Has Internet changed your definition of friendship?

I do count cyber friends as friends because they are people that I could talk to and that might try to help when I have a problem and I would be there to talk and to try to help them. I do find revealing my self to cyber frinds easier than to people I can see because I'm a little shy to talk to people face to face. Internet has actually help me to conect with friends and family that do not live in the same State or Country and also to make new cyber friends. Because now in days is really expensive to make phone calls to another country and the cell phone planes are also expensive. And with internet you can comunicate with your friends and family and you don't have to pay more since you already are paying for internet.

Hmm..Not exactly but I am glad that I've meet new friends online and though they are just my cyber friends I could say that I consider them as a friend because you know by participating in some forums you've got to share your opinions and vice-versa and sometimes it's good that way though you've never seen personally still you will feel that they were sincere though. I am not fond of chatting with other people but I am very fond of participating in some forums like here on mylot because I've got to show the other side of me. Sometimes, you got to share and consult some of your dilemma online without revealing your true identity and the good thing is those cyber friends on the forum/s response the right way so you get good advice/s.

Yes of course. Even I met friend from other country face to face after we were online chating for several months. FOrtunately I have occasion to visit her country for ten days due to my work/duty. It was very nice event more than our usual friendhip relationship we got on earth ! only we can not go on further because or some limittions. Goor morning Singapore, I come from Jakarta, Indonesia, your neighbour country. sie sie for your good topic.

I do count my cyber friends as friends. I care what happens to them and think of them often as I do my friends in the physical world. That's the beauty of the internet, we can meet and care about people all over the world who we many never meet but can share so much with.

Hi Scheng! Yes, sometimes it is easy to share the things easy to the internet friends that in the friends in the real life. I think I have written many many things there that I haven't even tell to the real friends in life. I don't have a particular online friend to whom I have tell most part of the life. For me, still I have the friend beyond internet to whom I can share most of the things. But the trend is that most of the people tend to make online friends nowadays. Not only international friends, but also some people want to start the friendship from the online. Here, I have seen many boys and girls starting their friendship online and slowly as they know each other they meet each other and even there are some cases that the relationship that finally turns into love. I think the guys who feel odd to talk to the girls and vice versa prefer this method very much to start a relation. I think the meaning of friendship remains the same, but the way of making friends remains different with the online friends. People also have different life other than the online life. They have their social life too, where they still have lots of friends. However with the internet, I think people have definitely started making less social friends than before. Well I have not played online games, but I used to be a crazy game player. It would really be interesting be make the friends in the online gaming world I think. Because they are mostly with common interest and so can be nice friend of each other to enjoy online enjoy. And in case, if they met in the real life, then again their prime discussion will be the same game, isn't it.... Nice discussion Scheng, Happy mylotting...

Nope, not one bit. My definition of friendship is just as it always has been based on how casual or not my connections are with other people. I am hardly going to be close with someone I do not actually interract with face to face on a regular basis. It is going through experiences with people that creates bonds.

Hi Scheng! Good topic. Internet has definitely changed the term'friendship' for me and I definitely find it much easier to communicate with friends here[my friends are all mostly mylot friends with whom I exchange select chats and mails-- Very few though in number. Moreover,in this place where I relocated three years ago, I do not have real friends.I have a language barrier and the people[by and large] in my compound are very old people with whom I do not have much in common and I have to converse in hindi for easy conversation.That is a big problem and I sseem to have a bias in learning it fast and communicating with these people[they do not share my intersts too]I ahev learnt typing and also MS word aftrer I came here but this hindi is something uninteresting.

No, friendship for me is still about getting to know andhaving fun with that person when ever you two or the group feels like it. Internet is just another technology that allows you to communicate with your friends in far away places but never rely in getting to know the person through the internet because it's dangerous..

Actually it doesn't changed anything at all. In fact , meeting new people around the globe through internet and finding new friends is just more options to gain more friends. Friends for me does not mean that he/she have to be there physically. Even if you can't touch and see the person but the essence of friendship is still there. When we find new friends here on the internet we can still feel their presence by being there emotionally, spiritually eventhough not in physical. We shouldn't set conditions as to who our friends are. Maybe there are times that we could find real and true friends online than in person. It's the thoughts that counts between friends . As long as they are there ready to talk when you need them, as long they are willing to help you in some other way they can when you are down, i think that's friends.

Yes internet somewhat changed the definition of friendship because through internet we can chat with friends and even contact them easily when they are online instead of visiting them to their house

I found a turth recently, people around me like talking their secret to the friend through internet, but never talking their secret to the people near them. A strange thing, but, me too, that is I do the same thing. Because they are never face to face, they don't know, who is on the other side of the internet, people can talk the secret the strangers. That is good.

For me the internet has not changed the definition of friendship. A friend is somone with whom you have, usually common interests and have formed a mutual bond of affection and esteem. I don't think that has changed with friends in the "real world". The advancement of technology has only enhanced the ways in which friends are able to communicate. True friends, still talk on the phone, see and vist with each other whenever possible. It has enabled friends that have moved away, to remain "in touch" and still share in each other's lives more easily and economically. As far as "cyber" friends go. I think most of the people met over the internet, through whatever venue, it is a matter more of aquaintances than friendships. However, through other communities, I have indeed made "friends" with people I would never have met otherwise. The freindships have usually started by noting that, through written posts on communities, that there is a common belief or interest. That leads to communicating via emails and sharing more personal information about our families, lives and the events that go on in our lives. In the course of things pictures of ourselves and of our familes are exchanged as it is nice to have a visual. In turn that has led to a sharing of phone numbers in which we often call and talk to each other, at length. I value their friendship as much as those that I can actually see everyday. I don't find revealing myself any less hard or easy, whether they be "cyber" or ones I can see everyday.

I can't say it has I'm bearly getting use to this internet stuff and how to use a computer. I know it may sound weird but I'm bearly getting to use a computer before I had my wife or my oldest kid writing my emails and also they use to looks thing for me online. Until my wife got tired and told me that I had to learn so she stoped doing thing for me and now they are trying to teach me. And about having cyber friends well I don't have any that I chat to in messangers or anything like that. I guess the only friends I have are hear are myLot.

Honestly, I don't have any cyber friends. I still prefer my highschool friends. I meet with them, text them, and I call them. I only accept my known friends in my social networking sites. I do make friends in the internet but i'm n0t disclosing my secrets to them but ofcourse. . . it still depends. Hey if you have some time, answer my questi0ns too. thanks

I think the internet has definately changed my definition of friendship. Because of the internet I have many friends whom I have never met face to face.

I am still new to the internet ,if you can call 3 years as new. The only friends i have on cyberspace are those on Mylot but i cannot call it real friendship since we are all shadow friends. We do not even know how each other looks and we do not know our real names.This friendship is more or less a business friendship where we help each other to earn. I am old fashioned as far as friendship is concerned and still value the friends i made during my school, college and working days because we know each other on a personal level and can interact by meeting or talking on the phone.New methods will keep coming in the future but i stand by the old and proven method.

Yes, of course. It makes a big difference. If internet where not there I would not have been able to find my husband. We met through online and got married four months ago. Internet helped us to make contacts with people across globe in an easy and inexpensive way. I can't think of a life without using internet.

It is not like this. I have friends in my surroundings but I make friends online because I want to learn the different cultures and languages. I am learning chinese and I don't have any friends who talk chinese here in Britain so I have some who are from mylot itself and who teach me chinese. I get to know their cultures also, and we share informations of our country to let them know hoe we are here. I have friend from India who told me many things I did not know so to have friends online is something wonderful. We are not being distant with the one we have around but we are learning something which we can share with friends here. If I visit their country I know a bit over there, they can br honest in suggesting you some very good hotels of some fabulous shopping malls, so we are only learning through them. We can socialize with people around the world too by internet so I think it is a very good initiative.

You are right but there is a word iwas introduced while making friends on the internet - acquaintance which means a relationship less intimate than friendship. So, whenever you make a friend on the net (which means you have not personally me tthe person but share similar thoughts) then you and this new person are into "acquaintanceship" and not exactly friendship! Happy MyLotting :)