Cuddly-wuddly friendliness

[000Ronald]

When you're online, what does friendship entail? I have two people on my friends list; one because he thinks I add to conversations and the other (I imagine) because he empathises with something I said. On my Youtube account, the only people on my friends list are people I know (my sister, my aunt) but I can say with a reasonable level of certainty that no one I know has a profile here. Outside of the little box I type words in, my friends are the select group of people that have given me more reason to trust them than anyone else could. Here...I dunno. Which is obviously why I started the thread.

Wait for it...wait for it...and...debate away!

I apologize. The last part sounded funny in my head.

 

[Easykill]

Well, as I told you, I use my friends' profiles to navigate the site, so I add people who post interesting stuff. Online friendship isn't really the same thing as real friendship,, and is more freely given. If you find yourself agreeing with someones posts on a regular basis, or you just like them, you add them to make them feel all good inside.

PS- Yeah, I'm one of the friends he's talking about.

 

[Easykill]

Don't you hate it when you make a thread with a good concept and everything, but no one comments? Happened to me a few times. Maybe this'll revive it.

 

[Nugoo]

I don't have any online friends.

But that's okay; I don't have any friends in real life either.

 

[000Ronald]

Easykill-Don't you hate it when you make a thread with a good concept and everything, but no one comments? Happened to me a few times. Maybe this'll revive it.

People not responding is telling me something; either they don't have anything to add to the conversation, they don't know, or they don't care. Which also tells me a lot.

Or mabe I think too much for my own good. Wouldn't be the first time it's happened.

Apologies for having to quote you like that, but something's wrong with Jerry (my computer).

 

[stompy]

Hey, I think this is interesting

Well, no one knows me well enough to add me here, and I don't stay long enough in other areas, or ghost, so I rarely have online friends. Though Easykill's idea is ... interesting.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Well, I'm not a likeable person. I have been given the gift of gab by my Irish ancestors so I can talk and talk and talk and talk and walk and chalk and fu- I mean erm talk. But seriously though, can any of you honestly say that you LIKE each other? And I don't mean he's a cool guy who I've never actually talked to, but actually LIKE as in would split a cold brewsky with occasionally? I have a friend in Japan who is awesome, I consider him a good friend, we talk to each other on msn occasionally and I like him better than some people in my pseudo-non-existant social life!

 

[John Galt]

Most of the folks on my list are either people I often have discussions with or players from the RPs who I can only assume are trying to build a solid gold statue of me somewhere on the internet.

 

[Easykill]

I should probably mention that one of my online friends at least is a friend in real life... And Galt, we're working on the third, and it's platinum.

 

[John Galt]

Good...*Get's RP whip* Pyah! Work my minions, you might get a plot twist yet!

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

lol I'm the trusting type I suppose because I'm always up for making new friends. On here I add people that I think I would really like to go talk over a beer with about life, love and video games. Someone that sparks my attention really. If I like what you have to say, how you debate or how you just plain out present yourself I'd like to keep track of you. As friends, I'd like to think so. Not best friends of course but Friends yes.


^_^

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

I have online friends who are some of my oldest and most trusted friends. I have met many of them in real life, some in my local area, some thousands of miles away. Most of my online circle of friends know a great deal about each others lives, we visit each other when geographically possible, and help each other through rough times.

Because of problems with my health, I have had a hard time making friends in real life because I often do not have the energy to hang out. However, hanging out at home via my laptop is something I can always do.

Most of them I met through mutual interest in writing of some sort. It is possible to have real friendships on the internet if you treat them like real friendships. But that entails all the work that goes into creating a regular friendship--looking for someone whose company you enjoy, getting to know them, and developing a mutual interest in one another's well being.

And when the friendship breaks up or there's a fight, it hurts just like any other friendship.

EDIT: Here, I haven't made that sort of friendship (yet) in part because the nature of a forum doesn't lead to people talking about their real lives much.

 

[000Ronald]

I apologize for the Rickroll on my thread. Don't click Swift's link.

 

[jim_doki]

[http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/09/29/i-maed-nu-frend/]

 

[Fire Daemon]

I don't think its is possible to have the same sort of friendship over the internet as you can in person but it is possible to have friendship over the internet.