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Have you ever met someone because of Fluther?

Asked by kenmc (11773points) March 23rd, 2009

Any cool stories? On wis.dm many real relationships were formed and I was wondering if it’s the same for Fluther. There has even been a marriage (Simone and JPS as they are known) and a subsequent child from the two.

Also, thanks to Shilolo for helping me along with editing this question.

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asmonet's avatar

I’ve met the loves of my life.
Does that count?

I’ve found out people are on the site that knew people in my family, which is unsettling.

Kelly27's avatar

Not here but wis.dm, yes. ;)

jrpowell's avatar

I have had dinners/beers with 3 people from meeting them here.

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

What about noraasnave and maddiesmom? Did they meet on Fluther or did Fluther come after?

lefteh's avatar

delirium and I knew each other before Fluther, but the two of us recently had dinner with PnL.

kenmc's avatar

@asmonet Platonic or romantic?

@Kelly27 :) Wis.dm has been good to us both.

@johnpowell I find that kind of stuff as a sign of a good site!

Kelly27's avatar

@boots yes it has :)

asmonet's avatar

@boots: Let’s not put labels on my love, what do you say?

jlm11f's avatar

@lefteh – dinner? Wha??? That was definitely my lunch.

kenmc's avatar

@asmonet Ok. You do what you do and you do who you do. Not my place to label.

lefteh's avatar

It was at 5:00. That’s dinner for most people.

asmonet's avatar

Haha, PnL, scheduling fail.

figbash's avatar

Not yet, but there definitely some people on here that I intend to meet soon! Nocountry and JudoChop are definitely on that list for my next trip to Portland. Gailcalled is another priority the next time I head home, and ForestGeek and I emailed when he helped me with a project – but even though we live in the same city, we never had a chance to meet!

Kevisaurus's avatar

No, pretty much it’s the people I know already are on this site.

augustlan's avatar

Not yet, but when the zombie apocalypse comes…

asmonet's avatar

DUN DUN DUN. Lurve.

forestGeek's avatar

@figbash – Well one of these day we should finally! You still have that Bigwheel?

TitsMcGhee's avatar

I knew the user shockvalue irl, but I have yet to actually meet someone because of fluther. Who wants to come hang out, hmm?

Oh, and @asmonet is my wife. We got married on fluther. We’re having babies.

augustlan's avatar

Blue, sparkly babies if I recall.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

@augustlan: Correct you are.

Trustinglife's avatar

I found out about the site directly from Ben (aren’t I lucky?), but I haven’t met anyone yet because of Fluther. I’d sure love to though! That’d be really fun.

Edit: Oh wait, not true! I remembered one! I met @sferik because we both love baseball – we went to a Giants game together in SF last year. That was fun – he’s a great guy.

Kevisaurus's avatar

Not anyone that I want to have met yet.

shrubbery's avatar

No but I definitely plan to as soon as I can! No fair, I wanna go on a lunch/dinner date with PnL, Lefteh and Delirium, hmph :P

saranwrapper's avatar

Does anyone want to be BFF’s…...with me?

jrpowell's avatar

@figbash :: I had beers and french fries with nocountry and judochop. They live ten blocks away. Nice people.

EmpressPixie's avatar

Romantically, no. I’ve made a lot of great friends. My boyfriend joined Fluther very recently. It’s kind of strange, I used to talk about him every so often (mostly for pet questions), now I’m worried he’ll see me talking about how he called his cat Mister Snugglesworth this morning and be cranky.

But not that worried. And to be fair, it might have been Professor Snugglesworth.

elijah's avatar

I haven’t met anyone from fluther in real life, yet.
I was outside of @asmonet ‘s window the other night but I ran away when she came outside. She tried to nancy drew my ass.

EmpressPixie's avatar

@elijahsuicide: You mean you’re the zombie apocalypse???

casheroo's avatar

I haven’t been a part of fluther long enough, for anything like that. I do already know two people on fluther, in person. I don’t see them though. And we seem to avoid each other.

elijah's avatar

@EmpressPixie no, I was just the little thing making hamster/dove mating noises :-)

jonsblond's avatar

I haven’t met anyone yet but I have discussed the possibility with a couple of fellow jellies. We’ve also invited Marina over for a breakfast dinner of scrambled eggs. Hopefully she takes us up on the offer. :)

aprilsimnel's avatar

I haven’t met anyone IRL from this community, but I’ve only been active since the end of November last year. I don’t think I’ve met people in real life from a web community since the (now defunct) message boards for the band Soul Coughing and the (long gone) boards at the old Fametracker in 1999–2000. I’m good friends with a number of the Soul Coughing people still.

I would love a get-together with people from here. Who’s up for bowling? :D

nebule's avatar

still hoping ;-)

delirium's avatar

Gotta say, guys. I kind of considered it dinner, too. Lunch doesn’t do dessert.

essieness's avatar

I don’t think any jellies live anywhere remotely close to me… Texas anyone?

jlm11f's avatar

@delirium and @lefteh – No No! We set up to meet @ 3 pm. You both showed up an hour late and then we ate till about 5:15. But 3 pm = lunch!

…...

And i definitely ate dinner @ 1 am later on. :D

breedmitch's avatar

Met face to face? No.
But I have talked to another member on the phone once when she was visiting NY and I could help her out.

lefteh's avatar

@PnL: For the record, I was there at 3:05, not knowing where to go or what to do…waiting on Sara. But the point remains! We were eating at 5pm! That is dinnertime!

asmonet's avatar

All you guys made me rip a stitch.

It was worth it.

jo_with_no_space's avatar

Not yet. But maybe one day :)

mcbealer's avatar

I got to meet Augustlan about a month ago, and she’d every bit as cool in person as she is on fluther :)

augustlan's avatar

Mcbealer is much cooler than I am. :D

kenmc's avatar

This question makes me lawl now. :)

augustlan's avatar

I’ve since met with @mcbealer again, and met her lovely boyfriend @forestGeek. I also recently had dinner with @marinelife. I was hoping to meet up with a bunch more when the Aussies came to visit, but I got sick and missed the opportunity. :(

shrubbery's avatar

I’ve met @petethepothead, @marinelife, @rangerr, @IBERnineD, @PnL, @Aliie, @boots, @J0E, @lefteh, @timtrueman, @andrew, @ben, and @camertron in the last 5 weeks. Its been amazing. Unfortunately I missed out on seeing @augustlan and @johnpowell though. Next time!

free_fallin's avatar

@shrubbery I AM SO JEALOUS! :D

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