Public Service Announcement {Meeting people online}

Welcome to my first PSA :)

My name is Emily and i'll be your PSAA

{Public service announcement announcer}

I feel obligated to do a PSA on the subject of meeting people online.

{Yuck, who does that??} 

...**cough cough**...

I've been meaning to write this for a while,

but certain events have put it a little higher up on my priority posts.

Meeting people online.

It can be great OR Disastrous.

There are pros and cons to meeting people online.

Pros - An awesome relationship

Cons - Death...ahem...

There are rules to meeting people online.

Follow them and your chances are higher at success.

Choose not to follow them and you die...i mean for real!!

Rule #1

If you are under the age of 18 step away from the keyboard.

Step.Away.Now

Because chances are you are probably not old enough to be 

trying to figure out an online relationship.

And it's not because we don't want you and Noah673 to be happy.

It's because we want you to stay safe...and alive...yea...

Rule #2

If you ask them to Skype or do face time or chat face to face and they refuse...

RUN.FOREST.RUN

get yourself out of there because chances are you're talking to this man...

{If this is your photo or a photo of someone you know...my sincerest apologies}

Rule #3

For females only..

Girl, if you're talking to a guy you like and he 

wants you to come to him the first time you meet....ummm no...

Just say no just say no that's the only way to go!!

{D.A.R.E. song from the 5th grade}

If he's this "Prince Charming" that you've dreamed up

then he won't have a problem coming to you.

{read following rule for rule about this rule}

Rule #4

NEVER meet for the first time at his home/apartment/hotel room/box under the freeway.

If you're meeting someone for the first time that you met online

you need to meet publicly, and you should bring a friend or your mom...yea bring your mom!!!

Don't be a fool and go somewhere by yourself...

Refer to the cons above to see why....ahem....death!!!

Rule #5

Don't believe everything people say online.

"Hi my name is Noah673 and i'm a hottie hot 17 year old"

Then when you meet the first time Noah673 looks like this....

{Again if this is you...I apologize}

I mean Whoaaa Noah673...you've ummm....changed???

I thought you looked like this???

What happened to you?? :( :( :(

And what on earth did you do that to that poor baby doll????

Rule #6

If your momma says no, listen to your momma!!

First of all if you're entering into some sort of relationship online

then tell your family about it once you start thinking about meeting.

That way they know what you're up to...back to safety.

And if you're momma thinks something is wrong with the situation...

then there is probably something wrong.

Listen to your momma!!!!

Rule #7 

Just be cautious when meeting people online.

It's a weird world we live in and there are some crazy people out there.

If you're at all interested in seeing some of those crazies 

then just watch TCAP on MSNBC

{TCAP = To Catch a Predator}

The show where they lure online predators into a situation

where they have met underage girls they want to do bad things to.

And they catch them before they get the chance.

Aww crap is right!!!

...

You see, what Tom and I have is special.

We have stumbled upon something that is one in a million.

And it is romantic and fun and exciting.

But it's all of those things because we did it the right way.

We talked, we skyped, we told family, he came here.

Baddabingbaddaboom

and that was that.

I don't want to be the person that romanticizes meeting people online 

because 9 out of 10 times it's not like that at all!!

Not to say it can't happen because it can.

But it's serious business to be making relationships on the internet.

You need to know the facts, you need to be safe.

So follow my rules of online relationships and you really shouldn't die.

Yay for not dying...no one wants to die!!!

Have a happy safe sunday!!!!

-Emily