I didn't meet my SO online, but I'm so curious about where the internet matches met their SOs.

Explain, please!

If it was a dating website, please say which one.

I met my SO quite a few years ago on a gaming message board of all things. At first, we didn't particularly care for each other, but as time went on, she warmed up to me. I made a special effort of getting to know her, and the relationship just sort of took off from there. At it first it was communicating through the board and chat rooms, then instant messenger programs and finally over the phone.

We met while playing an online text-based game with a substantial, active chat community. Chatted for over a year before we met in person. Three years later, here we are.

We met on an AOL Pets and animals message board. I asked a question my hubby replied and we started communicating from there.

We met on "kiss.com" (which is now "match.com") back in 2003. I reluctantly "allowed" people to contact me from outside of the area where I lived, and my husband was the first person to contact me. I didn't want to meet people who lived in the U.S. for the obvious reasons, but once we met in person..... that was it!!!!! All the other Canadian men I met didn't work out.

We were both looking for a permanent relationship at the time and didn't know how else to meet people our age.

Wellllll.....we met on yahoo chat conference, where his friend introduced us to each other.
First I was interested in his friend...he (his friend) didn't care about me....then I lost interest and had other boyfriends...then his friend started caring about me....as I said...my interest was GONE...hehehe...my fiance and I kept chatting with each other and our interest in each other grew and grew, but we never went a step further, because he didn't want to hmmmm 'hurt' his friend or whatever....after 7 months of talking (toooooooo long for my taste ) he FINALLY decided to be selfish and 'not care' about his friend and here we are...I am going to marry my Mr.Right in something over a month YAYYYYYYYY....I couldn't be happier!!!

Diana

my husband sent me an E mail. since he was drop dead sexy.. I responded..

Message board. Thought he was funny. He thought I was funny. He sent me a PM regarding something or other and we started sending intermittent ones back and forth. Then one day (after a couple of months) we gave each other our MSN addys. Started chatting - just as friends and things developed from there.

mIRC room. Hehe.

My husband and I met throught Friendfinder.com, we started chatting one day, telling each other about past relationships and stuff, we were not at that time looking for a relationship so we took it slowly and met about 11 months later for real and now we are married

We met on pogo.com a gaming site...we were both in the same league. I wasnt really looking but he seemed to always be where I was we started talking then moved to skype and here we are today!~

Plentyoffish.com

we met at ChristianCafe.com in their chatroom. Both of us weren't looking to date anyone at the time, but we just kinda clicked.

We met in an Ireland Chat room on yahoo.

Voted other. My husband and I met on a cancer support chat room on mIRC.

It was the same for us

We met at Single Christian Network. We're actually featured on their testimonial page
http://www.singlec.com/scnendor2.htm

We met on ICQ in 2001. Something like I had changed my profile to include the German language after starting a German course at my university. I had several random Germans message me after that and my husband just happened to be one of them. Rest is bizarre history.

Muslim matrimony site. Not a dating site per se, but I think it is much like any "dating" site.

I didn't get out enough to meet many people, but I wanted someone to share my life with. So I took the search online, although I didn't seriously think I would find my partner there. It was a version of "when you least expect it." I was sincere in wanting a partner, but I thought I was wasting some time and getting an ego boost (I guess many people don't respond back, so it's a numbers game for some people, send enough invitations and you get more responses, right? So I was getting sent lots of those feelers from random people).

I talked to several people from the US, a couple other places, and Morocco. I guess I was a little jaded in my thinking. I thought nothing of it when I saw he was from Morocco. Didn't think it would stick. Perhaps if I thought I would really find a good match online, I might have initially told him, "I'm sorry, that's too complicated for me." It is kind of complicated, but I don't regret it. We did java chat from the website, moved to msn, added skype, then webcam.

And here we are.

BT

Scott-I looked at the link you posted. You're famous!


(sorry for those who have read this story a bajillion times )

We met on AOL instant messenger. Not in a chat room. To think of that freaks me out, to think if I never replied to his first IM. I was on AOL IM to talk to real life friends who moved away to college, etc. I never thought I'd marry someone I met on there. I was not looking for someone on the internet.

It was random but not completely random. I had put Christianity as one of my interests, so when Suj searched for new people to talk to, he put in that the interest would be Christianity, and that's how he found my screen name(along with lots of other screen names).

So I still find it amazing that out of all the names that would have appeared in that search, he sent me a message. My screen name was non gender so he didn't know if I was a guy or girl. He wasn't looking for love online either, just for conversation about Christianity. I definitely think God brought us together, and He brings people together in all sorts of ways.

We met on a penpal website called penpalworld.com

http://www.isketch.net

its a gamesite... like pictionary online... there is a specialized room for those who really take the time to draw well... its not about actually trying to guess quickly, but about admiring someones artistic ability... i would hang in there with several of my online buds... i thought he was very talented... loved watching him draw... after a while, we started chatting on msgr... and the rest is history

Games.com before it changed

we met in a MSN chatroom... both weren't looking for anyone.... it just happened...

Add me to the "wasn't looking for romance, it just happened" list. We met at a penpal website called penpal.net. I was just bored and looking for some interesting emails. He had posted a profile basically because he is a travelwhore and was hoping to meet people from around the world and have an excuse to visit their country I had done one long distance relationship before and had NEVER wanted to have to deal with that again; he had never planned on living in the States. And here we are, almost 3 years later.

other......

freaky circumstances:
we met on Camfrog- (chat program) a friend of mine from Costa Rica told me about it, so I visited the site, and downloaded the program, looked around for about an hour, & found out it was about 90% perverts with webcams!!! i was getting all kinds of PMs, and blocking people left and right-I had had enough. so, i was just about to delete the program when my hubby PM'd me. (no dirty talk! it was his BIRTHDAY and he was lonely!) His smile was genuine, his eyes were green & intense, and his conversation was sincere and interesting!!so......

I deleted the Camfrog *i dont recommend it *, and we moved over to Yahoo msng & MSN. We dated for a year and a half, and I wasn't sure I was ever gonna make it to Egypt, but I did it and I couldn't be more delighted!

{{cue the sappy love music}}

We met thru myspace then we im'd each other at ym

We met in a chatroom on ICQ in 2001. We were friends for ages til we had a yahoo voice conference and he kept making me say certain words over n over cos he loved my accent.

Ahhh another one hooked n reeled in with the accent

We met on cupidjunction.com we started as a friend and here we are a forever bestfriend.

We met in an online game, Star Wars Galaxies. I was not a Star Wars fan whatsoever, but a friend had gotten me into the game, and I ended up being hooked. One day we just came across each other and started chatting. Neither of us was looking for anyone at the time, but once we met in person two months later, we knew that we were meant to be together. Four months later, we married and started the immigration process two months after that, and here we are today!!

We met on a Muslim Marriage Site. Global Rishda. I had been on other sites and actually I wanted to see what was possible. I wanted someone who already was established in US. But he ignored that and responded. We began talking on MSN and Yahoo. Web cam and someitmes phone because at that time he was in Pakistan. But when he went to UK we spoke by phone every day. Now it has been over 2 and !/2 years going on three. He got the visa , will be here in USA in late June.

I still cant beleive it, after all this time of wanting to be together it still seems like a dream. Im very happy and I am ready, no second thoughts ever. We will never forget our journey to get to this point.

I was frequenting a music messageboard, dedicated to an alt-country artist who's music I love above and beyond anything else.
One day there was a thread about compliments and I was having fun with this person who's name I had seen on there before. We were both being wise asses and then I said something about the other person being a smart woman ... and it turned out it was a guy.
Oops.
So, I virtually blushed and apologized, and that's how we became friends on there. It took a bored day at work for him, my lazy saturday and a porn-spammer that drove us off the board for us to start emailing ... and chatting ... and texting and calling ...

I would have liked it if he had been living round the corner and not 5000 miles away in Michigan, but still: He's the bestestest thing that ever happened to me and I can't get my visa soon enough

My ex met me in a chat room. Long ago, in 1995.


It didn't work out...obviously....

We met in an on line role playing game called Everquest about 5 years ago. We were both in the same guild and used to group together and with other friends. We became really good friends but when he was off line for a bit when his PC broke down I realised how much he had come to mean to me. We met in person last year and are hoping to get married this year.

We met in a chat room unrelated to dating or looking for a spouse. We just connected and exchanged e-mails and MSN handles, and the conversation never stopped!

Me and my husband met on myspace.

I watched a film called "Garden State" and I loved it... being bored at home, i decided to go onto myspace and look for people who also liked it... and there was my russell.. we started talking and I just happened to already have a holiday booked to Florida, so we met up and BAM here we are!!

Russ actually proposed to me like my fav scene from the film.... awwwwww how cute!!

yahoo games

A messageboard dedicated to music...Knew of him since 2000, exchanged one or two words here and there, then one day we got talking about a photo I'd posted as a joke and went from there

Met dear hubby through a credit card issuing institution that outsourced customer service support. Started out as friends ...Dear hubby is an existing customer and I used to be the QA officer..aihihihi. Although I've had a profile made by a good friend of mine in match.com I couldnt use it anyway unless I pay thru a credit card, I didnt have one . God bless to you all.

Me and my SO other met through a dating web site. It didn't start that way though. We started out just talking. It was a number of months after that we actually started talking on the phone and from there a relationship developed.

www.filipinaheart.com---My DEAR HUBBY meet on this WEBSITE..check it out;now i am so happy with him by my side.

We met in a Yahoo chatroom. It was his first time in a chat room, and while I usually went into Florida based rooms, I went into this room that was not state specific. He caught my attention first by asking if anyone wanted to get married. I thought was was so bizzarre to just through out in a chat room. Then after I asked where everyone was from and their age, location as being from Port Canaveral/Miami. He IMed me and we started chatting from there. He then said that he used to live in FL but was now in London. We clicked instantly and have really been inseprable ever since.

We met through another guy I knew online's msn address.. We talked for a little bit, I put him on my icq list.. and we didn't really like each other for a few months.. eventually we ended up talking more.. (not sure how that happened...) and eventually became really good friends.. That lasted for 2 years (he had another long time girlfriend at the time) and eventually they broke up and after a while, we got together... and now we've been married 2 years.. And its amazing

actually it's a secret lol i mean not a lot of people know, but we met on a site called midnightbootycall.com looool we were both curious and first met there, but we were both on a lot of sites too : wemetonline , myspace, blackplanet migente etc...

and it says nothing about our rlp !! since we decided not to have sex before getting married lol it's just a coincidence lol i promise! lol

i think we'll officially say we met on another cleaner site lol

I voted other. My husband and I met in a Yahoo! Chatroom. I was the one who clicked on his name. I didn't think it would develop into anything too serious because he lived like 2-3 states away from me at the time...but things developed quite quickly and we fell in love and are now married!

I voted other, too.

My fiance and I met online in an MMORPG called World of Warcraft. My then-boyfriend pestered me to play at the time it was released and I reluctantly gave it a try. It quickly blossomed into a big thing for me, my relationship ended, and I joined a raid group that my fiance was in. After spending several months in each other's company, we realised that we had a great deal in common, and the rest was history.

We still play together, since that and Skype are what we feel we can "spend time together" with, hehe.

I voted other as well. My hubby and I met in an mIRC chatroom about music.

Tommy and I met the same way, playing the same game, Everquest.

Dawn.

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Mark and I met on a horror movie messageboard called The Axis Archives. After a summer of posting together on there, we discovered our tastes in movies and music were a lot alike. On August 1st of that year, we started sending pm's back and forth and our post counts ground to almost a halt.

Diego & I met on latinlovesearch.com!!