Due to the many problems associated with peer to peer I don't have a choice but to rely on exchange for my coin transactions to be on the safer side but whenever I can get a recommendable and trusted person I wouldn't mind to do the transaction with him.
Yeah, even if you choose to do it in exchange or face to face non of them is risk Free but I think the face to face exchange is more risky than that of online exchange. Because face to face exchange can result losing ones life, so with this reasons I would prefer trading online instead of face to face exchange because I hardly trust people this days. And I can't even remember doing face to face exchange before if not online p2p and I can't even think of going with that method now that people are doing what it takes just to get what they want, so therefore I will just stick to the one I do online and at same time being careful so as to avoid trading with a wrong hand.