Do you consider online friends with the same regard you do face-to-face friends?

I've had many great friends through the internet... some that I knew in person, first, then moved so far away, that the only way we could stay in touch was online... others that I got to know over years of just chatting and writing eachother. One girl, I was friends with, just knowing her online for a few years, then she came to my city and lived with me for a few months. It was great to know her. I've fallen in love through just knowing someone online, and visiting them was one of the greatest experiences of my life... Online, you can meet people no matter where they're from, and with so many people in the world, you can find just the right people to talk to, and get along with, and find people that match you, perfectly. Personally, I'm quite glad to have grown up in this age of computers, where there is no limit to who you can be friends with. It's like around the world, is right around the corner.

I do interact more with my friends on mylot than I do with my real friends, but since I have caught many of them in a lie or two I don't need to be reminded that this is a virtual world. On occasion to make a point I will also take on a persona in a response or discussion. I will show myself as I was many years ago or will be several years in the future. On mylot don't believe everything you read.

We are more frank with the online friends I think. Since we are not interacting with them face-to-face, introverts like me can get more acquainted with online friends. But then again we shouldn't trust just anyone, but it's usually fun to be with the usual faces online. And ya it's pretty much true that we spend more time with our online friends than the offline ones so they are an important part of our lives...

i will,over i have known him\her well and i would be careful

many years i am using chats, i have a lot of friends in wirtual world. sometimes i meet with them. but.. i like the virtual friends more, because they do not know you well. you can talk about everything without tabu. you do not need to scare about your secrets if you tell them and etc. of course you do not know they well as well, but it is more interesting! why? because everyday they can be different.. they can use the masks as much as they want and you will not know about it.. you can laugh when is your heart broken if ir is not interesting for them, they do not say shout up, or stop to cry, they listen to you (if not, you do not know this). virtual friends are not dangeroues if you have a good antivirus :)

I have online friends who I have never met nor spoke to off the net but I still consider them to be true friends. I find nothing wrong with having friends online. It is when the friends try to get you to come to where they live or start acting funny that is when I start to worry. I have had that happen once and found out later the guy was out for one thing and was trying to find it with ladies in my area. I beczame concerned then but that was the only time I had doubted any of my onluine friends. After a whiloe of talking to them you can tell how true they are. Just watch out for the few that are out there looking for other things than just a friend.