Comments on: Online Friends are Real Friends

By: A Little Coffee

A Little Coffee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:59:08 +0000

I agree that the friendships and connections are real, just like I think you can create a true bond through long distance online dating (not that I'd recommend it, but the feelings are real.) But, I do tend to refer to these friendships as "blog friends."

By: FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:15:20 +0000

LOL!! “Hey Clam..”

The VERY few who have met me IRL, still call me “FB” which I am okay with

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:17:17 +0000

The family was great! But there was no way we were going to tell our parents that we were getting a plane to Florida and staying with a friend that we know from online.

Also, your mention of calling someone by the "tag" – it was so hard to use her real name around her mom when I'd known her as "clam" for a year!

By: @hecatedracul

@hecatedracul — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:28:05 +0000

I think it is nice to have both. I love having "online" friends who aren't as emotionally attached to me and I love my "real world" friends, even though they (and myself) are very flawed.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:55:25 +0000

Web2.0, baby!
I call the online contacts "friends" as well. Because it's people I resonate with, with whom I share my thoughts and who reply saying "I understand". Sometimes, as you said we don't talk to real life friends in the same way. The Internet has shed some of our inhibitions away.

By: Akirah

Akirah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:02:33 +0000

I've met some amazingly supportive friends through my blogging. I can't wait to go to Vegas and meet some of them. I think it's good to be safe about it and to not overshare, but I can't imagine my life without my blogging friends.

By: Mrs. Money

Mrs. Money — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:01:04 +0000

I have met SO MANY wonderful people online! My (now IRL) best friend and I were trying to come up with something better to tell my family when she came to my wedding, etc than “we met 8 years ago on diaryland”. It just sounded lame to us.

My hubby works a lot at night so it’s fun to hop on the computer and chat with a fellow blogger. There are a lot of pf bloggers I consider close friends and would love to hang out with IRL!
.-= Mrs. Money´s last blog ..Advertising is Everywhere =-.

By: paranoidasteroid

paranoidasteroid — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:54:27 +0000

If I need to mention a blogger I know online, I'll just say, "a girl/guy I know" and not really elaborate unless it's necessary.

I definitely don't think it's weird to be friends with people online. Look at it this way – most people communicate with IRL friends through the internet now anyway – think Facebook, email, etc.

By: FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:05:59 +0000

AWESOME points!!

That was something I just thought about too in one of my other replies — that you can’t take back words, but you can edit and perfect your typing.

I also find that people online who act a certain way, can be VERY different in real life, good or bad. It’s difficult to get a range of emotions and the feel of someone when you are just reading their words.

I once had online friends when I was younger, and they were kind of quiet online, not typing or talking much, but in person they were firecrackers

By: FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com

FB @ FabulouslyBroke.com — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:03:53 +0000

If only we could just meet a spot in the middle of North America, get free flights & lodging there and have a good ol’ meet up