Would it be awesome if there was a fluther gathering you can attend?

People on Fluther exist in real life?

Sounds like a good idea, but personally, I probably won’t come.

A few years ago I would have attended. But I don’t really recognize most people now. I would pass and catch the bus and motorboat Astrochuck if I was interested in a meet-up.

That is a good idea on one condition: everyone has to have taken ALL of their meds. No exceptions!

It would be fun.

@TheIntern55 But do they have to take their own meds, or can they trade meds with others? Because that could prove quite entertaining…

It would be nice to meet up with a lot of the jellies, yes. The only problem is that we’re so darn scattered that there really is no halfway point for many of us! :D

Not for me, thanks.

I’d prefer a small gathering. I hate crowds

I would go

No. I’d prefer to meet up with specific jellies. Years back I did something similar with people I met through wis.dm but there too, it was specific members and it was a blast!

@WillWorkForChocolate As long as no-one passes out, it’s fine. But Auggie will suprivise, so be warned!

Yea, I’m with @Neizvestnaya on only hanging with specific jellies. I’ve talked to a few other northeastern jellies about getting together sometime, but some others would probably just annoy the shit out of me.

I’d rather stay anonymous, thank you.

@johnpowell Am I reading that right? You want to motorboat AstroChuck?

I’m an introvert so social scenarios, particularly those involving large groups of people, make me both incredibly nervous and fatigued. I would prefer to meet up one-on-one with people or in a very small group. However, I’m unsure whether I will meet up with any users on Fluther. I contemplated it a while back and kept myself open to the suggestion, but I may just cling a bit tighter to my anonymity.

I would bring the finest wine…..I could afford. :)

YES YES YES!
There’s so many wonderful and cool people on this site, I would love to meet them :D

I love meeting jellies, so I’m in.

Count me in.

I would only go if it was within driving distance, but I would like to meet other Fluthers.

I would like to go, but I don’t know if I would be allowed to go. My dad would not be pleased if I did.

@laineybug: Why?

He doesn’t want me to meet random people from the internet, which is obviously not the smartest thing to do.

Ah. Somehow, given the nature of this community and the behavior of most of us, plus your mom’s firm but loving leadership, I had forgotten we were only virtual.

Your dad makes a valid point.

I’ll bring (and eat) cookies.

If you have it in Australia, I’ll be there!

I like my anonymity as well, although I wouldn’t mind attending such a gathering…. but realistically, I don’t think any jellies live in my vicinity anyways, and I probably wouldn’t travel out of my city to attend…

@filmfann :: He lives close and I am pretty sure he is rocking some healthy moobs. Then I would take a taxi the twenty miles and pass out in Allie’s lawn. Allies mom would freak the fuck out and start screaming in the morning. This would wake Allie up and she would calm her mother down. I would start plucking Chuck’s chest hair out of my mouth.

Then We would rob a few banks on the way to Mexico. The secret is to not be greedy. Take what is in one register and get the fuck out. 60 seconds at the most. Once you have 10K you can live nicely in Mexico for six months. When you run out drive back up and rob a few more banks.

Sure, just let me get my shoes.

But yeah, that would be cool. I’d go, if I was able, depending on where it was at, and if I could afford the trip. Plenty of people I’d love to meet on here.

I’d love to.

@johnpowell It sounds like you’ve been planning that for quite some time.

I wouldn’t mind meeting some of my Flutherettes.

Through wis.dm, I did meet 8 members face-to-face and there were no weird issues, all were as I thought they would be and several are friends rather than acquaintances some 3–4 years later. I’d say it’s a pretty good gamble that if I’d met 10 members then at least 1 would have been sketchy.

You do take your chances forming online friendships and relationships, a degree of gut feeling, observation of consistency and safety when meeting is important. The people I met, we met in pairs then as a group and it was agreed ahead of time that if there was any point of being uncomfortable then we could all go our own ways.

My mother was really freaked out when I told her a gal was coming to stay with us I’d met on the internet, it was a big deal and especially so when that gal and I decided to road trip together to meet others.

@johnpowell Check the dosage on whatever medicine you are abusing.

I’m in! We’re having a bon fire!!

As nice as this idea sounds in theory, it would be devastating, as it would cause all of us to lose our anonymity, which is part of why Fluther works so well.

We are known by our online personalities (most of which is probaby true about us in our real lives) but because we could be anyone it makes it much safer for us to give real un-biased answers without having to worry that you’ve offended someone in our real lives who will hold it against us, or rat us out to our friends and relatives.

I never set out to offend anyone, when I give answers, but I know that if some of the people that I know in real life were to read some of my answers (because real life situations are often cited as examples) they might be horrified. So If I ever met any Jellies in real life, then they would be part of my real life outside of the internet too, and it would be too easy for the anonymity to simply disappear with the poof of a key stroke.

I have become quite friendly with a number of Jellies, online and it’s a perfect situation for us, and I truly care about them (and I think they all know who they are), but I fear that our relationships and our places on Fluther and our responsibilities (I don’t know if any other Jellies feel any responsibilities, but I sure do) would be compromised if we met in person. Or even worse, that we might be disappointed or let down or be too self conscious if we felt like we didn’t measure up.

This is not a new idea – but always fun to see nonetheless, as it means the OP would like to meet his fellow jellies, and, after being here for four months, is enjoying his experience here. I, for one, would like to meet those whom I consider friends already. I don’t know about a gathering per se where every single jelly who’s been here for a couple of weeks could just show up. I mean, there are some strange people here. And I always say; it takes one to know one.

I would love to, but I can be painfully shy in new situations and probably wouldn’t take my eyes off the ground, or would sit in the back watching everyone. Easier to stay online!

Yeah it’d be awesome. It’d be even more awesome if Fluther were at Comic Con San Diego :D

@cprevite Be careful, I just might mistake you for a giant cookie and end up eating you instead…

@linguaphile We’d go together anyway – so you wouldn’t be alone.

@zensky Yep, and we could bore everyone with our English teacher shop-talk? :D

We’d make it so.

I’m not so sure since the few jellies I was somewhat close to are no longer on here it seems, which I’ve just started to realize after my very long break from here.

^ Welcome back.

Not so much for me. If it were two or three years ago then yes but not so much now. I took a very long break from the internet and here in general. After coming back it is not the same. I still enjoy it but I care less what Fluther thinks of me as to where before I used to care a little, now….Not so much. That does not mean that I don’t care about everyone on an individual level and that I do not wish anything less than the best for everyone but no thanks. As funny as it sounds, I don’t think we’d have much to talk about except Fluther and there is plenty of that going on already.
There are a couple though that I’d hang out with in a second.

^^ Well-said