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drewbear ([personal profile] drewbear) wrote2009-08-20 10:04 am
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Daily Question

I was going through some old emails (why in the name of all that is good and sweet do I have email stored from 2000?!) and I noticed something odd, which prompted the following question:

How many people have you known online for years and years, and consider a good friend, and have never actually met face-to-face?

Just off the top of my head, [livejournal.com profile] ginmar and [livejournal.com profile] valarltd here on Livejournal, both of whom I've known for at least 4 or 5 years. There are a few guys elsewhere that fall into that category, including (until just this past May when we first met) [livejournal.com profile] blaireaubougon. This isn't even counting the people I may have only met once or twice in real life years and years ago who I keep up with online.

[identity profile] valarltd.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Four years, almost exactly. We met in 2005 (my last fall at the Library O'Doom)

I have several like you that I've never met.
Some like [livejournal.com profile] charlesks I haven't seen in a decade or more. Some like Naomi I've only seen once.