[HPFGU-OTChatter] Fictional love, poverty, Mrs Lestrange, horrible hairballs

[Evil Flame]

> When those of you who did meet fellow listmembers after knowing them
online only, how did they compare to their list personas??
>
> Which reminds me of my gloom on-list about my planned trip to the US in
late June this year, in which I might, of course, meet some of you, a
prospect I find slightly scary.  What kind of Bombadilling, acronymming,
cross-cultural analysing, copious post writing humourist have I created in
this 'Tabouli' character?  How is my real self ever going to measure up??
Eeeeee!


I can't say for this list, but I met my two best friends in the world
online.  I recently met one of them for the first time in the middle of Dec
and we both worried about getting along in real life a bit before she showed
up.  She was making a several hundred mile trip to see me and I was the only
person she really knew well here.   We got along famously.  We were both
exactly the same as we had seemed online and there was a very added sense of
what we could share about ourselves without the hassle of typing out
everything.  I world say we're even closer now and she plans on coming back
to see me for a week in April.  I would say don't worry so much.  Unless you
are intentionally altering your personality on list, then you are coming
through.

-Flame