This may have been done before but I didn't know what search would come up with this if so. If it's a repeat, hopefully it wasn't too recent so that maybe most people haven't seen it before.

We technically became slightly familiar with each other on a forum site, but I only posted there a couple of times before we met in person for the first time. I think we both were kinda intrigued by each other from our posts before we met, but it was when we first laid eyes on each other that there were definitely sparks so to speak. So really, I would have to say some of each.

Dammit! This was supposed to be a poll... I had the choices entered and everything. No idea where I went wrong but I will try to fix it!

Ok, not only can I not add the poll at this point, it also wont let me delete it and start over, or even edit it any further at this point. Apparently I suck at the internet

We met on a forum...the zwan message board. We're both MASSIVE Smashing Pumpkins fans, and that was Billy Corgan's band after the original SP lineup broke up. Luckily our love outlasted Zwan because they broke up a while back.

We just started as friends and nothing more, we didn't start dating while online, we both wanted to wait until we met. So we met and we fell in lurve and thats the end of that. We dated long distance for a year and then he came to Canada to live with me for two years and now I'm down here with him.

tra la la. <3

No dice - sorry. I met my fiance here in America at a dinner party. I do know several folks who met online, and later married (including my sister). No real recipe for success, each to his/her own! Good luck.

We met on City of Heroes...an online MMORG.
Neither of us were looking for anything...his character caught my eye, I private messaged him...we teamed for a bit...talked occasionally for months, then started talking more, then moved to MSN, video chatting, voice chatting...I was sooo smitten and finally he came to Canada to visit me for the first time in September 2006 and it was love at first kiss...actually...I loved him before I ever touched him.

It was meant to be <3

We met on EHarmony in Feb 2006, we commuted via email and phone for just a week and then met on the beach near my home for coffee, there was an instant connection! We were engaged in Oct 2006 and got married in June 2007.

Because I am just 5 minutes from the U.S. border and just a 1/2 hour drive from my husband, we have been able to see each other every weekend and usually a "date" night during the week since we met. We have been blessed that way. On July 21st, I will finally be going for my interview in Montreal.....3 weeks today.....can't wait!

Nice! My guy lived on the same street as Billy Corgan -- not sure whether it was where he grew up or where he lived at some time later or what, but it seems like an interesting trivia fact nonetheless.

We met online.

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we met online in a Christian chat room. We were in the chatroom portion of the website (he had just joined the site about a week before our conversation) and the group of us were talking about how fun it would be to go on a world tour and visit everyone -- first we would start in Paris, France to see our friend AJ, then to London, England to see our friend Tim, than on to Nova Scotia to see me, and on and on. That's when Jerry piped up with "Nova Scotia? Isn't that near Germany?" and then I piped up with I said "ah yes, another Yankee who didn't pay attention in Geography class LOL" We all had a good laugh over it and moved on with the conversation. Soon after Jerry PM'ed me wanting to apologize for offending me (if he had) -- I told him that I should apologize for calling him a dumb yankee!......and I think we chatted for five hours that day. We literally were together from that point on.

We both posted on a poker forum (still do) and I got a xbox and was adding people who posted their gamertags on that site and he was one of them. He posting asking if it was really me or someone playing a joke, so I sent him a message confirming that it was me. We started bugging each other, all the time lol. So I guess its a combo of a forum and the xbox.

We met online

Yeah I have no doubt! When we met we had a number of obstacles that were significant enough that I kept thinking it was better to put him out of my mind and try to meet someone that I could reasonably be with (i.e. someone local, among other things), but any time I met someone I would subconsciously compare him to Jamie and no one else could even come close to measuring up. I gave up on that idea a couple of years ago. Five years later, I am still completely fascinated by him!

The question in my post came to mind after reading that someone had their interviewer remark that the majority of the cases they see are online meetings. The internet is obviously great for bringing people together that would never have crossed paths otherwise.

Glen and I actually work for the same company, him in the Philly office me in Toronto. We talked on the phone for about a year before we met, mostly for work and would just chat personally sometimes, he sounded really sweet... then his boss invited me to their office Christmas party in Dec. 2006, and I finally met him in person... We connected immediately and danced together, I didn't want to come back the next day! We started corresponding over e-mail/phone and he invited me back shortly thereafter... we have been going strong ever since!

My Viktoria is from Ukraine, and there is no doubt that most American/Ukrainian couples meet online or through agencies. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with either of those - whatever works. We are totally prepared for the Vice Consul, and every one else to believe that I bought her from a catalog or something. The point is, it doesn't really matter what other people think. They cannot possibly know your heart. That you consciously tried to put him out of your mind and couldn't tells all.

We were Internet penpals. I was intrigued with the idea of the far North and actually had wanted to correspond with someone who lived in the Arctic. The website I went to allowed me to write to someone from Canada, but it didn't specify where they lived. So, I wrote to several interesting people (and one very scary dude who did live above the Arctic Circle) and learned more about their lives. There was something special about my hubby from the beginning, even though neither had been looking for romance. One night, after much alcohol, I suggested talking on the phone to hear each other's accents. We did, said, "whoa this is weird, we'll never do this again". 14 months later, we had been talking on the phone daily. We met in Atlanta and then spent a month road tripping up the East Coast. And the rest is history!!!

We met online...FilipinoFriendFinder.com

Online, in World of Warcraft

We both found in each the best team mate ever, and after playing together everyday for many months, with some OBVIOUS flirting ( and pictures, and MSN conversations) we finally admitted our infatuation for each other...

So we met in person, and Voila! the rest is history!

Crazy! Me and my hubby met on an MMORPG Final Fantasy 11 and our characters really stood out to eachother and we became close friends and then more! We are now happily married, but had no idea how hard it would be marrying someone from another country. Neither he nor I ever realized that when we finally got married, it would be so hard to live together. We have been apart for several weeks, 13ish and still have another 6 before he goes before the border and requests entry for the birth of the baby. He will be here only 3-1/2 weeks, but we keep hearing that no matter what, it depends on the border guard on whether you will get through or not. Sorry went off on a tangent. My husband and I met online and it was 11 months after we met online that we finally met in person here in the US... then almost another year (well, 8 months) before he came here and we got married. (I loved my hubby before ever touching or seeing a real picture of him.)



Seriously? Wow.... I didn't realize that we had that in common. I know a lot of people who left ffxi to play wow! We first messaged on MSN after leaving FFXI... that is awesome...

we met online through cherry blossom by accident i was looking she was just there to talk to friends i got involved with the chat room and made several friends there on was a gal in california when ady came online our friend told her she had someone she had to meet and we talked for quit a while then parted it was after that i panicked because i did not set a time to meet her again i got little sleep as i was checking to see if she was there and bugging everyone in the chatroom if they had seen her online it was awful when we finally connected again she said everyone told her i was looking for her from then on i knew what i wanted and all i had to do was convince her after a short time i finally worked up the nerve to send her an sms through yahoo in her own language ( side note.... if you do not know the language get someone who does...lol...) and sent it to her while she was at work her first response was "is this a proposal" seems it does not translate exactly and i even spent 2 hours with an online dictionary but her second reply was "most definitely yes" and the rest as they say is history. i would not trade a second of our time or our visa journey for anything because as the joys, triumphs and heartaches of ours and others we share with here we continue to grow closer and our bonds stronger we miss each other but so do a lot of other couples and we always know the day will come when we will be back in each others arms.

As everyone else we met online (in a canadian free website called plentyoffish). I wasn't looking for anyone in term of relationship but more for someone to talk with because i was going through a little hard time and confusion about my life at that point. I was the one making the first move (his profil just sounded quite nice, easy to talk etc) and he answered the next day... after a while we decided to read all the Harry Potter together (he never read them and i am a fan)... and from one email to another, our friendship became a little more, and a little more, and a little more...
A couple of weeks later (quite fast), he came to visit me in Quebec city. It was quite nice but i was still in my confusion of my last relationship... so our start was quite bumpy.
Then a year later of trips here and there (to make a long story short) we decided to get maried... and here we are today !
The happiest couple on the planet !

There seems to be a majority of Canadian American couples who met on line through a mutual interest forum:-). We are another. We had both joined a spiritual teachings forum around the same time - summer of 2001 - and resonated with each other's posts. I found myself always reading what he had to write, and he found himself doing the same with my posts. After September 11, he co-founded a weekly online meditation group to help people deal/come to terms with/ 'do' something about the tragedy. A year later I joined the meditation group and so we got to know each other better - still really just as acquaintances. In January, 2003 I began to have problems with my computer, and I knew that Joe worked with computers (although I didn't know any details) so I IMed him and asked if he could help., He did, and we chatted afterwards for about 4 hours. He IMed me back the next night to see if everything still worked with the computer (it did), and that started our nightly IM chats. After a few weeks, we had our first phone call - and shortly afterwards we both realized we had fallen in love without knowing it was happening until it had. Neither of us were looking for a relationship, but we sort of just 'fell' into this one. We realized that we should meet in person before we decided if this was the real thing or just another 'internet' thing, so he flew up to Detroit in April and I picked him up at the airport. In person was even better than on-line! I flew down to visit him in Atlanta in May, and he proposed. We filed our I-129f in June, 2003 and the rest is history.

We met in person, he was a student came to my city to visit a cousin.
Barb

We also met online playing World of Warcraft. I never thought I'd be someone who played any kind of video/computer game until an ex got me into it. I'm so glad that he did or I wouldn't have met my husband. I think we had been talking for maybe a week or two, just as friends when I knew I needed him in my life permanently. I loved him before I ever touched him! On our first visit, he came to Edmonton to meet me, and his plane was delayed quite awhile, so we left the airport around 3 am. While driving home, we got pulled over by the police in a routine checkstop, but I was SO worried because I was so giddy. I was afraid he'd think I was drunk!

We met online as well.. random chat room conversation and he asked me if we could continue our conversation via MSN. I gave him my "fake" e-mail address because I didn't know if he was a freak or not, and then I gave him my "real" addy a few weeks later. We met "in person" 3-4 months later in Bar Harbor, ME (geographical halfway point for us)

Wow. I'm kinda feeling like I'm missing out by not knowing anything about online games.

We met at a arts festival. I was living an hour away on a TN work status and had lots of friends in Denver. So I went up for the weekend and we went to this Dark Arts Festival with bands and drinks etc. Friends wanted to go home early that I was staying with, so met up with other friends I knew and they said for me to stay till the end and I could crash at their place. She had to go take photos at the one bar (festival was a couple of bars doing art, dancing, bands etc) for the band, so I went with her.

Sat down next to my soon to be wife. Her and I looked at each other right away and started to talk. I asked her to hold my beer and I'd be back in a minute. An hour later I returned because I got caught up in talking to some other people I knew in the other part of the bar. Came back and she was still there with my beer.

That's the short simple version of it. Ended up dating a few months after (still lived an hour away) that meeting and got married a year or so later.

Funny thing is we later realized we had actually seen each other years before at another club. Since I had a foot brace on (big blue thing) from breaking my toe in soccer, she recalled seeing me at the club dancing in it. That was kind of cool to find out we actually crossed paths before without realizing it...

we met in person. a group of us from a triathlon forum had met at a race a couple of years before and we keep in touch still. we try to get as many of us as possible together annualy at some race or another. one year, one of the fellows drove up to the race in Memphis from Louisiana with his friend -and i'm now married to that friend.

after that first meeting we kept in touch via email and phone. he decided to come out to watch me race in Wisconsin a couple of months later and I then returned the favour by going to watch him race in Hawaii. We've been together ever since and will be returning to race in Wisconsin this September - the spot where we had our 'first dates'.

k

Joel and I met online as well. I had just separated from my ex (LONG story that one) and moved in with my mother who had just been diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer that had metastacised into her bones and lungs. There were no support groups in the area, and the one that I did find only met once a month for an hour. As I was researching the drugs being poured into my mom's body I came across a website that offered online support. Never being much of an online chatter, I was hesitant but decided to check it out. This was in April 2003. This group accepted me with "open" arms...virtually. These people knew exactly what I was feeling and understood them. In November 2003 "Fuzzness" came into the room...apparently he was a regular but I had not met him since I was not in there every day. He truly understood my fears, my anger, my confusion...he had lost his father less than two years before so he knew what I was going through...and would eventually go through. You know, I don't even remember what started it all, I remember being introduced to him and his words had a kindness that struck me. I don't remember who private messaged who first, but it doesn't really matter. We connected in a way I had never EVER connected with anyone else...and I know that sounds hokey but it's true. We started chatting privately (on mIRC) as friends...we both weren't looking for anything more. I was not done with my divorce at the time and he was just coming out of a bad relationship. Well, that friendship began to deepen, even though neither one of us would admit it for nothing! We met face to face in July 2004...my first time on a plane and out of the country! Momma thought I had lost my senses...but I wasn't nervous. I *knew* him. Anywho, that trip began a series of back and forth visits until he and I decided to marry and start this visa journey in 2005. He arrived here in 2006.

Momma eventually met him on several occasions...loved him...and gave us her blessings before she passed away just before our wedding. I was told long before I met Joel that sometimes good things come out of the saddest of circumstances. Momma was right it seems.

Same here Krikit, I'm still wondering what an MMORG is?

I had to look it up...

MMORG Massively Multiplayer Online Racing Game
MMORG Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MMORG

Ohhhh got it!! I am a "games virgin!"

Karen, what a beautiful story.. truly an amazing and wonderful way to start a life together.

We're in the good company of all the people who met while gaming. We met while playing World of Warcraft. We have found out since that we created our accounts within days of each other and we met in-game about two weeks after that...it's almost like fate was tired of waiting and pushed us together. Neither of us was looking for anything (I was dating a guy at the time who I broke up with about a year later). We met in person about 6 months after I broke up with the ex (no...Dennis wasn't the reason we broke up, we were still just friends when we met in person for the first time). When we were finally together in person fireworks went off and everything clicked.

We met in person, through work - he sells advertising and we were buyin' what he was sellin'...well, I was anyways!! We'd known each other for a while before we began dating, and would see each other at work-related events all over the US and Canada. I ran into him at a bar in Vegas during conference, he rescued me from some persistent suit-types, and the rest is history! A year later we were married in Vegas during the same conference.

My friend Vicky studied in Australia for the summer, where she met a British guy named Wayne at her hostel. He was backpacking through Australia that year. When Vicky showed me her Australia photos, I couldn't believe that she didn't hook up with this hot guy! They stayed in touch through emails. When Vicky and I planned our month long holiday in London, Wayne agreed to show us around. When we were planning our trip, Wayne had a girlfriend (much to my dismay), and I started dating someone too. But by the time Vicky and I got to London in April, Wayne and his girlfriend had broken up, and my relationship was on the rocks. We didn't intend to have a long distance relationship, we just hung out as much as possible while I was in London, and we had a really great time.

After I went home, we talked every day and I realized that he was sweeter and more interesting than any guys back home that I had dated. I owe it all to luck. I'm so lucky that Vicky and Wayne stayed at the same hostel!

Online - with a bit of a twist. I'm the Canadian, but have a lot of friends here in NC. I was staying with friends when I decided to check out the local personals.... wasn't looking for anything long-term, as I'd be heading back to Canada in a couple of months, but thought it would be nice to meet some friends for dinner, movies, hanging out on weekends, etc. I specifically posted "LOCAL ONLY" in my profile; then I get a sweet email from ths guy in upstate NY. Even after explaining that that I did not live in NC, was only visiting, he decided to drive all the way from NY to NC to meet me....... had a GREAT time together, but I was headed back to Canada, he back to NY. We kept in touch, and I actually returned to NC shortly thereafter to be baptized. Mr. NY once again drove all the way to NC to be with me at my baptism.... and the very day he was headed back up north, he got a call for a job offer in an NC town 2 hours from where I was staying with my friends! How's that for fate??!!! We saw each other every weekend, and the rest was history! He claims that he knew immediately that I was "the one" for him.... I was sort of in la-la-land, because the idea of getting married and moving to the US was not on my agenda. I was actually looking into overseas missions opportunities.... but God had a different plan for me, and brought this absolute angel into my life .... I could not be happier!!! So I would say that our "initial contact" was online, but God arranged the rest so that we could have this wonderful life together

We met in person-at a poster session in a chemistry conference. Such nerds, we are.

We met online at a music website.

Thanks. I had no idea what that was, either. Or any of the other game acronyms being used.

we met randomly in a MSN chatroom... and here we are over 6 years later still going strong...

We met online in a Yahoo teen chatroom when we were both 15. We started chatting online regularly for about 2 years. Then we started talking on the phone every night for hours on end when we were 16/17. I seriously used to stay up alllll night to talk to him on the phone. Then when we were 19 we met in person in NYC. After chatting as friends for 4 years we knew that it was going to lead into something more and as soon as we met we were in love.

We've now been dating for almost 5 years long distance, been chatting for 9 years and are still going strong. I'm hoping to be there in March 2009.

Met online on a music message board for furtherseemsforever. I was one of the queen bees of the board and he immediately tried to take me down since I was drunk with internet power! haha I said that if he was such a hot shot he should post pictures of himself. He did, and I was like.."jesus...he's hot!"

I got up the courage to call him on the phone in november of 2004. By december we were talking every night. I went home from university to my parents house for Christmas and my parents were like, "oh jared called..who is jared??"

I took a greyhound from Ottawa, Ontario to Newark, NJ on the spur of the moment to meet him. Those 10 hours were some of the most nerve racking of my life. It was literally love at first sight, even if we already "knew" each other.

Many visits and a move later, here we are.

Met my husband 9 years ago through work....we stayed as friends even though I got laid off.....got re-hired back into the same company and we started dating 3 years ago. Funny thing is that during our friendship he was in a long term relationship that didn't work out and I was previously engaged which didn't work out either.

We did not and have not advertised our relationship at work.

Funny thing is that I had a rule on not dating people at work. He was my exception!

We met online playing Everquest. We actually were friends for close to a year since we were in the same guild we group together aften. I played alot almost everyday and most of the day/night. It was my way out of the hell i was living in. Ive been playing about 5yrs or so and him even longer but he started out on a different server then the servers merged . He was always a sweet man. Well our guild team speak so we could talk alot. (Seperation and divorce in process took a year to get through).Meanwhile, A little chocolate martini kicked in and out comes the flirting. We met in person about a month and half later.

Matt and I belonged to a interactive group fanfiction site for Final Fantasy 7 back in 1997. We talked a lot, wrote together, went from game to game together (Eve, City of Heroes, Achaea, etc.) Finally met in person four years later and had been dating 3 years online then. And now we've known each other for 10 years and just celebrated our 8 year anniversary.

We met online playing cards (pinochle), I was cocooning with my computer after ending an awful marriage. We kept ending up as partners and I eventually asked if his nick was his first or last name? - he reponded 1st. Which in a few weeks led to are you male or female? - his response was M. Now almost 8 years later, we are getting ready to apply for our K1.
Janet

We met online too (AOL). We both have a passion for photography, which is why my hubs instant messaged me. I was in South Africa, he was in the US. Long story short, we got to know each other for six months, I visited for three weeks, and we started the process for me to move here. Wasn't always easy, but it was the best decision I've ever made!

First off I just want to say how absolutely wonderful the internet really is bringing so many people together. My and my fiance actually met in person. We met camping in Wasaga Beach, ON. He was actually living in Toronto during that time and was camping with his friends. I always tell people fate brought us together (I know cheezzzy!!!) however my girlfriend and I set off on a weekend adventure, we were supposed to stay inSable Beach, ON but didn't like the area at all so we drove around until we found a motel to stay at. While we were at the motel we ran into a bunch of people who were on their way to Wasaga Beach for Blue Light Motel Concert that was taking place that weekend. I told my girlfriend we should try out Wasaga and if it doesn't work out we will just leave. Well we ended up at this rinky dink campsite in Wasaga Beach and the first group of people we started talking to were my fiance and his friends. I must say it wasn't love at first sight (he was wearing a cowboy hat and I absolutely detested cowboys hats at the time soI didn't pay much attention to him) however later that night we met up going into the same bar at the same time and from there on in it was history. We spent all night talking and have been talking every first. It has been 4 years for us now and hopefully we will be together by the end of July, my interview is July 15!!!

my hubby is kind of embarrassed that we met on the internet and hates it when I tell people that we did

I always tell him thought that if it hadn't been for the internet we would have never met....

We also met on eHarmony in Spring of '07. I joined the same month his membership was ending - thank goodness he nudged me to respond to his questions or we might have missed our chance. We traded a couple emails, chatted for 2-3 weeks, then traded phone numbers - he called the very next day and came down to Oregon to visit two weeks later. Now I've moved up to Bellingham, WA to be closer to him so we can see each other more often than a weekend every 4 weeks - he's just across the border outside Vancouver, BC. It's been the best!

People are still embarassed about that?

I met my husband on ICQ. We maybe had 10-15 conversations in 2.5 years. Then I went to Germany because I wanted to get to Lithuania, but I couldn't afford it unless I could get my uni to pay for it. The only way that happened was that I had to take a summer course in Germany that was only a few km from where my husband lived. We only met in person because that summer program set me up to live with this insane elderly woman and I needed to be resuced fast because the program wasn't going to move me on Saturday night. I liked when the program's coordinator said I didn't understand German culture when I didn't want to stay in the room of this woman's dead son or wash my hands before going from any room to the next or ask for the room with the phone in it to be unlocked...