| Let's say you have a few friends but you just hang out with them and pretty much nothing else, and you have this one online friend who you just share everything, you talk everyday, play games online etc... would you consider this friendship as real as your IRL friends? or what if you dont have any friends are all, but you have a few online friends, would these friends fill the friendship loneliness void in your heart even if you can't hang around with them IRL? |
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| Nope. My friends in real life are my actual friends. I consider the majority of the people I know here as acquaintances, or nothing at all. |
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| I can get away with more things online so if someone is my friend on the internet it's more genuine because I'm not as reserved. In real life I'm quiet as a mouse until I get comfortable with the person. Even then I still hold myself back a lot from saying things. |
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| I value my MAL top friends. |
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| No, my IRL friends are irreplaceable. |
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| A connection is a connection. If I have a deep intimate connection with a person, it doesn't matter where they are. I would be friends with any of you. |
| Tbh I do. I met some awesome people through the net, some of which I've actually met irl. The thing with internet friendships is that they tend end faster and abrupter than real life friendships. |
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| I think online friends are pretty important. Back when runescape was in its prime we had a pretty close group of over 40 of us in a clan but then people started quitting and now there's only 3 of us left. I get pretty nostalgic thinking about those days. I think online friends are pretty valuable. For me, I would talk to my friends on runescape everyday but don't have that luxury with irl friends because they have moved away. I think real life friends are more valuable because of the experiences you can share but don't think valuing online friends is weird at all. |
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| Nah, I've actually never felt like really "close" to a person online as you would IRL, so I think I will never value an online friend as much as IRL friend |
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| The two are obviously very different, but I feel like sometimes online friendship can be stronger than IRL friendship. F.e.: A guy/girl you talk with online and play games all day is better than an IRL friend you only talk to every 2 week for 10 minutes. But it goes the other way around too. Most of the time IRL friendship is stronger. The one thing that makes me value online friendship so much is that you can become friends with people living in distant countries, and you'd probably never meet them without the internet. It also helps to make you more open-minded, since you get to know people from different cultures. IRL friendship's advantage is that you can actually see if the person you are talking to is listening to you, while on the internet you can't be sure if the person on the other side is even paying attention. And IRL expression is true and real, while an internet emoticon is over-exaggerated. |
kyle said: http://puu.sh/gmoH4/ad0e971857.jpgzoknimano said: I value my MAL top friends. Pics |
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| You got a special place in mah heart. What purpose does the top friends list serve anyway? |
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| I can't promise we'll be good friends but if you wanna chat I can do that :) |
| Now you're wondering if there's white text in any of my other posts. Over there, I'm everywhere. I know that. |
| I value my IRL friends and online friends equally. If I'm being completely honest, I'm probably a little closer to my online friends. They share the same interests as me and we can watch shows together, play games, text during the day, etc. None of my friends IRL like anime or games, but we still have fun going out together and hanging out. Both groups of friends are there for me when I need them. I've met a few of my online friends IRL and it was a lot of fun. I don't think it's fair when people act as if meeting online makes your friendship mean less, especially when the internet allows you a great opportunity to meet and talk with people that are more compatible with you than the people you are able to meet in your area. |
badwolf45f said: Let's say you have a few friends but you just hang out with them and pretty much nothing else, and you have this one online friend who you just share everything, you talk everyday, play games online etc... would you consider this friendship as real as your IRL friends? Yes I would. A friend is a friend despite how you communicate with them. what if you dont have any friends at all, but you have a few online friends, would these friends fill the friendship loneliness void in your heart even if you can't hang around with them IRL? It depends on your personalities, closeness, and if either of you feel a need to meet up. If everything is going fine online, then it shouldn't be an issue. I usually make an effort to occasionally meet up with the people I've developed close friendships with online. If you try this, be careful. |
| If i talk to them a lot like everyday and have some fun convos and stuff i value them as much as rl friends. I actually value them more than some rl friends cuz im not rly close to many ppl. I cant say i value them more then my niggas though |
MurauMar 4, 2015 12:06 PM
| I find it easier to form a bond with people online. Assuming they're a sincere type of person, getting an idea of what someone is like is just as easy online as it is offline, it not easier. I don't think a physical connection is that integral for it. With my own personal preferences aside, I'd say they're fundamentally equal methods of social connection. Then again, I don't have any offline, or as you call it, "IRL", friends to begin with, so I can't exactly compare. |
Abby-Mar 4, 2015 12:03 PM
| I value some online friends more than "irl" friends, and vice versa. A connection is a connection. |
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| I love y'all but no... That being said, online friends are much easier to talk to and have better taste in anime and bishounen. |
| Yes. For me my online friends have been what have helped me kill time when I'm bored or alone. I hate to admit this but some of them I treasure more than my school friends... >.> My oldest online friend I have has been chatting with me since late 2012.. |
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| No |
 Anime is good, fucking deal with it. |
| What is "IRL friendship" ? (◡‿◡✿) |
| I value all my friendships. Just having any friends that share my interests in real life or online is enough for me. |
| Assume nothing, expect everything. Lelouch vi Britannia said: If the King does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow? |
| Yes and no in some ways |
| I dont really have any online friends so i wouldnt know though BunnyMe said: Touchable friends are better XD |
BunnyMe said: Touchable friends are better XD |
| No. |
BunnyMe said: Touchable friends are better XD ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
BunnyMe said: KawaiiWeeabz said: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I never understood what that smiley means O_O ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) |
| As far as I'm concerned a friend is a friend. It's the connection that matters not so much the medium in which that connection is formed. I met my girlfriend on MAL over a year ago and we are still together and closer to each other than anyone I met in person first. As someone else said earlier I think it's easier to get to know someone initially online since you can be more forthcoming, and in person you are usually more inclined to reserve yourself a bit. |
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| I have some great online friends that I love. They honestly know more about me than most anyone I have around me "irl". I value their company as much as any other friend. The whole distance thing sucks though. |
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| I don't value any kind .-. they serve their purpose and eventually we stop talkin |
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Sakuyae said: The two are obviously very different, but I feel like sometimes online friendship can be stronger than IRL friendship. F.e.: A guy/girl you talk with online and play games all day is better than an IRL friend you only talk to every 2 week for 10 minutes. But it goes the other way around too. Most of the time IRL friendship is stronger. The one thing that makes me value online friendship so much is that you can become friends with people living in distant countries, and you'd probably never meet them without the internet. It also helps to make you more open-minded, since you get to know people from different cultures. IRL friendship's advantage is that you can actually see if the person you are talking to is listening to you, while on the internet you can't be sure if the person on the other side is even paying attention. And IRL expression is true and real, while an internet emoticon is over-exaggerated. I agree, but the thing is, and hate to admit it, online friends stay on a very superficial level. You can't really experience something that isn't confined on a virtual setting. That is very lacking! Be it on aforum, a game or whatever, real friendship needs human contact, it grows out of irl situations, hardships or everyday life which simply are missing in a virtual place. You are not able to see how they are, or behave, in those situations. I have trouble explaining it I have a lot of experience with online friends. I was head of a RTS game clan, being able to meet really awesome people I really get along with. I considered them my little brothers and spent an insane amount of time with them not just playing, but talking, discussin, so much that we really exceeded the plain "game relantionship". After a 4 years of that we stopped playing but we made a group on facebook where we can keep in touch. I met some of them irl too. Same goes for forums. I met a few guys like 10 years ago and since then we always jumped from forum to forum together. I consider them more valuable to me than most of my closest irl friends because we simply shared so much. Thanks to them I was able to see the world from a totally different angle, learn a lot of different things.. |
RollTheJointMar 4, 2015 1:32 PM
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| I really don't have any IRL friends because the ones I had are stuck in their high school mentalities and act like children. |
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