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I find it easier to talk to real life friends. I thought more people would agree. 😕

I agree. With these internet people....you never know what they are thinking as they type......and you never know if they are some creep with bad intentions.....and internet people are not as careful as real world people.....somehow cyberworld gives them a false sense of security and privacy to do whatever they want.....hell, in the cyber world, they could be the king...

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this is not about cannibalism...please get back on topic

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I think it is exactly the topic. I see nothing wrong.

I don't make online friends.

It's true that I don't try/attempt to make online friends. I mean yea, I send messages back and forth to people online, add them as "friends" but I never really considered them as "friends." Mainly because on the internet you can be who you want to be. You never really know who it is you've been messaging. Yea they can send/post a picture of them holding a little piece of paper with their user name written on it or whatever (like they do on some websites to prove that they are not fake which they call "salutes" ). But still in the end you still don't know who they really are.

Most of the time anyway...

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...You never talk face to face. You don't know if they're lying about who they are, whether that be age, gender, attitude, etc.

Reminds me of the time I found out that chueisha was a 50 year old grandma >_>

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I don't really get what 'differentiate' means but...I'm someone who rarely has more than a few 'real friend's at any one time. Never more than three usually. This is because i become very close to whoever i'm currently friends with... they usually get to hear a great deal about what i'm doing and my opinions (and i listen to theirs if they're willing to give them).

Most of the friends i've had were online, because i find it easier to open out while typing. Real life is more intense, and another reason online works, is because it's easier to find suitable people with similar interests (almost impossible to find people like that near where i live).

lately i supose i had 2 close online friends and 1 close RL friend, but i stopped talking to the RL friend for various chaotic reasons... I don't wish to dig my own grave...not yet anyway.

A friend to me, is someone who i have trust in, someone who knows a lot about me and there is a mutural enjoyment of company.

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I don't make online friends.

It's true that I don't try/attempt to make online friends. I mean yea, I send messages back and forth to people online, add them as "friends" but I never really considered them as "friends." Mainly because on the internet you can be who you want to be. You never really know who it is you've been messaging. Yea they can send/post a picture of them holding a little piece of paper with their user name written on it or whatever (like they do on some websites to prove that they are not fake which they call "salutes" ). But still in the end you still don't know who they really are.

What about 'online friends' you Have also met in real life? (just an example cause one of my closer online friends i have met up with in the past). What category are they under?

Honestly, I hate when people use the term "online friends", because most of the friends I meet online I dont even talk to over the internet anymore.

But no, not usually. I mean, my long distance friends are just as important to me as the friends that live near me.

I got like 2 online friends that I could consider the same as RL friends. I mean we text/call etcetc.

Forever lurking...

i used to be really big into chatrooms and made friends there and various anime sites i use to go to. Plus although i dont like to admit it. i used to play neopets ^^; but i met some really cool friends there until i got banned >.< so strict i was mad at one of my real life friedns and was telling my online friend in some choice words (bitch is one that comes to mind) but then again i didnt have their fone number or anything but when we were online, we always messaged each other. but i agree with the other ppl, friends are friends online or offline. why should seeing their face be so importent for me the inside is what counts the most,and thats the only thin you see online. Plus if you considered a person your friend why would they lie to you? i think online friends are always better
😃 since my online friends know more about me than anyone else, mostly cause i dont have to SAY half the stuff i tell them. and it depends on how good of friends im with them. i dont know about you but the only ppl i talk to reguraly online are people im really good friends with and whom i share ALOT with.

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Yes...like some things I talk with my online friends, I'd never do with my real friends. Since they don't like manga/anime, I don't talk to them about hehe. And well, I'm a little bit more open with my online friends because they don't know who I am haha.

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I don't make online friends.

It's true that I don't try/attempt to make online friends. I mean yea, I send messages back and forth to people online, add them as "friends" but I never really considered them as "friends." Mainly because on the internet you can be who you want to be. You never really know who it is you've been messaging. Yea they can send/post a picture of them holding a little piece of paper with their user name written on it or whatever (like they do on some websites to prove that they are not fake which they call "salutes" ). But still in the end you still don't know who they really are.

What about 'online friends' you Have also met in real life? (just an example cause one of my closer online friends i have met up with in the past). What category are they under?

I wasn't thinking about that cause me myself I'd never meet up with someone I have only talked to online anyway sorry but I meant,
"Most of the time anyway..."

Although its obviously just my opinion (well of course it is I wrote it). I was talking about myself, the way I see it , not everyone else so I guess I shouldn't have used the word "you".
Oh-well 🙂
Oh and I don't know how to answer your question 😕 I guess they'd fall under the category "new friend" 😃

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Yes...because I'm closer to the friends I make on MU 🤣 j/k j/k

But seriously, I still differentiate online friends from real friends because just as lamb said said you don't really know what they're like in real life coughstalkercough >.>

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Reminds me of the time I found out that chueisha was a 50 year old grandma >_>

...wut? 😲

Yes, I do.
I can do whatever I want to my online friends,
though it is limited to text and images. (Duh.)
I wouldn't be able to discuss the same
subjects with my IRL friends, since they
highly disagree with me and they would
think I am sick if I'd actually be completely open.

Friends are friends.
It's great to have them either way.

But like what others have said, there's always this invisible line limiting us to a certain extent online. Though I'm not saying it's impossible to become real friends through the internet, it's just seems quite rare.

In contrast to real life, your whole profile is displayed open and you can find people that can accept you for who you are.

But online, things are different. Some tend to pretend, as to some online personas differ greatly compared to their real life personas. To me, it's not the same if you can't be yourself. Then again, you'll never know since it's online. Some have masks behind that computer screen. Reveal it if you can. 🤨

Meh... I'm content.

friends are friends to a degree.. i mean i wouldn't discuss about my crazy love for yaoi irl so with online friends i can be more open.. but that is the only difference between them 😛

All humans have different facets - "masks" sort of speak. You put a different "mask" on depending on the person you're dealing with whether it'd be your lover, parents, friends, boss, police officer, and so on. So in other words, you're just showing another facet of yourself on the internet. And that's not really wrong per se, since that's still a part of yourself. Even if a human has different faces, all those faces still belong to the same human.

At the end of the day, you still had a conversation with someone.

That being said, I met a lot of honest people on MU! And even if they were all lying, I fell in love with their lies, then. 😮

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Friends are friends. I like my online friends. They are a lot more interesting people there, too (than most the people I know).

Like somebody said here somewhere "those are real people".

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