Do you think you can make a good friendship online?

@marguicha (223863)
Chile
April 27, 2009 7:38am CST
I have a wonderful canadian friend that I´ve never seen, except by pictures. We met online, playing at pogo. He started telling the people in the room about Canada and I thought he was interesting. We started e -ailing each other and that was the beginning of it. I wish I had money to go see him. As I´m a lot older that he is, I tell him I´m his witchmother Do you have a good online friend? Share Have agood day
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@nv_jenn (207)
• Canada
27 Apr 09
I really do believe you can make good friends online. I believe what makes them good or true friends is; alot of times you have never met the person online so they don't exactly know who you are it its nice to start things that way. They don't have a reason to lie to you, they usually speak the most honest truth and really are there for you when you need them. When my mom passed in 2003 I had alot of online friends that consoled me as well as "in life friends". I don't know if some people consider it really weird or not but I do spend quite a bit of time online and it's nice to have other friends online, even from other parts of the world. It lets us know how and what things are like there.... PS marguicha... I am a Canadian too :)
• India
27 Apr 09
I am sure we can make good friends online...Mylot is a superb example..There are lot more sites like orkut,facebook etc,..
@megh4u (372)
• Alpharetta, Georgia
27 Apr 09
Yes it is possible that one can be good friends online since firendship doesnot require any thing to be friends all you need to be regular chat or communicate in some way are quite a popular way and the most important thing about friend ship is that the understandability it is the biggest factor which tells that if you are understandable between each other....
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• Philippines
27 Apr 09
Yes, it is possible. Making friends online is one way of learning other cultures one way or another.
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• India
27 Apr 09
Sure ... you came friends online ... but beware of spams ... share ur felling and tell him to share ... then take a discussion ...... but .. u can make online good friends .. coz i have some ... they r lots of helpful in many ways ... so carry on !
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@chimrani (1426)
• India
27 Apr 09
Yes my friend there are many good peoples online who are helpful but some are spams too.
27 Apr 09
yes, especially by using a webcam to communicate with your pen pal so that you can see hear and talk to your online friend.
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
27 Apr 09
I have several very close online friends....and many of us have been friends for several yrs....some I've met and hung out with either at their place, or my place or we've met at a club for drinks etc....
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• Philippines
28 Apr 09
happy couple - Sophie and Xavier
Yes I can and I did. I met my current bf from an online dating website last October and we decided to meet last November. We have spent some time together already for about a week. He is coming back here in my country this coming Saturday night and he will be having a vacation for 3 weeks. This will be the longest vacation that we will ever have in our lives. Both of us travel for work and we seldom travel for leisure without thinking of our work. It would be nice to just relax in the beach and don't worry about anything. I attached our picture together taken last November.
@flagella08 (5065)
• Philippines
28 Apr 09
are you still single maybe you too can try. age doesn't matter anyways.as long as you understand and respect each others' views. it's okay to be friends on,ine. if you think you are ready to take the next level of your friendship then you can meet each other in person.
@marguicha (223863)
• Chile
28 Apr 09
I was more thinking about plain friendship. I am a widow but I wouldn´t seek conciously a b/f online. If´s not really a matter of age.
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
27 Apr 09
I have several great friends online. Some I've had the opportunity to meet, others is basically seeing each other (as well as family and pets) through online pictures. Almost all of them were met at Pogo. There's just something about that site... I even met my husband there, and we've been married for almost 5 years now. I may not have won a money jackpot there yet, but I've won some wonderful friends. One thing I find really interesting is that many of the friends I've met here in myLot also are Pogo members.
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@venmarz13 (735)
• Indonesia
28 Apr 09
ehm i dont think so.in online so many liar!.they sometime make their look is better than the fact.and usually it a group of people who wanna get joke to you.just be carefull.there are so amny intend of them.if you have a friend please keep them.they will help you later if you need that online friend
• United States
28 Apr 09
I have never gotten too close to anyone online. I chat and that, but that's it.
@fergus (817)
• Ireland
28 Apr 09
Hi marguicha, Thats nice you made friends online welldone no i don,t have any close friends online but theres allways hope.
@marguicha (223863)
• Chile
28 Apr 09
I have only made a couple of good friends. But in real life making friends is not that easy either
@AmAllen (119)
• United States
28 Apr 09
One of my closest and dearest friends lives in Michigan and i in georgia. We met on Pogo. migrated to talking on pogo and aim. Then swapped numbers, so we were on the phone together all the time. The biggest attraction between us was our love of books (reading and writing them). We started proofing each others stories, mail books back and forth. She even sends my kids and husband books if she finds something she thinks they will enjoy. When she and her husband split then later divorced I was the only one that knew all the intimate details of the situation. My kids call her Aunt Ang, and love to talk on the phone to her. Punch line, we are both to broke to travel sooo we have never seen each other physically, but that doesn't mean during holiay seasons she isn't expecting pictures of me and the fam. Or even send just everyday snapshots. Nor does it mean she is allowed to not send me pictures all the time. I love her dearly and would keep her over some people I have met in more traditional ways.
@AmAllen (119)
• United States
28 Apr 09
I understand and I am so sorry for your loss. Let her live through you though. Everyone in our life affects us some how. It is how we perceive it that matters. I am going to send you a friend request. Hope to get to know you well.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
27 Apr 09
I think it is possible to make good friendship online. I have lots of good friends online that I got from yahoo chat. I have good friends from other countries. I also sometimes wish that I could meet them, but I know I don't have money to go and meet them.
@chimrani (1426)
• India
27 Apr 09
Yes i we can make good friends online and i too agree with subho1989 that there are some spams.So just beware and make only friend ship with good peoples
@weng_08 (282)
• Philippines
28 Apr 09
Hi Marguicha, Yes, I have met several friends online. I have met some of them through my friendster account, and most of them have become good friends of mine. We do keep in touch regularly and I can say that we value our friendship. I do not get to see them but I know they are my friends. Have a great day! Weng
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
28 Apr 09
i feel as if i have made some good friends on mylot. i think it would be alot of fun to meet them. when i had my antique store & was selling on ebay i got to meet two of the people that bought from me all the time. one was from teaxas & her & her family came twice to see me. i loved it. i still hear from her. the other one was from california. she came to see me to. i think it's neat to meet people u have met online. i haven't heard from her in years. in fact i feel as if something happened to her but had no way of finding out.
• Philippines
28 Apr 09
Yes. In fact, I've already made friends here in the online world through forums. It's much easier to make friends that way because you can exchange discussions with each other.
@Bluefar (21)
• China
28 Apr 09
It's depends on your luck. I have heard many stories about these. Some people cheated and Some people got the honest friendship. Certainly, you can talk with some people online with same characters. Gradually, you can develop a close relation. Maybe, you can become true friend. However, It is in short of sound foundation. As the time pass, you will find that you are so diffent that you can't imagine.