Social Life and the Internet

I think about half of my social life takes place online. I talk to different kinds of people here than I would in real life, but I probably have more genuine friends offline.

How much of your social life takes place on the Internet? Do you have more friends online or offline?

 

more friends offline, but i would choose to keep some of my online ones over my offline ones if it came down to that..... some people online are more important to me than anything

 

i have more friends off but they all are assholes and i dont hardly talk to them anymore except for a couple..
Id rather trade them in for some people on here though...

 

offline. I dont think of you guys as real people. I know you are, but something about the net seems so fake to me. sorry.

 

i considered you my best friend...i think ill go cry in the corner...

 

There are a couple people I met online that I have also met in person and spent quite a bit of time with. Those people are now a part of my life like most people I meet online are not. They are not just online friends anymore. With that in mind I'll say I have more friends offline. I don't have enough contact with most people I know online to say they are friends.

 

much deeper connection with people offline, that isn't to say their arent a few people here that i am sure i would genuinly enjoy getting to know and spend time with offline but until then there is no way i can connect with them aswell as my 'real' friends...

when it comes down to it this is more entertainment then socializing...

 

I agree with Xac. I like tons of you guys, but if I'm ever in a real jam, I turn to my real life buddies. I do wish I could meet some of you.

 

"if my bitch was wit me atm"
do you find it empowering to refer to your partner as a "bitch"?

 

I think of this place a bit like sitting in a bar in a foreign city....we all talk a lot of shit but sometimes it is meaningful...the biggest dfference being I can't see if you are fallng off your barstools or whether I really would want to sleep with you!!!

 

I have more friends offline than online, but these people online are more the type of people I WANT to hang out with, rather than those I'm trying to find common ground with. It seems to flow more easily with some of you.

When it comes to jams, I get out of them myself. I don't look to anyone for help. But theoritically, I would look to my real life friends, as shitty as they are. Why can't all of you live closer?

 

I think people on here are more open minded than most in the realworld! I almost would rather talk to a hand full of you than my offline friends. I wish I could find offline friends like some of you!

 

I only have a few people I consider as friends online... offline, I have literaly hunderds.

 

being online only passes my time. I don't have any friends either way.

 

I think that sums it up pretty well.

 

I've met two hipforums people in RL (Monosphere and Claire).. and there are some more I'd like to meet.. I have both off- and online friends but it's easier to go into deep conversations online for some reason (IM).. so for that I feel closer to some of the online people. However.. the friends I value the most are the ones I share all forms of communication with.. RL, internet, phone.. even boring ol' snail mail sometimes. Just.. I dunno.. gives you the whole perspective of a person I guess.

But yeah.. to get all mooshy and stuff as well.. love you guys

 

I have more friends offline but the one true good friend I have here I care about more than most my offline friends.

 

You forgot Tamsyn. You met 3 people.

 

Off-line and On-line the thougts of Social Life and friendship for me is something for me very difficult. I am trying not to write a book here which I often do.

'Friends' to say Off-Line I really do not have any. I am at a point in Therapy with Boundaries and trust issues along with my mental illness and many phobias and psych or personality disorders. The Main for me is being Aghorrophobic. (basically do not leave the apartment for more than a few hours at a time out of fear of panic attack) Those of my 'old friends' dont call any longer as I dont ever feel able to go anywhere, or around people.

On-Line I am just coming back here and I am trying to 'fit in' and make friends, yet I find I am not always 'myself' or in general a thirtysomething living every moment in fear, while being alone so much and going out only to the store and the Doctor and stuff, the Internet is my only contact really with the world outside of my home. I had said I would not write a book so I will stop here with the words- I Have Major 'ISSUES' and am 'EMO' or the closest thing to it. Peace--RX

 

...uh oh.... hehehe.. yeah.. I did.

Thing is that I don't really know her from here and only met her once so.. slipped my mind She's very cool though.. great person.