special, and the other was because of a specific person – my wife, moe – who i wouldn’t know if it weren’t for internet. she and i knew each other on internet for 4 years, with no trace of “online romance”, before we met “IRL”.
i didn’t think you meant me, i was just replying. 🙂 i thought you had cleverly written it to be interpreted to mean anyone, so everyone could feel special. 🙂 but yeah, i always see stuff like that as lj stuff, because anything that i really want to communicate to people i interact with off-internet, i would just communicate to them off the internet. it’s amazing to me how many people in my life still don’t own computers at all.
oh yeah… you too… 8) you weren’t the one i had in mind, but you are definitely on the list… i find it strange first, that, people would assume that this is limited to your livejournal friends list, and second, that people would assume that it is limited to one person. probably a quarter of the people on my “friends list” are people i have never met in person, and probably never will meet in person, and easily half of the people i know, i know in one way or the other because of internet… but i’m weird, too…
i’m not likely to put that sentence in my journal, but you are definitely one of those people for me, and one of my very favorite people here