The friends I have made online are great (although I have met a couple of strange ones!) but I have just been thinking, I reckon that people had less friends and acquaintances before the computer age.
I am pretty lucky to have some good mates away from the computer...you would never believe it though, the amount of time I spend on here but most of my online friends that I chat to often are just as valid to me.
The downside though is that sometimes you meet people online but will never actually meet them, which is a shame. Just take a look at peoples Facebooks. I have loads of you on mine, but I am sad to say that after a time I don't even know who some of you are which is such a shame
I was really fortunate to have met GGG a few years back. We met on an online pagan forum, met and hung out loads for a time (that was a cool summer!) she is now one of my best friends and I know that we will be friends forever.
Can I ask...do you feel as connected to online friends as you do your other friends? Do you however feel that the friendship can only go so far because the friendship is based mainly online?
Also regarding Facebook, do you think that some people just want to have lots of friends on their list to make themselves feel/seem popular? I know one person with over 400 friends! I sometimes feel a bit of a hypocrite as I have nearly 200 friends, but only know approximately half of them. If you then delete someone and they realise they tend to think 'why' when you haven't even spoken to them.
I think that zebrastripes idea is a fab one as some of us are able to get to know each other away from the computer, so the friendship becomes a little more personal if you know what I mean.
These are just ramblings of mine this morning, probably due to Daniel waking up twice in the night and me being in a slight zombie mode. Hope I made some sense though
I am pretty lucky to have some good mates away from the computer...you would never believe it though, the amount of time I spend on here but most of my online friends that I chat to often are just as valid to me.
The downside though is that sometimes you meet people online but will never actually meet them, which is a shame. Just take a look at peoples Facebooks. I have loads of you on mine, but I am sad to say that after a time I don't even know who some of you are which is such a shame
I was really fortunate to have met GGG a few years back. We met on an online pagan forum, met and hung out loads for a time (that was a cool summer!) she is now one of my best friends and I know that we will be friends forever.
Can I ask...do you feel as connected to online friends as you do your other friends? Do you however feel that the friendship can only go so far because the friendship is based mainly online?
Also regarding Facebook, do you think that some people just want to have lots of friends on their list to make themselves feel/seem popular? I know one person with over 400 friends! I sometimes feel a bit of a hypocrite as I have nearly 200 friends, but only know approximately half of them. If you then delete someone and they realise they tend to think 'why' when you haven't even spoken to them.
I think that zebrastripes idea is a fab one as some of us are able to get to know each other away from the computer, so the friendship becomes a little more personal if you know what I mean.
These are just ramblings of mine this morning, probably due to Daniel waking up twice in the night and me being in a slight zombie mode. Hope I made some sense though