How Different Are Online nd Offline Friends For U ????

You make me wonder whether I qualify as a friend, or an aunt, or what you mentioned in post script - ugh! I thought I am a good aunty. :-) If you dont endorse that you've lost my friendship for sure.

Well BB, first of all, to make friends just for refferals are rude. I tend to ignore those who try that one on me. And there is not really much of a difference between on- and offline friends. I like them all. TATA.

I think that first we have to define 'friend' then we can start to answer your question. I know a lot of people offline like I also know, not personally but through their writing or even phone calls but I have not met them in person, a lot of people online. I have made friends with a lot offline and some online too but not all of the people that I jhave met are friends - some are just acquaintances. The ones that are friends have something that, like a magnet, attracted us to get more involved in our personal situations after getting to know more about each other. I would tryst those online friends as much as I trust the offline ones - or I would not consider them to be friends in the first place. Thos that add you on a list like here are not friends when you add them but they can then become one after we start to get to know each other better. Just like offline you would bump into someone in the street and get to know them better before you called them a friend surely?

Last night my brother and I were just having a conversation related to this. I was worried about one of my friends, and I mentioned it in conversation. He wanted to know some specifics and when I told him he said "so this isn't a real person that you are talking about". I tried to explain that it definitely was a real person, but he just could not seem to understand the concept of being friends with someone that you have never met or seen in person. I tried to explain that it is almost like going to a bar, because you can see those people but have never met them before so you still do not know anything about them. He just could not grasp the concept, though.

Hi Sunny, In this virtual world of social networking and online earning establishing a good friendship is truly a gift. we just have to be extra careful in establishing such relationship where trust is build. of course there's a great difference but the bottomline is they are both our friends. we both provide support with each other and enjoy each other's company and learn from it!

Theres no difference,I consider both friends to treasure, I don't give any hindrance to anybody who wants to be my friends,as long as I know they're not doing anything wrong with me,I will value them as same individual.Online friends can be good as offline and vise versa,So friends online and offline having the same value for me.! Happy myLotting!

I do have a lot of online friends, some of them I met when I was starting to explore the internet which is around ten years ago. They also don't have any differentiation because they are all friends of mine. I also don't mix friendship with business or money that's why I still have them as friends.

as much as possible i try to treat both my online and offline friends in the same manner. many will find that my online personality is pretty much what they could see when offline. hehe however like in real life, there are varying degrees in online friendship. take for example mylot friends. some friends in my list progressed to exchanging PMs then exchanging emails or chatting via ym. a few of them progressed to exchanging mobile numbers. and one of them i've met several times over the last 6 months. these days, i get to communicate more often with online friends. most of my offline friends are in different countries now or in different regions in the country. sometimes it's more difficult to get hold of them, unlike my online friends who are just a chat message away. hehehe

I think I have more friends in the virtual world than I have in the real world. Reason being I spend more time in the virtual world. The only difference between my virtual friends and real friends is that I tend to associate myself with friends that are of the same age as me while the friends I have online are ageless. They can be anywhere from 18 - 80 years old. I don't know how to be choosy when it comes to the virtual friendship. Anyone who request to be my friend is accepted.

Well, I am always excluding your last statement Sunny, for I come here not for referrals... I am not thinking much of it... I am here for a good discussion and fun... yet this goal would never juts stop here... in the process of interacting so many personalities here in this virtual world... there are few that would caught your interest, and it would be the beginning of the so-called friendship... In my almost 3 months here, I found few friends already. And to tell you, I am the kind of person who has a tender heart, I would easily trust somebody. Well, you are right---never trust anyone idea can prevent us for from some kind of frustration in the end... yet, I guess that could hinder me from making lots of friends... I guess everybody here has the chance to be my friends if they wishes too... friendship indeed is like putting up a business---you have to always expect for risk... I am always believing on the statement, 'do not judge by the book on it's cover' or unless you have gone to every pages of that book, you can freely say "I do not like that book, it's quiet boring'. So How Different Are Online and Offline Friends For me?---no difference at all. Like you they are equally treated for the fact that I need them for their inside, not for the mere physical presence... Good day dude...

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Most of my friends are online, I only have one friend in RL.

I am little disappointed with friends as making them is easy,but no proper responses from them. Some reply but are very very brief - and some do not correspond at all. This is what I am facing. I came across just one or two from abroad who are very friendly and broadminded. They guide me in many aspects. I like this relationship. It is with them I have learnt so many new things. This should be a friends nature. Excuse me friends if I have told any wrong.

i dont have as many as i used to, but i think they are totally different. i think i'd feel totally awkward if i ever met someone from online because it just isnt the same

Other than location and with some of my online friends, the fact that we've not met yet, there really ISNT any difference....My friends are my friends regardless of where they are/I am location wise or whether or not we've actually met etc..

hello sunny, my online & offline friends are both special to me in heir own ways. i can say that there's not much difference but not really. there are still things that my close offline friends knows...things that they know because they have been spending time with me in real, and there are somethings that we do that our online friends don't know... well atleast in my case, i don't really share everything about me here, although i respond base on my life experiences and base on what i really feels but still there are somethings in real life or offline life that i do that online friends cannot see, people here just knows us base on what we are writing but offline friends knows us in a different way as well. but as to treatment i guess, friends are friends, whether on or offline. and again they are special in their own way... but i still wanted to meet my online friends in real...so that our friendship will even go farther...

yes there are huge different when we talk or think about our online or offline friend. i think we have just try to modified the definition of friendship. i think a friend is a person who is with you and support you, and there is no distinguishment about that whether he is online or offline. even on online friend we dont have enough trust so what kind of friendship this is. so i think there are any person who supports and think well for us is the friend there is no discrimination in online or offline friend.

For me offline friends are those who could be there for you anytime. And in personal manners as well not like on line friends that you didn't knew personally. For me i treasure my offline friends a little much than my offline friends...

Honestly theres a big difference for me. First online friends are not necessarily the kind of friends that i go out to most of the time. There are times that i have meet friends online but we dont meet in person at all. For me meeting in person is pretty much important , thats the way we bond together as friends. And there are online friends that add me up just because of games online or we just have a common friend of something ;)

for me they are quiet different