Last week I met Kim from IdolBlog. She’s been on the site for a few years now and it was fun to see each other in person and hang out for a little while at a local cafe (photo).
Here’s her take on the meetup – her comments are quite funny:
I was expecting Rachel to be really nice, but quite quiet and serious – not particularly friendly. Then I expected Regan to be very friendly and talkative, but rather obnoxious at the same time. They kind of like.. switched. Rachel was incredibly friendly and talkative (btw not obnoxious in the slightest
), and Regan was rather quiet and serious (but friendly when he did talk
Most of the people I do design work for I’ve never met face-to-face. We’ve communicated via email, IM, Writeboards, Skype, and occasionally on a real phone.
Of course, I’ve met a tonne of other people after knowing them online first (the other most recent example was meeting Lee Lefever). They’re usually like their online presence and they usually say I’m just as they imagined. So I hope you haven’t got the impression that I’m not that friendly 
Although, my role at IdolBlog is more about keeping people from being too naughty 
your thoughts
Chrono Cr@cker
It’s a lot different meeting a person real than how you have interacted with him/her online. It may be hard to break certain pre-judiced facts that have embedded yourself about that person and you may find it hard to believe that person was the one whom you knew online.
And Rachel, I’ve thought you were quite a serious person and formal. LOL!
Alex
Some people live only in the virtual world, some other don’t know what the Internet is. You live in both worlds
ps, the first link has an extra quote and gives an error…
Kim
Just looking through.. seeing my name was a shock!
It was cool meeting you too