What's it like to have online friends?

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AutonomousAutomaton

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I've never really had an online friend, but my brother has tons of them. I used to think they didn't count, but now I think they do. If you have a lot of online friends but none in the "real world," what does it feel like? Do you still feel like a loner? Or do you feel like you have a normal social life?
 
FountainandFairfax

FountainandFairfax

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I don't have many of either. I've found that the more people you know, the more favors that get asked of you. For me, it's best to keep a small circle of arm's length acquaintances. I guess I'm a loner, but I feel better this way. I do things socially when I feel like it.
 
insecuregaga

insecuregaga

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Well making online friends is easy just like real life or school or work, whatever when you meet someone you don't say to yourself I'm going to be friends with this person it just happens because it's easy and doing it online is just as easy or easier, you start off with the same conversation but nobody really cares, not everyone in the world is that much different and we find that out when we meet someone, it just happens to be random that's all like roulette chat or being forced to sit next to someone in high school and guess what it turns out to be your best friend in the whole wide world but it could have been anybody.
 
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NathanielWingatePeaslee

NathanielWingatePeaslee

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I have a few online friends and I think they're awesome. They're very much real people to me and I have (admittedly impractical) hopes to meet all of them in person eventually.

I have a few friends in person, too, but lately I live so far from everyone that even my 'normal' friends are mostly just online friends.
 
TheSanctuarian

TheSanctuarian

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fro me, it is much easier to talk to people online, because compared to real life, you can tell them any old sh*t and they have to believe you out of blind faith. because of this, I think it is much easier to make friends online, but much harder to know who they really are.

so in response to your question - I don't know... I am too sceptical and cynical to become "friends" with people online out of self preservation, emotionally speaking.
 
ridicule

ridicule

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I have a fair amount and since I live in a town of bottomfeeders and cavemen, it's my really only choice before I leave. And I think it's better. Instead of being confined to people who have the same experience of you, in the same culture of you, have the same ideas of you, even have the same life as you, it can basically be a massive circlejerk with them.
Online people can be from anywhere, I have had one from every continent. Yeah, it's a friend person you can talk to and have all those conversations with, but it comes with the added benefit of learning different cultures and different upbringings. And if you ever plan to leave your home country, you can be armed with a bit of knowledge about where ever you go and not sound like an ignorant bumpkin.

Oh and availability is a bonus too, do you know people can even talk on their cellular devices? It's amazing! :D
 
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Blabla..

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I had one really good friend , he was just like me , he moved far away but we talk on messenger once in a while , we just talk for hours and it feels great , he is my only contact tho , i left everyone else behind
 
tamercloud

tamercloud

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I have one online friend that I had for about 8 years.

I was a young teen and I was in the stage where I loved to cyber, and we actually started a relationship out of that! Later on we figured it was funner to just be friends, and to this day she is the only one I'm comfortable talking about perverted stuff with. She is awsome!
 
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laure15

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I used to have online pen pals that I exchanged emails with several times per week. But I think they've all moved on and we don't communicate anymore. Sometimes, I also chat with my friend, whom I met offline, but I'm not sure if that counts as "online friendship" because I met him offline but I communicate with him more online.
 
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WhisperingVoice

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I was addicted to several of online games before and there comes a point where I could no longer distinguish what's real and what's not. I could never make friends in real life because of my social anxiety. So chatting and playing online made it easy for me, but I am not comfortable to be myself either. I made up an online character that is different from what I really am. I was happy but for the most part how I wish I could show my real self, my real picture on the profile and my real gender. :(
 
Argentum

Argentum

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Internet friends are friends, but they're not a social life. Text is not a voice, and a voice is not a presence.
 
neohorizon

neohorizon

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My online friends are from games (MMORPGs). Because we have something to talk, the game. i usually dont talk about myself with anyone online.
 
Metal_isthe_Answer

Metal_isthe_Answer

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I would find it hard to have online friends. I'm a huge gamer so most of my real friends and I have that in common. The problem with having online friends is that while I could meet them through gaming, it would probably be through competitive multiplayer, and I hate competitive multiplayer.
Even when I've played co-op games with other people, they almost always play in a way that drives me crazy, ie; skipping ahead, talking over cutscenes, mocking the game or the dialogue (or music), and they often times have habits from competitive multiplayer (like jumping everywhere). So I just find it easier to play with my real friends, or just by myself.
 
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Rawz

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Back when I was a kid/teenager and very active on modding forums for a PC game, I ended up making some online friends. One I had for many years, others only for a few years or just talked to off and on. Eventually though they grew up, got busy with life, and moved on.

It's nicer than not having any friends, but can't replace friends you can hang out with in real life often.
 
fate12321

fate12321

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I have a few online friends. How does it feel like? Well, although the chances of ever meeting them in person is very low, you still get this feeling that you exist and not just a random person.
 
Xervello

Xervello

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A person can have a hundred online friends and it won't necessarily make them feel less alone. That said, having one or two good friends online who you can confide in helps when you're climbing up and down the walls because you're bored or upset, going through a break-up or any tough time. I went through a bad stretch because of a girl, and if it weren't for a couple of really good friends, I don't know if I ever would've recovered from it. They let me talk and talk and talk until I talked it out of me. And continued to let me ramble on for days and weeks about it until I was better. Maybe I was just lucky enough to meet the right kind of friends.
 
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