I have a couple of great stories about this:
I'll start with a trivial one- i don't have the specifics, but I've had online conversations with a couple in Texas (educators I think) and the avi name of the man had something to do with NZ in it, and when I asked, it turned out they'd met in Second Life and are now married in real life, living in Texas.
When I began to do a lot of SL work, I introduced a relative to SL during a visit to his home in New England. - he got an account and went whole-hog, buying land, houses, etc... a few months later, he introduced me to his SL girlfriend. Now, 2 years later, they live together in Long Island.
When i was at a sloodle meeting two years ago (being a big moodle and SL evangelist) a man/avi approached me in SL about doing a presentation in Europe. At first I thought it was in SL, but he meant in RL - to fly there and participate in a one-day workshop for librarians. In preparation for this, he introduced me to one of the leading women web 2.0 gurus in Europe - we first met (all three of us) face-to-face with adobe communicator - she was at her office in Malta, I was at a hotel room out West, and he was in his apartment in Stockholm. We collaborated heavily over skype and email after that, then met in person the day before the event.
And finally, I don't know if you'd count this, but when I was 19 in about 1989 and in college, i picked up a copy of islamic horizons and found a 2-line ad in the matrimonial section - print was the way to go before the internet. I replied with a 12-page handwritten letter. We just celebrated our 19 anniversary and the youngest of our five children is 7.
I guess there is never a finally though, LOL- one of our book reps got married to her husband after meeting him on match.com (she'd avoided meeting him for a long time because she didn't like his profile picture, despite the 93% match - but when she finally did she said it was instant.). We have another couple of friends - both Bosnian- he a war survivor, she a single child raised by an imam in florida- who met online and now have 2 kids in CA. Not sure what the site was, but he said he finally had to break down and pay the fee to be able to contact her thru that service.
Whoah... this just keeps going on and on- the best example of this sort of thing is CouchSurfing- We've hosted about 20 people, and i've been hosted by 6 in two different cities. In my experience, the richest virtual-to-real life application out there. There have been over a million brokered interactions on Couchsurfing.com so far, and growing. We've hosted vietnamese girls from france, Texas born-agains, brazilian exchange students, former clowns, hemp weavers, and more! By far the richest profiles I've seen as well... blows facebook out the window. See mine: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/divb/
Cheers!
d.i.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Rik Panganiban
> Hi friends,
> Although not directly education-focused, we thought this project might be of
> interest to the SLED community.
> Global Kids is involved in the production of a new HBO documentary about
> people meeting online. The producers are open to all kinds of relationships
> that began online -- professional collaborations, student-teacher,
> cross-cultural friendships, whatever as long as its compelling.
> If you have such a story, or know someone who does, please read below.
> Best,
> Rik
> -----------------------------
> Dear Friends,
>
> Has meeting someone online dramatically affected your life? We want to hear
> your story for a new HBO documentary! (And please pass this on to anyone
> else who might have a story!)
>
> What do we mean by "meeting online"? It could be anything from Internet
> dating to making a significant personal or professional connection. In
> short, we want good stories that revolve around connections made on the
> Internet. If you've met someone online and the relationship deeply affected
> you, then we want to hear from you! You might get the chance not only to
> tell it, but to have it featured on a new HBO show respectfully sharing some
> of these tales.
>
> The show will be directed by Emmy Award winning, Oscar-nominated director
> Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) and produced by Marc Weiss, creator of the
> critically-acclaimed public TV series P.O.V. To hear more about this
> project, and watch a sample from the show, go here.
>
> This is the digital era and the project is about connecting online - so
> please use whatever you prefer to make the connection with us:
>
> Web: Submit it via the web site: http://Meeting-Stories.org
> Email: Email it to stories@meeting-stories.org
> Video: Go to our YouTube channel and add your story as a reply.
> Voice: Use Google Voice by clicking here.
> SMS: Follow us on Twitter or post it with the hashtag #howwemet.
> Facebook: Join our group and post it there.
> Postal mail: You're kidding, right?
>
> Whatever you do, just don't keep it to yourself!
>
> To read more about the project, or read stories as they come in,
> visit http://meeting-stories.org
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> The "Meeting Online" Team
> ___________________________________
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> Assistant Director
> Online Leadership Program
> Global Kids
> email: rik@globalkids.org
> tel: +1 212 226 0130 x139
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