Poll: Your Friends
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I actually trust online friends more than real life ones, because real life ones tend to be more two-faced. I can trust online friends more with a secret than real ones because they will someday find a way to use that against you. Online friends tend to be less judgemental and if you are in a really sticky situation you can always turn to them for unbiased advice. We do not go through our mind-games of body language and putting on a pokerface when dealing with people online. In person, we have several 'persona' - the latin word for mask - to conceal our weaknesses and prey on other's. We are very selective about what we reveal and much can be said without even having to speak, merely by the way you look at them, sit or stand and how you respond vocally. Online, there is nothing of the sort and instead you communicate through text which is the only truely neutral form of communication. To that end, you are on a level playing field and feel you can open up more. I have also met friends from online and found them to be some of the best people i've ever known. Your friendship and relationship with these people grows much more over the internet, because without all those visual cues, you are forced not to make a judgement on them in around ten seconds, and instead form an opinion over the many days, weeks and months you get to know them. To this end it may also make real life friendships seem much more shallow, because you lack that very same connection.
Reminds me of A certain web series...
But yeah I trust some of them and some I hope don't get firearms in the near future
So the same as my offline friends
But yeah I trust some of them and some I hope don't get firearms in the near future
So the same as my offline friends
Sure, I guess I trust them, but I don't really consider them as my real friends. I think that's more from me not really getting to know them rather than them not getting to know me. My social skill are subpar, so friends here are kind of hard to get to know.
Don't get me wrong, though. I'll trust them with my name, face, and hell, maybe even my location... But just the city.
Don't get me wrong, though. I'll trust them with my name, face, and hell, maybe even my location... But just the city.
I consider some to be real friends, some to be just words on a screen, and most to be somewhere in-between.
I don't really have any friends offline, due largely in part to the fact that I live in a place where any friendships I do make will be temporary---I'm moving home in a year and a half, likely never to return.
I don't really have any friends offline, due largely in part to the fact that I live in a place where any friendships I do make will be temporary---I'm moving home in a year and a half, likely never to return.
...I don't know. Is that strange?
I have a weird thing about being friends with people when I don't actually know what they look like, but I'm coming to realise that I'd count a couple of people here on a par with 'real life' friends, and there are definitely groups of people I'd hang around with here quite comfortably. The only problem is that I'm not nearly as charming or witty offline as I am on. And given my lack of charm and wit online, this doesn't bode well...
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I have a weird thing about being friends with people when I don't actually know what they look like, but I'm coming to realise that I'd count a couple of people here on a par with 'real life' friends, and there are definitely groups of people I'd hang around with here quite comfortably. The only problem is that I'm not nearly as charming or witty offline as I am on. And given my lack of charm and wit online, this doesn't bode well...
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This is a very good way of putting it. I second this point!hurfdurp said:
I barely trust my real life friends with my location, never mind people i know only via the net.
"With my location".
Sure they may well be as good a friend as I've had offline, doesn't mean to say I ever trusted THEM with anything important.
Sure they may well be as good a friend as I've had offline, doesn't mean to say I ever trusted THEM with anything important.
Well, through this site I've made some excellent friends. Some I even trust enough to give my phone number.
I met some of my best friends online, and now that I know them IRL they're not 'net friends', they're real pals.
I met some of my best friends online, and now that I know them IRL they're not 'net friends', they're real pals.
i know this is sad, but the love of my life is technically speaking, an online friend. i started talking to her on facebook, now months later i'm in love with her. i've met her in real life before, but only once. yeahhh. so i trust her with my life.
I can't say I trust people online very much. I mean, I trust them to an extent - I'm pretty open about most things. But there are still things that I won't share with anyone, whether or not I know them in real life. I've met a few people from the internet though, in real life, and it hasn't been too damaging yet.
Well, I don't really talk socially to people online except when on a forum, so...
If I did have some, I wouldn't care less what I told them - even if they're not really friends. I mean, it's hard for someone to blackmail you if they happen to live across the world, or even in a different part of the country. If they don't like me for the secrets I tell them, then I don't need them to be my friends anyway.
If I did have some, I wouldn't care less what I told them - even if they're not really friends. I mean, it's hard for someone to blackmail you if they happen to live across the world, or even in a different part of the country. If they don't like me for the secrets I tell them, then I don't need them to be my friends anyway.
I would consider it a legitimate form a friendship. There are some strengths for meeting and knowing someone online over the meaty way and some weaknesses. As for trusting an online friend, for me it would probably take a little bit longer for me to be comfortable enough with someone through the internet. I probably wouldn't lend money to any online friends unless I really, really knew them, and I actually am pretty quick to lend money to my meat friends.
I am fairly anti-social, so I don't really need that many friends, but I definitely wouldn't deny someone friendship simply because I may never interact with them outside the internet. But at the moment, no I don't have any friends from the internet. I used to and.... I think that's all I was gonna say.
I am fairly anti-social, so I don't really need that many friends, but I definitely wouldn't deny someone friendship simply because I may never interact with them outside the internet. But at the moment, no I don't have any friends from the internet. I used to and.... I think that's all I was gonna say.
There are people in the gaming organization that I play in that I have known for years and are very friendly with, I have even meet up with some of them in real life.
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I used to have online friends, and this worked for some years (when I was in my teens). Over time I've come to agree with this guy though:
In the last few years it's occurred to me that friendship is based upon shared experiences as well as shared interests and conversation. Without that leg, the poor 2 legged stool of "friendship" collapses into "acquaintanceship" for me.
Just my two cents...
I voted with "to shine my shoes", although in the past I have trusted them with my secrets, and everything up to and NOT including my address. I also used to text/call some of them.Im Nightmare said:
In the last few years it's occurred to me that friendship is based upon shared experiences as well as shared interests and conversation. Without that leg, the poor 2 legged stool of "friendship" collapses into "acquaintanceship" for me.
Just my two cents...