Virtual friends

[Macintosh]

The world is small, one day I'll meet all my virtual friends.

[rudy_o]

But my friends usually follow it up with

"Only messing with you, It's actually quite cool"

:wacko:

 

 

But it would be irritating if it was just that :\

 

How I wish the statement comes with a complementary praise like that, but nah, it was really just that . . . with an additional sigh. :sick:

[busybeeburns]

Oh and it's kind of odd introducing real life friends to internet friends over the internet :blank:

is that more or less odd than introducing internet friends to real life friends in real life?

[Crests]

None of my friends know except for Chelsea who I got to be a member on here and my other friend who also has a lot of internet friends.

 

Well, I'm sure others have figured it out by now. :P

[rudy_o]

is that more or less odd than introducing internet friends to real life friends in real life?

Both are equally odd. :blank:

[EmmaLouiseSmyth]

is that more or less odd than introducing internet friends to real life friends in real life?

I've never had to do that, hopefully I will in the furture :wacko:

 

 

Though, yeah it probably would be much more odd.

[the_gloaming09]

I honestly don't really talk to many online people. This place is the main forum that I chat w/ people. Even so I haven't met any people online in real life, but that is going to change really soon.

[Violet]

I've never really been questioned about my friends on Facebook. :thinking:

 

I do think it would be really cool to meet you guys IRL. I should start with all the Texan homies and work my way outward. :wacko:

 

I don't know, though. I would definitely come across much differently in real life than I do here on the 'Net. I sound much more confident than I really am because I'm just typing words, as opposed to actually talking. For the most part, I fail at communicating, especially when it comes to making eye contact. :bigcry:

[Crests]

I fail at communicating and eye contact and stuff too! :cheesy:

 

People scare me. :blank:

[Violet]

Hey, me too! :cheesy: Let's be scared of people together. :nice:

[the_gloaming09]

I've never really been questioned about my friends on Facebook. :thinking:

 

I do think it would be really cool to meet you guys IRL. I should start with all the Texan homies and work my way outward. :wacko:

 

I don't know, though. I would definitely come across much differently in real life than I do here on the 'Net. I sound much more confident than I really am because I'm just typing words, as opposed to actually talking. For the most part, I fail at communicating, especially when it comes to making eye contact. :bigcry:

 

haha... same here. I'm much more quiet in real life.

[Crests]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! :awesome:

[EmmaLouiseSmyth]

Eye contact :bigcry: I hate it.

[Crests]

I've been trying to teach myself to do it, I do not like it one bit.

But I'm kinda tired of getting made fun of and stuff for looking a whole other direction when having a conversation or something. :wacky:

[Violet]

haha... same here. I'm much more quiet in real life.

 

Yeah, I'm kinda the same way. Around the general population, I'm much more of a listener than a conversationalist. However, around the right people (like family and friends) or given the right topic in the discussion, I'm very talkative.

[Megalomania]

See, I'd love to do this. Just go and meet some of the people on here IRL, but my parents already have a fit that I talk to people I've never really met.

 

Me too, but considering I'm not even supposed to still visit this forum, I don't think it'll happen until I'm not living with my parents :uhoh:

[mc_squared]

once you start to meet "virtual people" in real life it opens up the possibility that you may meet them all. And it works, just look at all the friendships (and relationships) that have developed from Coldplaying alone. Think of it as being 3-D, rather than the 2-D run of the mill stuff.

 

Spot on!:D

[Crests]

I'm mostly only talkative when it comes to one of my interests, it saddens me that those topics don't come up more. :disappointed:

 

I always feel bad when I visit my friends or something, because I ignore them a lot of the time. :sad:

[Violet]

Hey, it's not your fault. :hug:

[Megalomania]

I don't live near any of my friends, so I don't visit them that much :\

[Tnspieler1012]

I find the term 'virtual friends' odd because it implies said friends aren't real people or that they don't actually exist. And I find the term 'foreigners' very odd because it seems to imply xenophobia.

[Gitta Rensolo]

I do not really talk about my "virtual friends" in real life....might have something to do with my education....my mum actually never wanted me to have friends on the internet...she is too worried about things.

[Destrokk]

My mom will freak if I told her, that's why I keep this quiet.

Altho, I do mention it to my friend Sabori and sometimes my cousin.

But they don't really care, non of my real-life friends even use Facebook :tongue:

[Empily]

Oh and it's kind of odd introducing real life friends to internet friends over the internet :blank:

 

Haha I brought Harry here once and I'm not sure he really understood what was going on :tongue:

Tho he has his own internet friends elsewhere in cyberspace, but even I find it odd when he goes on about his internet friends so I spose it's odd when I go on about you lot :awesome:

 

My mom will freak if I told her, that's why I keep this quiet.

:

 

Same here :lol:

I don't think my parents would understand if I told them I was talking to people online, they would just go down the whole route of pedos and rapists :thinking:

 

You have to kinda know this place in context to actually understand it properly, I feel.

[Destrokk]

I'm 95% sure most of my friends here aren't pedophiles.