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Interested in making some Thai friends before traveling to Thailand. Has anyone had much success meeting Thai Friends on the Internet?

I've come across a few sites that seem pretty good.

www.thailandfriends.com</a><BR><BR>Anyone have suggestions or stories?

Cheers!

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Are you seracing for a girlfriend?

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Giving you the benefit of doubt as to being a troll, and at the risk of being severely trashed for my opinions, I'll give you some GENERALISATIONS concerning your question. ( I have no personal experience of such web sites, and anything I say is just what I have picked up over many years. )
I'm assuming that you want to go out with them once you arrive in Thailand, and I'm also assuming you've never been in Thailand before, and are not interested in "pay for play" friends.

"Nice" Thai women are hard for a farang to get to know. Everything I've heard, says that they will only go out with farangs once they've got to know them really well, which takes a long time. A lot of that is to do with the ASSUMPTION that any Thai woman going out with a farang man is a "hooker".

Most Thai women on such sites are advertising for a husband.

Any Thai woman prepared to go out with a farang that she has only "met" on the internet, is probably going to have a "financial" interest in the relationship.

Before anyone trashes me for the above, I've said that it's generalisations. I'm sure there are lots of great casual friendships between Thai women and farang men on holiday, but I've never seen such myself.

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<hr>the girl dresses trashy <hr></blockquote>
In Pattaya there are lots of "temporary" holiday relationships, where the girl stays with the guy for weeks at a time. She doesn't dress trashy, but is still assumed to be a hooker, and there's not always a big age gap either, as many of the guys are quite young.

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<hr>some stuck up middle aged farung will think your girlfriend/wife is a hooker.<hr></blockquote>
That is a fact. Experienced it myself.

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Maibah, There have been many, many posts pointing out that there's more to Pattaya than hookers. If someone goes there wanting to see hookers, sure, there's plenty, but it's also an interesting, and cheap, place to stay for a few days. In Thailand you can find whatever you desire.
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<hr>The city is a ceasepit. <hr></blockquote>
Ever been there, or are you just going by hearsay?

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hmm, let me add to all the gereralizations so far. women are the same everywhere. you will soon weed out the ones only interested in money. being they are on the internet, they are one step ahead of the thai cultural gal, which you wouldn't want to meet anyway. obviously if they start talking money, marriage, tractor/buffalo, brother sick, then move on to the next.

what's more important is what you are looking for. guessing just a friend to vacation with, that might be a little harder than a relationship, which is actually not realistic unless you plan on living here. ask upfront if they would like to do what you wish, travel or vacation together either locally or out and about. need to know if she has the freedom (work, family, peer pressure) to do so, and if interested. good luck.

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I've met loads of women from that site - at least 15 and they're all sorts, from 21 year old students to 35 year old University lecturers . In fact I've met loads from all over Asia, not just Thailand, from sites just like that. Nothing wrong with them at all. There's Malaysian and Philippine equivalents to sites like that where it's just as easy to send a message and get chatting online and then, later, meet them for a coffee or a night out in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, KL, or Manila.

sites like that mean you'll always get a date wherever you're going. All they'll do is get you started. After that, it's up to you.

I've only ever interracted with one hooker from a site like that, only I never met her, because she's in Phuket and I've never been there nor ever wished to go. Contrary to what is sometimes puffed about on here and the Stickman, etc, sites,, she didn't try to pretend she was a bank teller or something, but admitted pretty much straight away that she was an Issaan bar girl there once she realised that I wouldn't think any the less of her because she happened to be a bargirl. Disarming honesty which you can, sometimes, find in Thailand.

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Also there is Thai Love Links
Many of the women there have children,and most seem to live in the Udon Thani area .
Most are looking for a permanent ,not a casual relationship .
If you just want a short term holiday affair,it is easyier and more honest to just use Bar girls .

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> "Nice" Thai women are hard for a farang to get to know.

Oh come on! It seems the only requirement is 'still having a pulse'. And the internet is indeed a stellar opportunity to meet people you otherwise wouldn't. Heck, just being online on Skype I get girls saying 'hello' all the time. I dind;t even know Skype had a feature to search for random contacts.

This site seems aimed at foreigners, but there's LOADS of Thai language community sites.

Then for the fun stuff there's CamFrog... :-))))) (It seems known now so the current fascist government may be trying to block it)

> Everything I've heard, says that they will only go out with farangs once
> they've got to know them really well, which takes a long time.

Yeah, up to a week in some cases where they play hard-to-get.

Cheers,
Chanchao

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<hr>Everything I've heard, says that they will only go out with farangs once <hr></blockquote>

yeah got to admit that's bullshit. Bangkok especially is not that much different to major cities in the West really these days.

It's really very easy to get dates with university educated Thai women with middle class jobs on the internet at least in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. Absolute piece of of piss. You've just got to build up a bit of a level of trust online first, and believe it or not in my experience 99 % of them DON'T try to pretend that they're something they're not and they're just not these total desperadoes you come across in the bars of Pattaya and Nana.

they might bring a friend with them at first to make sure you're not the Beast With Two Heads, but when it turns out that you're 1.80 tall, 70 kg, reasonably friendly and polite and look pretty much like the photos you've sent them, then you're away.

one problem is, if you don't live in Thailand, and tell them that you don't, and do in fact move around Asia during your longish trips in the region, like I do, then that's a mark against you. As #11 says, they're usually looking for something at least semi - permanent. If you do get on with them, what happens is that you go out with them a few times and it isn't long before they either they decide that you're not up to scratch, and they'd sooner shag one of the myriad of other guys that are floating around their social lives, or you end up shagging them yourself, pretty much the same as at home really.

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