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VirginPotty -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 12:21:23 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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ORIGINAL: VirginPotty
I wouldn't hesitate to invite them to stay w/me.  Well, I'd MORE than hesitate inviting the Clumsy One but all of the others are MORE than welcome!![:D]


i coming too!!!



Save that nasty talk for Mr. Jim! [sm=lalala.gif]



GreedyTop -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 1:01:12 PM)

Friends are friends.

I count most of you on this thread as friends. I care about you, and I don't doubt that you care about me.   Your sorrows and joys affect me.

Even if I havent met most of you face to face, you're my friends and I love you.



stella41b -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 1:15:50 PM)

Friends are friends.. Which for me includes a lot of people here.

And the rest of you are just friends I've yet to befriend.

(it's the Celtic blood in me).



LadyHibiscus -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:19:32 PM)

I have made some very close friends online, but I do consider the majority of my online contacts to be acquaintances, rather than friends, if we are being all semantic about it.  Still, I root for everyone here, and offer encouragement to those who need it---that's what community is all about, if you're me! 



persephonee -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:22:16 PM)

i think anyone who gets my jokes on a semi regular basis would be a good friend in real life.
The friends i make are friends forever. Some are closer than others. Some are simply more open to creating relationships than others...but we are all connected and can count on each other at the very least for a supportive ear and an "aww baby, im sorry." or "aww, baby, thats fantastic!"

im new to the internet thing so i dont have a long history to draw from, but i have yet to form a connection with a person online that didnt translate into realtime...if youre my friend online, chances are we will click in real time.



DiurnalVampire -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:25:40 PM)

Friends are the people I would go out of my way to try and meet face to face eventually. Acquaintances are the ones I might talk to the rest of my life and if the oppertunity never presented itself to visit, we would never meet.
I have many of both on here and have had others on other online communities. Some of my best friends in the world started as online chat buddies.

DV



Shadow-tiger -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:35:24 PM)

Friends are the people who understand you. Who get along, laugh and cry with you. The crazy people who are there when you need them, either to be helpful, or occasionally knock you on your ass with a clue by for. Friends are many many things. And I've met a great many of them on the big bad internet. A couple weeks back I got to meet one of those neat people in person, and it was like we hung out all the damned time.

As some have said, there's all sorts of levels of friends, and yet at the same time there aren't really. It's a matter of what we'll all put up with, what we'll do for each other. Just because you met online doesn't ever make that any less valid. Yet just like everything else in life it doesn't automatically make them trust worthy. That's one you get from time and experience, and trusting your instincts.

... damn. Pontificating bastard today ain't I? [;)]



beargonewild -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:41:28 PM)

*grins*
Not really pontificating Shadow, just expressing your opinion which is I see just as valid if we all were in the same room and you expressed it face to face. Granted, in this forum, it's words that are on a screen yet it is a human being who has typed these words that we are all reading.



LadyEllen -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 3:46:54 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Shadow-tiger

... damn. Pontificating bastard today ain't I? [;)]



Not sure. Was too busy looking at your pic to read what you wrote

E



DiurnalVampire -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 4:47:01 PM)

Thats something I have noticed in the couple of people I have met so far whom I know on here.
When you finally do meet... its like youve known one another face to face for years.
Recently, when Fox and I met Greedy and Tulip, I doubt anyone would have known we met that day. Thats something I never remember having with "real" friends who I meet face to face first.

DV



beargonewild -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 4:56:18 PM)

Which I believe will also happen in 3 weeks when I head down for Rain's wedding. There is no doubt that we will have the same good rapport in person as we do now online and through our phone calls. I also expect that the others from CM who I will also meet at that time, it'll seem like we had been friends in real life for years.



LadyEllen -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 5:00:05 PM)

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ORIGINAL: DiurnalVampire

Thats something I have noticed in the couple of people I have met so far whom I know on here.
When you finally do meet... its like youve known one another face to face for years.
Recently, when Fox and I met Greedy and Tulip, I doubt anyone would have known we met that day. Thats something I never remember having with "real" friends who I meet face to face first.

DV



Now that's something I can identify with - instantly being comfortable with many I've met from here, like I've known them years. Weird - but great!

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auroraborealis -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 5:05:02 PM)

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ORIGINAL: CalifChick

I don't think friendship should be classified by the method of delivery.  Even though Gwyn didn't make it to the party in Florida, I consider her every bit as much of a friend as the people who were able to be there.

I think it's what you share, not how you share it, that makes a friend.


Cali



*tacklehugs Cali* aww sweetie it is mutual... I so would have been there if not for the miscarriage scare.

As for the question...

I have lots of online friends who are in person friends. Some I love and adore like sisters and would do anything for.

Just because we met online does not lessen our friendship or link.

Just my [sm=2cents.gif]


Gwyn



WyldHrt -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 5:35:22 PM)

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A couple weeks back I got to meet one of those neat people in person, and it was like we hung out all the damned time.

You're just saying that 'cause I fed you burgundy tri tip and chocolate cake, love [;)]

For me, friends are friends. The ones I hang out with, chat on the phone with, and the ones I babble with on YIM for hours at a time and trade posts with on the board. I can definitely say it was my "online friends" that got me through the worst part of my divorce, cheering me on and cheering me up when things finally went to hell, offering phone numbers if I ever needed someone to talk to. Shadow took it a step further and came down for 2 days so that I wouldn't have to handle the move all by myself. How is that not friendship?



cravesdom -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 9:38:37 PM)

I have to say that I definitely classify many people I have met online as friends, even though we have yet to meet in person. I feel their joy when they are happy and their sorrow when things are not so great in their lives. I probably know more about some of their lives than I do about my friends that I hang out with in person. I know some of them know more about my life than they may care to! I don't think the fact that we met online stops us from being friends. Friendship is a feeling. It isn't constrained by how you met or how far apart you are. It is feelings of affection for someone else. I, personally, do not need to meet someone in person to care about them.



Daddysredhead -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 10:05:59 PM)

Oh my... my online friends are friends indeed.  Several of the ladies on here have shared tons of laughs, giggles, and tears with me.  I treasure them, and one gal in particular (and I know you know who you are *wink*), has helped carry me through some of the darker times I've had this year.  I love you, sweetie, and you know that my dad says "hi."  [:)]



caro44 -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 10:16:27 PM)

I consider most of the people I have met here to be my friends. There are a few whom I consider
a litlle special (I hope you know who you are). Taht said a Stranger is only a friend you haven't met yet.




Edited for spelling, I never could spell



Sasy -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 10:49:56 PM)

Online friends ... Can they be REAL life friends? Well here is my take on that. After recently weathering Ike * groan* I found alot of my online friends coming to my aide, A case o mosquito spray was delivered to my house when I casually told someone who called to  check on us we couldnt find any  here, damn things were stalking us and all were covered in bites.
Another sent two gallons of cleaner she swore by and I have never heard of to help clean the places mold could have grown. I had water in my house .. but no mold
Another sent my kids a package of junk food knowing we were becoming rather strapped ( not the good kind) and that  they needed something  better than what we had access to at the time. Another sent me a card  that in the midst of al this mess made me laugh like a hyena So yeah .... They are REALtime friends even if NJ is to far to go for coffee



lunadancer -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 11:09:11 PM)

oh my goodness...yes on-line friends can be very good friends. i have had the pleasure of knowing several people who become friends over the years and i count every day as blessed for having known them



ResidentSadist -> RE: online friends....can they ever be classed as real life friends? (10/3/2008 11:34:32 PM)

In my world:

…friends are your “tribe”
You exchange money & services freely with friends to help in the group’s mutual survival.  By measure, a friend will help you burry the body and then bear false testimony in court to protect you. 

…your love(s) is/are your “family”
You will risk more than your time, effort and money for your love or family, you will risk your life to protect them and insure the group’s survival.  By measure, your love/family will help make the body in the first place

...online ? 
If someone is only there for your fair weather emotional support, counseling, advice or even something as intimate as phone sex, it is still just free therapy.  That is an acquaintance not a friend or a love in my book.  If you are someone online that will share money, time, labor and maybe even hop a plane to help burry the body, then you are a friend indeed.



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