tribe friends

How many have I met?
All seven, years ago...
They are friends/family from the Guild of St. George, the group that plays Queen Elizabeth I's court at many California RenFaires. Tribe.net is where we get together between rehearsals and faires.

oooh, what a wonderful question!

i have a few tribe friends who are just kind of random people who friended me, but i'm usually pretty careful about who i accept requests from. i like to have had some discussions with them first.

i've met quite a few face-to-face. usually after we've been tribe friends for some time...as a matter of fact, one person i met randomly on tribe happens to be one of my very closest friends now, as we decided to go out for drinks when i was in his neck of the woods and we hit it off so well. i've dated a few of my tribe friends, and i have also engaged in a few "internet flings" with people on my friends list who were quite distant, so we never met in person, but we had some times :-)

i also have a core of really supportive, wonderful tribe-friends who i've never met in person, but who i consider friends in a very real sense of the word. there is a really high caliber of great people here on tribe.

ok, I got a chance to count so I could answer my own question. I have met 51 of my 130 tribe friends in person and I can't even tell you how many others it's just down right bizarre that I have not met in person!

I have met other tribers as well who aren't on my friends list so it occurs to me I've met alot of tribers(o:

6 of my tribe friends I knew in person before tribe. One of those invited me to tribe...the rest I invited(o: and then there are several who I met on other sites and invited them here, later meeting 2 of them in person if I'm counting right.

None ^^; I've only been on it for a few months, and honestly pretty much everyone is in California somewhere. I MIGHT be meeting someone in a few months though, maybe, if Master lets me and things work out perfectly.

i've met three, but they are my kids so that probably doesn't count. being off in indiana means not many tribe people around to meet.

Some people on my friends list are RL friends (but we don't use tribe for communicating with each other much) and I see them in RL, and the rest of you are in another country and on the other side of the continent, or the other side of the planet. Some of my tribe friends are people I'd know I'd enjoy just as much, if not more, in RL and I'd definitely love and be curious to meet. Some I barely know or interact with - I'm more into the hanging out around the virtual water cooler aspect of tribe (minus the office gossiping for the most part!).

I know 3 of my friends on my list who live in NZ..I introduced them to tribe.

Sadly I have met no one else...yet!

Wow I was surprised - I've met 52 of my 70 tribe friends!

I'm not much of a friend collector, usually I meet someone IRL first, then add 'em as a tribester. But there are a few people who have impressed me so much with their posts or their profiles that I've made friends.

OTOH, the only friend requests I seem to get are from gay men who live far away.
go figger...

Wow... More than I thought... 185 out of 307

Most of the RL friends I have listed on my profile page, I met through tribe. I LOVE meeting my tribe friends! I have a few friends who unsubscribed from tribe but I've been able to stay in contact with them through email.

One of my tribe friends (a great guy I had planned to meet at BM), died unexpectedly, his profile is still up and I keep him in my list. A forever friend.

There are only about 3 or 4 who I knew outside of tribe and they aren't active on tribe, most of the people I meet outside of tribe have never heard of it. I invite them but I think it's a little intimidating if they aren't internet networking types.

There are a few I feel like I've met in RL even though I haven't and hope to meet eventually. They just live in other parts of the country.

a quick check of my first few pages of friends show that i've met 60% of them in person so that would be like 275 people... many of those are people who are part of my larger social circles in the electronic music/dance world or burning man -- then another 25 or 30% are people i met on tribe who i haven't yet met in real life, but want to.... and about 10-15% are people who i friended at some point for some reason (i don't accept really random friend requests) but today, i have no idea who the hell they are.

i did notice that as i went through to count who i knew in person, there were people who i counted as "yes" and then realized i just felt like i knew them so well, i had met them.. but hadn't.

meeting people from tribe is always fascinating.

Well, I have made it a bit of a rule not to friend folks unless I know them 3D or have an ongoing dialog with them and I occasionally go through and prune anybody I don't immediately recognize from my friends list (if I don't recognize you then we probably don't talk enough for you to qualify as a friend)

So, out of 82 friends I have met 58 of them. Of those 58 only seven of them met me after being friended to me on tribe. Only six of the 24 folks I have not met are not people
I know from this tribe and one of them is a friend of a friend who lives in Denver who I hope to meet someday.

Probably met about 3 or 4....in person

i've met 9 in person
5 i met on other web sites and introduced to Tribe
i knew 1 person before Tribe (he introduced me)
there are about 10 that i feel very close to, like real friends, even though we've never actually met in RL

Of my 115 tribe friends, I've met 44 face to face. There are about 4 other tribers I've met who aren't on my list. I think 9 I knew outside of tribe first. And there are a couple that it seems really weird to me that I haven't met face to face yet.

To date, I've met seven of the people on my friend's list. It seems like more, though, because their personalities are so wide. They're all wonderful people!

i have met in person 7 of my tribe friends ...
i met none of my tribe friends in other places on the web ...
i have known the same 7 tribe friends (mentioned previously) before tribe ...

i feel as if i have *known almost all of my tribe friends--but *really really* (with emphasis) i feel this way about maybe half. i value their input and their very presence ... i like them a lot that is what i will say.

i can't meet most of you san francisco-ers myself (at least, not yet) but if you happen past 2199 Market street for the art show opening tonight (saturday), my youngest daughter anna is one of the volunteers there, you can say hi to her. she's just like me except young, female, a college graduate, and a bit shorter. I posted the event here, it sounds fun.

Wow - 52 out of 112, although there are at least 4 "friends" that are things like "Love is Everything" or groups ... I only knew one person before tribe, the rest I friended on tribe, and then met IRL. There are at least another dozen that it feels like I know, only I've never actually met them ...

I've only met one, whom I had already met before I joined tribe. He's in India right now, keeping our tribe "posted". It was very cool to see the blog entries. I had sort of forgotten he was still over there.

I love this question SV! If you look at my profile, you'll find most of the answers there, but I'll elaborate for this thread.

How many of the people on your tribe friends list have you met in person? 22
How many of them did you meet somewhere else(like another web site) first? 3
how many did you know in person before tribe? 4
how many people on your friends list does it really really feel like you've met face to face even though you know you haven't? Far too many...45 or so.

The trips I took to San Fransisco two years ago were set up partly with the intent to meet many of my tribe friends. I made some wonderful connections and the experience changed my life. I am forever grateful for this.