There is a risk I might sound like Pollyanna, but so far I’ve only met nice blogfriends. Yesterday evening I met with Vista at 8 and I returned home at 1:30. And we spent all this time in a café, just talking. We had so much to talk about and I don’t think we covered half of the most important subjects. I know what the cynics –other people call them just reasonable- are going to say. That once you start actually spending time with people, things you don’t like are about to surface. But I’ve had so much trouble finding people to just have a cup of coffee with that I really don’t mind if you prove to be less angelic than you appear to be in your blogs. We could always have a cup of coffee (and then go home and blog about it). P.S Very nice article here: Love me, love my blog
August 4th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Maybe you will be the first blogger I’ll meet, Chloe!
Thanks for the article… interesting indeed! xx
August 4th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Good! But I think you must have people queuing at your door to have coffee with you
I’m reading the article: couple-surfing, that’s freaky!! It’s definitely scary the whole article…I think I’m a little old-fashioned when it comes to romantic relationships.
August 4th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I’ve met some lovely bloggers. Quite often we tend to be drawn towards blogs that interest us, so invariably we will tend to like and get on with those behind the blogs. I’m availabe for coffee most weekends, between now and Christmas!
August 4th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
I hope we meet one day
August 4th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
I propose…a proposal. Set up a time, GMT, that everyone has a cup of coffee, wherever they are.
August 4th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Hey, Greg has a great idea…or you could just hop a plane to Copenhagen? Or to Chengdu, if it can be during the next two weeks.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I’d like to meet you sometime, chloe!
But if we’re going to talk for that long, I’d probably want lots of good food included, and perhaps something stonger than coffee too.
Hmm, I wonder what you’d make of me in person. I’m not as forthcoming, sometimes, face-to-face as I am when blogging.
re: the article; and they say the art of conversation is dead. It is one thing to have a cyber-relationship if you are in different cities, or different countries. But side-by-side? If you can’t describe something, experience it together! That will give you something to talk about.
August 4th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
*adds greece to list of countries he needs to get to*
chloe, i would *love* to meet with you sometime and sit and chat for 5+ hours over our beverages of choice. hell, i’d chat with you over msn like that if we were on each other’s chat schedule!
August 4th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Kimananda — DONE.
Actually, I maybe in the UK next month for work, for like 48 hours. Anyone?
August 4th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
When can I schedule coffee with you?….
August 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
It’s an interesting article and we are already doing this between ourselves by also utilizing ‘old school’ techniques of sharing by care packages.
i think its partly a I love this so will you love this mentality that allows people or makes people want to share information and by cutting and pasting a link, we can do this in the blink of an eye.
Also we can take back things we say and correct and amend them before we send them out via messenger services.
However and i think in my case I prefer to type and communicate by SMS or type through a messenger service than speak on the telephone at times. But then I have messenger friends whose telephone numbers I have but do not use.
I started a sentence prior to this one but deleted it…a perfect example of why people find it better to communicate by keyboard.
Well you elicited a long response from there!
August 5th, 2006 at 1:32 am
we need more pollyannas in the world. and not more pessimistic type assholes, like the people who think blogging is weird and blogfriends are figments of the imagination. bastards, every one of them
August 5th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Oh Chloe, you are so lucky. I haven’t physically met any of my blog friends, but I am lucky in that all the blog friends I have made online, they are all wonderful people. One day I hope to physically meet some of them … you included, of course.
Take care, hugs, Meow
August 5th, 2006 at 7:07 am
I’ve never met another blogger, but I think it would be fun. Me, I’m way more angelic than I appear on my blog.
August 5th, 2006 at 8:24 am
I think it is wonderful. Just take your really nice time of having your coffee with a very special friend and cherish it. I love Pollyanna. Reality is waiting for you any time you want it…
I could use a cup and a nice long talk with you Chloe!!
Lots of Hugs,
Connie
August 5th, 2006 at 11:18 am
xcellent! we are brillianter tho. xxxx
August 5th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
i have met two bloggers -
both very special and dear in my
life.
i would love to have coffee
with you - you would be my
very best friend for sure-
i would treat you every time
and spoil you rotten just like
your friends already do-
and as far as blogging goes -
i argue it’s the “user” not
the medium -
and i am an intelligent and
warmhearted alhough slightly
gullible user.
smiles! (hugs)
August 6th, 2006 at 8:32 am
I feel the same way about finding people to have a cup of coffee with. While I’m sure that things people don’t like about me would surface over time (hey…maybe immediately!) I still feel like blog relationships start out with a lot of common ground. We already visit each other daily…cups of coffee in hand
Boston, anyone?
August 6th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Hi Chloe, I just came in returning from the airport and read your post… Ι don’t remember whether I told you so in person, but I really enjoyed our coffee and the talk. Time just pasted by without noticing it…
You are such a lovely person, I am sure glad that I got to meet.
Good night Pollyanna, have the sweetest dreams of all:-)
August 9th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I too have met some lovely people from blogs, I think I’m very lucky ;o)
August 17th, 2006 at 5:24 am
lucky you that you found company to sip on coffee and have a heart to heart chat…..the fact that you guys clicked from the very first word go….must be indicative that things may not b all nice, but surely they are’nt gonna be too bad as well:)