The web can be a scary place....

[Monk]

Lorena you are a smart woman. Its not just a dangerous place for women, but for men as well. Very dangerous. The first woman I talked to seriously online was very nice. We exchanged pictures and must have talked for a good 3 or 4 weeks. We set up to meet... I always let the woman decide where to meet and she picked a coffee house at a busy time 9pm (was a colleege city so 9 was a very busy and safe time to meet). Well she stood me up... was not surprised really. Next day did not get an email from her.... following day... nothing... next day I decided to email her and just make sure she was ok... that I did not say anything to make her not want to see me. Nothing....2 days later I got an email from a Mrs..... whatever her name was. It was a very nice email. She first appoligized to me for the situation, but apparently I have been talking to her 14 year old. The picture she sent me was her older sister. Apparently she saw this situation on an episode of the Simpsons and thought it would be 'fun'. She again apoligized and told me that she had read through the emails (her daughter saved them thank God) and understood that I did not initiate anything.

Understandbly this could have been VERY BAD for me had several things been different. Dont know how in the world I started up again online after that one. Kep thinking the police was going to arrest me for a while. Online is very dangerous for everyone involved if your not putting your witts about you.

Holy snappers, that is scary. The world is a crazy place. Thank goodness you got out of that one cleanly. Being a man is pretty dangerous, nowadays. The cuckoos jacked it up for us.

 

[ayrton]

I have a MySpace account and use it regularly. It's a great place to keep in touch with my British family, since one can post and comment on other people's photos. I really don't see how it really differs all that much from this place: you can send and receive messages from others or network with people that have common interests. The biggest difference is that you *can* (but don't necessarily have to) post a lot of private information about yourself, but I could do that here, too, if I wanted. A lot of people treat it like it's the central hub of their social lives, which is where I see the problem. But older adults tend to look down their collective nose at it as if it's some silly fad for 13-year-olds, when it has some legitimate uses.

 

[the_bird]

Lorena you are a smart woman. Its not just a dangerous place for women, but for men as well. Very dangerous. The first woman I talked to seriously online was very nice. We exchanged pictures and must have talked for a good 3 or 4 weeks. We set up to meet... I always let the woman decide where to meet and she picked a coffee house at a busy time 9pm (was a colleege city so 9 was a very busy and safe time to meet). Well she stood me up... was not surprised really. Next day did not get an email from her.... following day... nothing... next day I decided to email her and just make sure she was ok... that I did not say anything to make her not want to see me. Nothing....2 days later I got an email from a Mrs..... whatever her name was. It was a very nice email. She first appoligized to me for the situation, but apparently I have been talking to her 14 year old. The picture she sent me was her older sister. Apparently she saw this situation on an episode of the Simpsons and thought it would be 'fun'. She again apoligized and told me that she had read through the emails (her daughter saved them thank God) and understood that I did not initiate anything.

Understandbly this could have been VERY BAD for me had several things been different. Dont know how in the world I started up again online after that one. Kep thinking the police was going to arrest me for a while. Online is very dangerous for everyone involved if your not putting your witts about you.

That's what you get when you do a search for:

"Loves: Boys
Hates: My parents, algebra class"

Seriously, good thing you escaped from that safely, without appearing on Dateline NBC. There were a couple of young 'un who had put up profiles I responded to, but they both said pretty quickly that they were only 17 or whatever and that they had to lie to be able to post.

[Delete] [Delete] [Delete]

 

[fezzman]

Option "C" was that it was your wife's brother, not your sister's husband - but there's no humor in that!

Were the dog biscuits literal or methaphorical?

Oh, most definitely literal. Quite an odd one, she was. She was trying to 'bond' with our dog by sharing biscuits with her. And this was before us humans had dinner. That was the last time I saw her............

 

[fezzman]

Lorena you are a smart woman. Its not just a dangerous place for women, but for men as well. Very dangerous. The first woman I talked to seriously online was very nice. We exchanged pictures and must have talked for a good 3 or 4 weeks. We set up to meet... I always let the woman decide where to meet and she picked a coffee house at a busy time 9pm (was a colleege city so 9 was a very busy and safe time to meet). Well she stood me up... was not surprised really. Next day did not get an email from her.... following day... nothing... next day I decided to email her and just make sure she was ok... that I did not say anything to make her not want to see me. Nothing....2 days later I got an email from a Mrs..... whatever her name was. It was a very nice email. She first appoligized to me for the situation, but apparently I have been talking to her 14 year old. The picture she sent me was her older sister. Apparently she saw this situation on an episode of the Simpsons and thought it would be 'fun'. She again apoligized and told me that she had read through the emails (her daughter saved them thank God) and understood that I did not initiate anything.

Understandbly this could have been VERY BAD for me had several things been different. Dont know how in the world I started up again online after that one. Kep thinking the police was going to arrest me for a while. Online is very dangerous for everyone involved if your not putting your witts about you.

Wow, that could have been very ugly. What she thought would be 'fun' could have turned into a huge mess, had the mom not been understanding. Whew!

 

[Cheesefood]

OK, I'm going the other way on this one. I have a MySpace account and I check it regularly.

Last year, I started to get more curious about my friends from high school. I'd grown apart from a lot of them and I've been trying to find some of them for years. One night I was bored and googling and found one on MySpace. I signed up for an account and we swapped a few e-mails, then I forgot about it.

A few months later, I got an e-mail from someone from MySpace. I thought it was SPAM, but I checked it anyways and found it was a long-lost girlfriend. Over e-mails, we caught up with each other and she finally got to tell me some things about how I hurt her.

Then I found a guy who I grew up with but hadn't talked to in forever. He's in a band in San Fran.

Then a guy who was my best friend found me. He's married in Texas and HUGE in the SubGenius organization.

Then I found the girl I lost my virginity to. She's an artist in L.A.

On and on. I've re-connected with about a dozen friends who I lost along the way. After high school, I went to college and most of my friends went into the millitary. Now we're all connecting and catching up with each other. I still like the reactions my friends have when they find out I'm married and have a son. I was the hard-core punk pot-head drug-lover of the bunch.

One of the people I found is a guy I was great friends with until he decided he wanted to be an MP, which meant that he had to cut ties with me. A few months ago, I found his lil sister on MySpace and swapped a few e-mails with her. Next thing I know, their mom (who was like a mom to me, until I slept with her sister) was e-mailing me and begging for baby pictures.

It's a great way to meet up with old friends, but I have to say that my age group seems to be the upper-bounds for it.

 

[Cheesefood]

Understandbly this could have been VERY BAD for me had several things been different. Dont know how in the world I started up again online after that one. Kep thinking the police was going to arrest me for a while. Online is very dangerous for everyone involved if your not putting your witts about you.

Funny. When I was 20, I was playing some pinball at a movie theater while waiting for our movie to start. Out of no where, a girl taps my shoulder, hands me her phone number and says "You're cute, call me - I gotta go" and then takes off.

I saw her for a moment and she was attractive, so I'm thinking "S-C-O-R-E".

I called her the next day. We were talking for a few minutes when she asked how old I was. I told her I was 20. She told me she was 15. I thanked her for the compliment, but told her that was too young.

Besides, the 16 year old I was dating at the time would have gotten jealous.

I heard a joke once about MySpace:

"The bad thing about MySpace: lots of predators.
The good thing about MySpace: lots of prey"

 

[Treekiller]

One of the people I work with spends 6 of the 8 hours at work on my space, while the other two are spent at lunch. At least if they are going to waste time they should learn to brew and join a wonderful forum such as this.
OH Wait, then they may learn something useful and be productive in something.
Silly me, what was I thinking?