Adventures in friendship, an update

Ok, I'm sure some of you are wondering what I decided to do with that craigslist posting. Did I respond or no? Well, the answer is sorta.

I agree with Vanessa, who has a very good example of how craigslist can be shady. Not that I planned on providing this gal with my passport info, but still, you never know.

I did, however, happen upon another listing for a kinda cheesy networking site called Girlfriends Cafe, which acts a little more like Facebook in that it includes photos and more descriptive profile information, with the emphasis of promoting gal-pal relationships.

I've used a website similar to this before and had one not-so-good experience and one really good experience that turned into a friendship (you know who you are).

In tooling around on this site, I found a profile that seemed to match the craigslist posting -- same city, same favorite activities, same age, etc. So, I contacted her in the seemingly safer confine of this site.

The result being we've exchanged a few e-mails, and she doesn't seem like a sociopath, and I've convinced her go join meetup.com and maybe attend a meetup together sometime in the near future.

So, if that goes poorly, you can expect a blogpost detailing the painful details. If it goes well, well I may refrain from blogging about it just in case this gal really does become a friend -- a friend who might get freaked out about being blogged about.