Keeping EoFF and IRL separate

[Denmark]

just you wait until his wedding

he'll sneak up behind you and *snip*

[Shorty]

The thought has crossed my mind before and I am actually truly terrified of this happening.

[Denmark]

we'll all be watching the live stream too so don't freak out too much

anyway i haven't actually made a proper reply to this thread

i'm dating someone from this forum and I met her entire family yesterday. that's pretty dang real.

my immediate family knows I have internet friends and know that i've met them. i never really kept it a secret from them. they weren't a huge fan of me talking to strange people from the internet when I was a teenager, and I didn't meet anyone until I was like 19. they wouldn't have let me do so beforehand, I don't think.

some of my IRL friends know that I have internet friends, but I don't think I ever said from where. I've admitted to some of my non-EoFF internet friends that I'm a member of a final fantasy forum.

my eoff and irl lives are separate but overlap a bit. wouldn't have it any other way

[Tasura]

Most of my 'irl' friends are nerds, but not as nerdy as me. So I've never really hid it from friends or family. My family would just be like "What's a Final Fantasy?" and my nerdiest nerd friend would be all "I think I might have been there once." The rest of my friends would be indifferent.

[Loony BoB]

I don't see any point in hiding EoFF, it's a part of my life and if people think my generation don't use the internet to meet people then they're rather oblivious/ignorant. No problems here, really. I don't like mixing work and the rest of my life, but they all know I spend a lot of time roaming the forums and anyone who asks about Danielle probably knows how I met her.

The thought has crossed my mind before and I am actually truly terrified of this happening.

I'm not sure if I have ever actually snipped someone's hair and I don't think that collection has been added to in a decade, and long may that continue.

I was a perfect gentleman of a boyfriend to Shorty and her mum is just an internetphobe.

[Chemical]

Well I am clearly horriblw with names or names to accounts or both....
But there were 2 meet ups I went to. One in Toronto (thought that was MILF but nm) Second was in Chicago (thought that was Shiny)...

Or option 2, you start looking into a restraining order.

[noxious.sunshine]

I totes keep the 2 separate. Just like everything else in my life... My friends stay separate from each other, my family, I try to keep a certain distance between whoever I'm dating from my parents. Ya know.

EDIT:

I don't have friends! Silly me!

[Shorty]

I was a perfect gentleman of a boyfriend to Shorty and her mum is just an internetphobe.

This is also true. He didn't do anything, she just hated him for being foreign.

[Shiny]

Welp, I've never been to Chicago ever so not possible, but now I'm a bit paranoid so thanks for that!

I thought I saw Rye one time before I even met her, but that was years ago. I swore to myself then that if I ever saw one of you in person I'd run very far in the other direction, so I did just that. Turns out, probably wasn't her anyway.

I remember keeping who I was dating on here secret even to my family. They knew who he was eventually, but did not know I met him on EoFF. Only my one friends who was a member on here knew that. That is more because of value privacy than being embarrassed. When it comes to relationships I don't openly like to out who I'm dating right away as people are insanely nosy.

[Shlup]

I think I gave up the idea of keeping them separate when a bunch of EoFFers showed up to my wedding.

[dandy da oak]

If you want to keep them separate, it's easy! You just never talk about one to the other

[XxSephirothxX]

Thanks to some defining friendships from my teenage years, my life would be pretty different today if I'd kept EoFF and my offline life completely separate. I'm very glad I didn't put a harsh divide between the two years ago.

I'll never be active again to the same extent as I was years ago, but I wouldn't say I hide anything! It just doesn't have much reason to come up.

[Del Murder]

When I tell people we met 'on the internet' they assume it was at a dating site, so I try to clarify that it was an online community about a video game series. I don't mention the site name or the series because I know they don't care.

Or I just tell them I saved her from drowning.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I do mention that there is a forum that I frequent a lot, if asked I say it is a video game or FF fansite, depending on the geekiness level of the querent. I do not keep it a secret, nor do I divide the two. Like Faris said, I have met her "IRL" friends and she has met my roommates, my current boyfriend and my last ex. I also have other online friends too, some of which Phil/HNB knows because we both used to frequent the same site.

[Miriel]

I keep it completely separate. Except for the fact that I married the guy I met here and Calliope just spent the weekend at our place and I've met a bunch of you in the past.

No but really, it is generally pretty separate from my offline life. It occasionally crosses over though.