Online best friends?

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Permalink Reply by Darius on October 24, 2007 at 4:56pm

I have met quite a few friends that i will probably never meet unless uncle sam sends me to that area but my online relations have been pretty cool. I even have known a couple people for a few years and we talk on the phone and stuff but still have yet to meet them

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Permalink Reply by Ulrich on October 24, 2007 at 8:24pm

Not being much of a chat-person, I haven't made a lot of close friends online. I have met some people, that I would consider my friends on boards / forums I have written on, because I have talked to them a lot, so I feel I know them quite well.
I haven't put myself much out there yet, so there has not been any real intimacy shared with people. I therefore don't consider people I have met online as close friends as the ones, I have met in real life.

I do have a lot of long-distance friends, that I communicate with through instant messaging, websites like Facebook and the like, but that is out of necessity. Those friends, I have met them in real life first, so I don't consider them web friends. They are people, I have worked with, lived with, gone to school with and other. I have friends, who were exchange students and live quite far away, so I am not likely to be with them in real life often, even though I'd like to.

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Permalink Reply by J.J on October 24, 2007 at 8:58pm

I've got some web friends. One or 2 of them have become good friends for chatting, i've met them on a forum some time ago. Besides that i don't have any friends on the web yet. I think it is possible to have really close firends, but it takes time. I prefer the old fashioned way. But i've discovered that it is possible to find extremly good friends on the net.

If you think a bit, those friends on the net are good friends in person to another person where they live.

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Permalink Reply by Matt B. on October 24, 2007 at 9:00pm

What I love about making friends online is that I can often have a place to stay when I travel.

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Permalink Reply by Mayank on October 24, 2007 at 10:34pm

yea i second that.....have had first hand experience when travelling and also have accomodated online friend when they come down under.......to New Zealand btw dont think anything dodgy lol

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Permalink Reply by Mal on October 28, 2007 at 9:40am

I know quite a lot of friends who I chat with exclusively on the internet. Like, for example, I set up a website several years ago with other like-minded individuals (who we somehow found each other via the web), and most of us are still running the website today. Some people have met each other since, but on the whole, we limit communication to instant messaging and email.

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Permalink Reply by Flamekebab on October 28, 2007 at 5:37pm

I tend to find that people find themselves compelled to be truthful and open with me. When I meet them in person I know them disturbingly well, often far more than I do people I met in person first.
Admittedly, I compulsively analyse the behaviour of everyone. All the time.

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Permalink Reply by Maiflowers on October 28, 2007 at 6:11pm

I enjoy online best friends better then friends I have at school and such. Only because theres such a wider group of people with the same intrests as you to pick from. I meet alot of my online friends when I join a site (such as Jetset :D or avidgamers). I meet them while where both doing something we enjoy.

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