Do you allow yourslef to be hurt by e-friends or online friends?

I just know the cyber space is a specially place,we shouldn't compare it with the thing in the life. so i have not any request about the friend here.JUST have best wishes.certainly won't be hurt by them .

Online friends or offline ones, friends are friends. If you get into a deep enough relationship, naturally you will be hurt if something goes wrong. Quite the same for most, I would think.

LOl no I really don't I don't get that close to someone I meet online, so I don't really care what people here or on any other website say to me :-)

I have some real online friends and many just to pass the time (I don't consider them as my 'friends'.) I will naturally get hurt if they delete or say something unpleasant to me. But I won't turn offensive. Because they too have their choice/option to do or say what they like. Thank you for a good post.

it's really a a pain in the head if you'll take it seriously. If ever I will encounter one, that will really make a war between us, then I must be ready to defend myself. I am not a person who easily gives up. I fight for what I think is right. We're just online friends. He don't know the real me and so, he do not have the right to judge me. :)

OH I have been out right attacked before. It wasn't fun and I no longer talk to them. It's funny because when things came full circle and people could see the truth it felt good for that one person to come back and say I was so wrong about you. ANyway tht is allover now. I only have a few very "good" online friends.

yeah its really hurts. I have experienced it many times some people they speak and at some stage they say why i have to speak to you it really hurts. and some people say its a time pass to chat with friends online and its not a sign for a search in true friend. I think friends are not for times pass there are many ways to pass time this is not only the way to pass time..

Hi monkey. Mylot is the first and only forum I joined where I began to understand about online friends. When I was just a newbie, I saw a lot of discussions posted about meeting their true half, soul mate, partner and best friends through online. Initially, I found it ridiculous thinking how was it possible. Gee...I was so wrong. I have gained a lot of friends here. Some are simply friends who partake in my discussions. Some are friends like you who I began to have this "affinity" whom I can exchanged wits and humor. I also have really close friends where we exchanged PM or emails everyday. I can't really explained it precisely what I felt about online friends. Yes, I will be hurt when they suddenly dropped me. That's why I have learned long ago not to get too involved and mastered the art of detaching my emotions from online friends. I just want to avoid feeling that pain. I know you will understand what I'm saying, monkey.

None of my online friends are close enough to hurt me in the event of deleting or not responding. I don't chat with anybody. So no problem of worrying about stoping talk. My online friendships are business like. Thank you.

Hello,misheleen,I have not really hurt by someone online,although I have been deleted by someone before,I was not happy but i could not control what they did and i had to admit that i did not reply them enough,so they had their reasons doing this. I always tresure th friendship in mylot,I am really close to some of my friends,i may get hurt if they stop talking to me and delete me one day,but again,i cannot control what they do,i can just let it go.

I've been hurt, devastated even and I brought it all to myself, I was stupid really, I fell inlove with one of my online friends and it was a definite no-no, I mustn't let myself fell for that again. On the other hand, I don't mind having a lot of online friends, I welcome offers of friendship since I am a human being and in need of human interaction. If a friend deletes me on his/her list, I would of course ask him/her why, I feel i owe an explanation, I'll readily accept other people's decisions, I cannot decide for them. Id they refuse to enlighten me, then they just lost a good friend. I treasure cyber friends. Friends are friends no matter how you met them or how you interact with them. Your way of communicating with each other doesn't change the meaning of friendship, I love my online friends. But I do safeguard myself from getting too personal and up-close with cyber friends, I don't wanna fall inlove again online, it's not healthy for me.

I have met some "treasure" e-friens (by the way, have you heard this word elsewere, or did I invent it?). It seems that I have dissapointed one. I don't know exactly what I did wrong, I think perhaps it is just that internet cannot fulfill all our communication needs, so that causes misunderstandings... (you don't see the other's face, you cannot be sure what is she/he thinking, you start wanting to share something more real and you can't...). So I don't try to avoid this kind of relation, but now I try to never show myself specially interested in something deep... at least until I clarify my mind and think on something better.

No. I just don't get that attached to people I have never met.

yes it commen to be hurt by e-friend

oh yes!! i am a very sensitive person (that costa me a lot though). i have quite a few good virtual and real friends and anything untoward from them would hurt me like anything. i would get upset and sad. recently one on my friends here in myLot , who herself had asked for my friendship, deleted me from the list. i felt very bad about it. but then, this is life and it should go on...

Yes, once. One girl here in myLot irritated me with her words. I posted a discussion titled "Laurie Baker passed away" and there was 0 responses for that for few days.She responded to it firstly and wrote Laurie Baker was a great man and blah blah. She was a beginner in myLot. I thanked her. Two more responses came later. After that she made a comment that she responded to my discussion by seeing the 0 response and she have no idea as to who is Laurie Baker and his greatness. It irritated me very much. Because Laurie Baker was really a man of greatness in many fields and I admire him respect him very much. She never said a sorry too. I think question of allowing never arises. It depends on one's character and approach towards others.

Not really. I did make quite some nice friends online, but I don't really know them, only what they told me about them . I care for them in my own way but I do no allow myself to be hurt by them. WE never know if what we know is really what it is - the majority of times it is, but some it is not. By the way, I have been safe quarding myself even with friends in real life too so I don't reserve this just for online friends:)

I don't really regard my online friends as "true friends." I think you'd be setting yourself up to get hurt this way, plus, you have no idea what these people are like in real life. Most people have an online persona that is completely different to the way they act in real life! I have met friends-of-friends through websites like Myspace, but until I have spent time with someone face-to-face, I would not regard them as a true friend. I like speaking to my online friends though, don't get me wrong! x

I will not be hurt by e-Friends or online friends if they do not talk to me anymore or delete me from their friend list. Unless they are very close friend to me.

Yes, I do! I have lots of e-friends, and I care about them as much as I care about my "real friends". Or sometimes even more. :) And of course, if someone I care about does something to hurt me, I'll feel really bad.