How valuable are online friends? The people I really give a shit about I've met irl and known for years, I could be gone for years and talk to them like time never pasted, meanwhile people online are two face faggots hiding behind textbased smiles taking everything seriously if you post or say the wrong thing, or they turn into some online activist for online equality for the shadow war, it's tiresome. I honestly feel like unfriending most of the people online seems like a positive.
The only online friends worth a damn are the ones that will bother to meet you in person at least once.
Sounds like your agenda is to convince to discount others over distance and trap her with proximity
>>34592729That whole sentence as a load of implications.>herI'm not friends with any of those that I'm aware of
>>34592700As valuable as you make them. A lot are transient. Can't coerce attachment. Some friends I've had online for 15 years. A few I've met. One became my best man. Another helped me move across the county and got me my job I've been at for 8 years.
>>34592700With online you can be picky too. You can feel it if someone is malicious.
>>34592755That's really nice. I wish i wasn't a freak afraid of people, especially other men.
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>>34592797thanks for replying for me, but people generally just suck and has nothing to do with fear. As far as I'm concern alot of people in the online space might as well be bots.>>34592755that is nice
>>34592700Online friends are fun to have when you're younger in your teens but as an adult they don't have the same magic. They are not worth it. Some of them will drag you into bad influences.
>>34592700There's no such a thing as an "online friend"Because they're online it's easier to meet and interact with them and it happens more often, but because of all of that the authenticity goes down, you're essentially reading words on a screen, you don't know what they look like and your interactions are superficial.Irl friends are harder to come by but they're more valuable and authentic imo
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Probably need real friends but that's most of us in this place.. so online friends are at least some kind of communication and social interaction
>>34592700For me real valuable. And again, online friends are online until the first time you meet them. I met some friends I talked to online for years IRL, even though we were on seperate sides of the globe, after organizing a trip together. Same applies to IRL friends who move away and you keep up with online. Will you call them not real friends for that? The shit you're talking about online friends is more indicative of shitty friends than anything else to do with it being online or not. It has nothing to do with the medium
