Pajiba

What the hell?

UM?

{hold me, I'm scared}

{PS I'm never getting a Facebook acct NOW. Geez!}

I met my current boyfriend online. Actually we met on a trashy hookup site, but we didn't do the trashy hookup thing because he lived in Wisconsin.
Then he came here. I love him dearly and he loves me. It's kind of awesome.
He met his best friend of 10 years in a Yahoo chat room. So that worked out well too.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Do not watch this trailer if you want to truly enjoy the movie, I've read that it reveals too much. I've heard it's great if you watch it without knowing anything. As far as I know, it has something to do with the Internet or Facebook or chat rooms or something, and has received rave reviews.

You should put a warning of that so people will know.

I actually did meet a girl from fametracker.com. I was in Dallas, she was in Houston, and I can't remember exactly how we became friends on the site but we wrote to each other enough that when I was visiting some family in Houston I asked if she wanted to meet for lunch. She was amenable and we met and got along great. I actually visited her and her boyfriend a few more times. Unfortunately she moved away and I have lost her out in the world. Pity. She was a lot of fun.

I've met tons of people from the internet and aside from some of them being general asshats, as with real-life friends that seem cool at first and then start rotting more quickly the longer you know them, I have never found myself chained in a basement/farmhouse/warehouse/abandoned factory/etc.

It's just a matter of being safe. Make sure multiple people know where you're going, who you're seeing, what you're doing, and other people have phone contact with the person. Leave a shit-ton of contact info. Meet in public places at first if possible. Also try to be a halfway decent judge of character and trust your instincts.

All of my favorite friends are people I met online and then visited. Sorry, real-life friends, it's the truth.

Who drives all the way to some stranger's farm, arrives in the dark, and then goes straight to the shop? Try the house, idiot! You're just asking for trouble!

Just to let you guys know google chrome is warning me that your site contains ads that contain malware and "IT MAY HARM MY COMPUTER".

I've met a few people in real life that I met online. I did some pretty unspeakable things to them in my shed. Thats just how Michiganders role.

The difference (to me) about making friends online versus in person is merely that online allows one's expectation management to get out of control more easily.

My guess: She's a dancer, she sings, she's been dead for a year.

While I've never had the pleasure of meeting a true live Pajiban (I met a spambot once, the conversation was entirely one-sided), I just always assumed it came with the promise of possible dismemberment. Was this not the case?

But in all seriousness, I've been doing the internet dating thing for a while now and it seems to be perfectly fine. Nobody has killed me (as far as I know) and I've never been trapped in someone's basement. It's just like anything: sometimes you meet winners and sometimes you meet serial killers. It happens!

Well, I've met lizzieborden, lainiefig, and katers, and I can tell you without hesitation that they are utterly delightful and not scary in the least. The only one I'd worry about chopping me up is lizzieborden, and.... well, I mean, her name is lizzieborden, for crying out loud.

No One Can Hear You Scream On Facebook

OK there WAS that one time early on in my and MrFig's relationship when he was driving me to the airport one night at like 5am and I saw him grab his gun and I thought "OH HOLY SHIT HE CANNOT BEAR TO SEE ME LEAVE AND I WILL DIE HERE TONIGHT OMG I AM WITH A PSYCHO" then I realized that

a) It was 5am and I was on no sleep for 24 hours

and

b) We were in Texas and EVERYONE has a freakin' gun.

I don't see what was so creepy about the farm aside from it being at night. I think I even own that same horse trailer that was parked in the driveway. Did they film this at my house without me knowing?

From the trailer I got that he was the creepy stalker, obsessing about her and her whole family, then showing up at her house at night without calling first and creeping around peeping into her windows with his friends. He's the freakshow, not her.

I've been online dating for years and have lost track of how many men I've met from online dating sites. Met, not copulated with. Stop clutching your pearls, you silly Pajibans. I follow the advice given above about trusting your instincts, having a friend know where you are going and who you are meeting up with, meeting in a public place etc. I've never had a real problem. If someone is pushing me to meet too soon or at my house or just gives me the heebies, I end communication and never give out my phone number or email addy until after I have met them and have decided they are worth talking to again later. I tend to exchange emails for a few weeks before deciding to meet.

Also, I avoid men with online monikers like bendoverilldrive or letsf*ck. I'd ask who they think they are going to attract with those screen names, but there probably are women out there who respond favorably to that kind of thing.

It's an interesting concept but I'm not sure if I could really get into this. I'd spend the first two thirds of the film waiting for the chilling, mind bending, terrifying reveal. And it'll be lame. Because this is just Blair Witch online.

And meeting people who I've met online would require putting on pants and leaving my room, so no thanks.

P.S. Facebook is so over. Know how I know? Because I joined it.

Met up with a guy whose blog I used to read and comment on (I was going with a friend to a music fest in his city which was 4 hours away from me). We had waaay too many drinks and flirted a lot, but nothing happened. Kept talking/flirting for months then he drove to my city to visit. We dated for 8 months after that, alternating who would drive where each weekend. It ended on great terms and and we still email occasionally (though, not too often as he now has a live-in gf).

I have also met up with a person I met through the facebook group, but I did take the precautions of meeting in a public place and letting my roommates know where I was going. It was a blast, although the experience may have been slightly scarring for him since we wound up watching Teeth.

Che - Only if it won't harm my computer.

I've made many IRL friends from having met them over the net before. And, although it's true that people can fake who they are online, it is also true that when they're honest, they're BRUTALLY honest. One cool thing about meeting people online is that you first meet who they are inside before you meet who they are outside. You can learn about their hopes and dreams, their interests, their opinions, all that good stuff before you ever judge them based on their appearance.

But most telling in my case, my current girlfriend is a girl I met over the internet(MySpace, to be specific). She is the cutest, sweetest person I know. You look at her and you instantly wanna hug her, she's so approachable and cuddly. She is friendly, intelligent, has a great sense of humor and a GORGEOUS singing voice(she actually participated in Objetivo Fama, the Puertorican equivalent of American Idol, natch).

And she is an absolute ravenous beast in bed.

So yeah, I can vouch that, if one has good judgment, one can meet awesome people online.

I think it makes no difference how one meets, one approach doesn't guarantee more success than another. There are the same number of assholes out there whether you meet them online or in person (same goes for good people). One should merely be realistic in expectations...online and otherwise.

I don't think I could meet anyone from Pajiba in real life. I won't even add you guys on facebook because I have this amazing, perfectly imagined vision of everyone that I couldn't bear to have destroyed. You're probably all better than I imagine anyway but still. It's like when you can't watch the film adaptation of your favorite novel because it will destroy your vision of the story.

This seemed fairly boring and predictable to me. The first half of the movie seems like its gonna be all mushy getting to know you baby talk crap and the other half seems like its gonna be a poor suspense movie maybe with some torture but I doubt that. He'll go there the girl will most likely have some kind of friends waiting to kill him and he'll narrowly escape and then the movie will end. Cops might get involved. BORING.

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