Friends vs Online Relationships

I have many online friends some are close to me others are ones i just know.

I heard that Penny LOL

 

he he he

 

Oooo, you have an avatar now, sweet...

Theres a bar in this forum, the 'Rats Arms', but it seems to be closed now..

Love
sidney

 

Maybe we should make our own LOL but then again would anyone else go to it

Us brits can win a few thing against Aussie........just not all the time

 

Oo, another bar is the the last thing I want to go into right now

 

Ok, maybe you can bet us at soccer on a regular basis. Everything is merely an aberration

 

Yea i don't think we need another Bar, maybe there old one will come back, if they ever wake up hahaha..

Love
sidney

 

Why does everyone think all we do is sleep? :coffee:

I just dusted off things in the bar. Feel free to decorate as you see fit.

 

A pint please!

 

Getting back to the thread. I like quite a lot of people in forums but I don't tag them as friends.

 

Ive met some of my soul/spirit family online and we meet up a fair bit when we can. I forget we first met online many moons ago, I value the net for making the link- ive fallen out wiv a person online felt close and distance and a whole other host of feelings so it was very real altho we never met. I did once considered them a friend, I even fancied a little (never thought that was possible) but I didnt fancy their look I liked the words and sense of humour that shone thru..peoples masks can slip online, its just a matter of time!

To a degree I consider people I like and connect with online as friends and ones I really get along with I feel the urge to meet as Im a very community orintated person and love bringing people together its what I do best, so yes friends are friends some stay forever and some pass on by online or not ..

 

OOooo, i had a very close and very dear online friend, she was like a lover to me and lit up my life, sadly in a months time she turned on me and pretty much told me to get out of her life, im still grieving over her....

 

awwwwwwwwwww, nasty...

 

Um yeah...back on topic...

For many years online friends were pretty much all I had. Talking to those I'd known online for years kept me sane during a more lonely period of my life, and some I still count as friends. Of course they can be friends. Most of the people who have had the biggest effect on my life I first met online.

It still hits me and lithium sometimes that we were talking online for around 5 years before we met up, and now we're together and completely real and stuff. We're both just how we portray ourselves online, which was a relief. We'd enjoyed eachothers conversation here for so long, we knew eachothers views about the most important things and really meeting up was just continuing the relationship we'd been building up for years. It does feel very weird to call him lithium now though, but sometimes I do it just so we can remember how strange and wonderful the whole thing has been :willy_nilly:

 

That is so super sweet, FM.
I'm so glad you two got together.

 

I have many online friends,,Some of them I don't need. If anyone wants them I can give them to you for free.

Thanks

 

yea me too, some are scary some are not

 

I had belonged to another forum for a number of years and had met 8 members at different times and three of us got together at the same time. I am still in contact with them and we visit each other as well as call. I met my partner on the same site and so far I still like him.

I have also "chatted" with some that I know I would not really wish to be real life friends with, that is alright also.

The net is a great place in general. It affords the opportunity of chatting and I personally have found that there have been many people over the years that I have greatly benefited from their posts.

 

i think that, in time, i will make some lifelong friends here, some of which i may meet in person and some of which i may never meet atall for whatever reason... i see all the people here as "real" people, it's just that the internet can be such a surreal experience...

 

Romantic and heartwarming