How much do you believe in online friends?

For me whether it is the virtual world or the real worlds. Each experience be it with new or old friends, allows us to think and grow. Whether we grow better or grow worse will be determined not by the conversation, or the experience, but by how we chose to interpret it. All our friends, both online and off can affect our lives for the better or the worse, and yes, it does partly have something to do with the conversation, but more to do with how we think. Cheers.

I'm not sure quite what you mean by the second part of your sentence, so I'm guessing you mean that the friendships depend greatly on how good the conversations are. But friendship takes a long time normally anyway - very few people hit it off in one evening. And because conversations on the Net are slower than in real life, it takes longer to build up a knowledge of the other person. I don't think it's a virtual world at all - that's something else altogether. But it's a different medium of friendship.

I have made a lot of online friends, and among them quiet a few have been genuine friends. But it's the same with real life friends as well. You make very few genuine friends in real life, and most of them are superficial. In fact I met one of the best friends ever, through the net.