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I've gotten in a car with people I just met many different times, but I'm pretty adventurous. Hell, when I went backpacking my everyday life basically consisted of meeting random people, becoming friends with them in less than a minute and then going off with them to off-the-beaten-path locations. Was it dangerous? Sure, maybe. But not anymore dangerous than going backpacking alone in a foreign country in general--which IS dangerous. Someone attempted to kidnap me while I was on that trip, and interestingly enough, it wasn't a random friend I'd met, it was a moto-taxi driver. A person providing a paid service... You'd think you could trust them at least, but you can't.

 

Anyway, my point is that anyone could be psycho and pretty much everything comes with risks, but there isn't really a reason to fear people on the internet anymore than people in real life. The best thing we can do as women is know how to defend ourselves (physically) and how to use our minds and our voices to get ourselves out of bad situations.