General Discussion

I married a friend who I met through a Scavenge match on Left 4 Dead 2.
I play Dungeons and Dragons with him over Skype, with our internet friends from California and Michigan.

I find it easier to articulate myself via technology. I've always been very insecure about my entire being. Appearance, voice, etc. To get to know someone online through text anonymously grants me a better connection point where I feel comfortable.

I was on the news the other day, and my friends have told me that I didn't look/sound that bad, it was just very obviously stage fright from being on camera. However, overhearing someone talking about it in person behind my back, I overheard that I was very cringy and it struck a hard chord and reminded me of why it's so hard to connect to people in face to face.

i met my absolute best friend, @souperal , online on FR and i couldn't be happier. i love them to the moon and back and i've never had a better, more caring person in my life. we even met up for the first time irl at disney in california and it was like the best day of my life!

so, needless to say, i think that online friendships are definitely worth it. i wouldn't be the happy person i am today without my internet friend.

I'm glad for the internet. It's like a mask you wear to disguise your physical attributes, so people can only judge you by your personality. When I met my group of friends I was still in the midst of an H attack from ADHD that was only just beginning to taper off, so... they probably wouldn't have liked me very much had they met me in real life. And I know that because I had no real-life friends.

I'm still a little... weird thanks to anxiety, but now I at least feel confident enough to take that mask off, and I still find it a lot easier to talk online, so the physical anonymity the internet provided really helped. I don't know what I would have done without my friends.

Not to mention, without online friends, what other 18-year-old from America can say they have friends from Singapore, the Philippines, Ireland, Australia, Canada, England, and all across the US? I love the diversity. xD

Also I met my boyfriend, my best friend, and a ton of other great people so yeah, gotta love the internet. xD

My best Internet Friend is around...5-4 Years older than me,but we are the same mental level I guess. It's awesome :P

I think it's an absolutely amazing thing, that like you say is much less vain than real-life friends.

I'm totally cool with having internet friends because I have anxiety while talking to people in real life. I do have friends irl but they are just as weird as I am. So i guess it kind of works out, internet or real life.

I like internet friends to an extent but nothing beats being able to see my irl friends... irl. XD I prefer physical presence/being able to go out and do things with friends, though it is a lot easier to communicate online due to my severe social anxiety.