|
LaTigresse -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 11:33:26 AM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: wandersalone
I know two women from another type of forum and both are coming out to stay with me and we will be going to see some bands together. I have never met them, never talked on the phone, we send emails all day and night to each other, we write letters and send postcards and gifts to each other. I've known them for almost two years, I know about their pasts, their families, their jobs,
So anyway....all of this got me thinking, there are plenty of women here whom I think of as a friend, not as a net friend, but as a friend,.
What about the rest of you...do you consider some of the people here your net friends, your real friends, your friends or something else??
With the exception of one person.....Not so much so for me. I simply haven't the time to spend cultivating a serious friendship. However, she and I talk on the phone fairly often now also so it isn't just "online".
Still, I do think there is a difference between any sort of long distance relationship where the primary contact is via net or phone versus someone you spend physical time with. I won't argue that one is more valid that the other, just different in many ways. I know what I prefer but to each their own.
|
|
|
|
