Will you do this for your friend?
By rockydam83
@rockydam83 (846)
Italy
October 6, 2010 5:35am CST
Hi friends,
Every one has friends in their life some are practical and real time friends and some are web based online friends whom mostly we dont meet in person. When our real friends around us falls in some trouble, financially or emotionally we always try to help them in both ways. My question is this will you consider your online friends for same kind of practical help which you share with your real ones or you just drop some email to soft words. have you ever help any of your online contacts in practical way?
as far as i am concerned i always try to help my friends {Both type of friends online and practical} as much as i can. I have never shared this to any one but sharing here that one of my online friend was looking for electronics items and they are quite cheep in my country so shipped the particular items for him from my country by paying shipping charges from my own pocket.
So i am always here for my friends. What about you guys?
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21 responses
@kodukodu84 (1569)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 10
I have to be honest but I only help friends in real life and who I can actually see they are in trouble, and I also can communicate with them face to face. The first time I learnt to not help an online friend is when I was 20. I used to chat with those people I call friend online, and one of this person started asking if I can get a phone for him because it is cheaper from my country. I said yes but only with his money. But he said he doesn't have money but he wanted phone. So he said he's hoping I could get that for him using my money. No way, I don't even know this person and I didn't know if the picture he showed to me was him for real. Then before I agreed or even say yes, he started sending me his postal address, and how do I know that was his own postal address too. I ignored him and he kept sending me an email asking if I have posted the phone for him over and over again for 1 month. No way, that was just using.
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@annavi23 (6522)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
hello kodu!
what happened to you is really unbelievable!
if i am also in your shoe,i would not trust anyone online and spend a phone just for him. i wasn't that rich enough to help financially anyway.
i think it's much better to help emotionally than financially,when it comes to online friends.do you agree?
what happened to you is really unbelievable!
if i am also in your shoe,i would not trust anyone online and spend a phone just for him. i wasn't that rich enough to help financially anyway.
i think it's much better to help emotionally than financially,when it comes to online friends.do you agree?@kodukodu84 (1569)
• Malaysia
6 Oct 10
Oh yes, of course I agree with you friend. The funny thing that time was I was also borrowing my elder brother's phone :D So how can I afford someone else a phone? :D I really am a person who don't have enough to spend everyday, even just to be able to eat thrice a day is a pain.
@annavi23 (6522)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
oh,that's the main problem.
how will you spend someone a phone when you yourself don't have any of your own?
that's really crazy! well,i think he knows what he's up to.
and it is really hard to trust anyone who you don't really know that much.
yeah,having three meals a day can be pain if you really are not that wealthy enough.
so,why bother to help financially when you can't afford,right?
people just have to understand that.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
Always trust the famous words of wrestling legend stone cold steve austin: 'don't trust anybody'. Anybody on the net at least. I'm not that trusting when it comes to people i know from the net. I just hope you're making the right decisions.
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@Ramaditya (1227)
• Indonesia
6 Oct 10
I think I am going to do that if I have already known those online friends of mine for very long time. I know that we must not think about anything while helping others, but I just want to be careful not to help the wrong guy.
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@durgabala (1360)
• India
6 Oct 10
No, I don't think I would go to the extent of posting some goods from my country to another. As of now I do not have any online friends as such. I will surely help my real friends and whom I know very well.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
I'd say i might not be able to do that... i have no online friends that i regularly talk with, i have no online friend that i share my life with, chat anything about with, and nope, since i have not build my trust on people 100%. i won't be able to help them in such a way...
@nayeem_siddiqui (44)
• India
6 Oct 10
Very good and I appreciate it very much as far as myself is considered I never a faced a situation like this before but if I have the same situation like U definitely I'll help my friends whether they are online or practical. Infact friends are friends there is no online or practical...
All the best Friend
@sjhaeki (795)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
Wah~ you're really such a nice, true friend! I wouldn't be able to do that though. To begin with, I've only have just one online friend that I've had communication with until now. Some... just lose the communication along the way, though it started good.
Somehow, all I can give now is emotional support and I try as much as I can to keep that friendship going on even if we would never really see each other and we don't communicate as much as the beginning. Since my friend doesn't really open up and since I cannot observe him for anything that may be troubling him, I just ask casually and see where it goes there.
@buddhis (58)
• China
7 Oct 10
i think i would help him out if we have kown each other for a long time.first,i will call him to ask about his situation.what does him really need?and he is in trouble indeed.i will send him my money.but the amount must be a small part to my finance.because i'm not rich and i will think there will be a problem if he ask me too much.
@etmahawanD (65)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
Not all friends are real., for me i dont trust anybody except my Lord. friends are fake, they are a traitor, somebody said that do not trust anybody because even your shadow leave you when you are in the darkness.sorry but this is me, and im saying this because it is base in experience.,
@ever_purple (522)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
honestly i will be hesitant to the same help that i do on my friends that i see personally to my online friends.. but you know in friendship i firmly believe there's should be no bounderies. for me just make sure that you check first his info in his profile and of course you will still feel the sincerity of the person if he really need the help in terms of finanacial help. but if just an advice for me i will still definitely give my sincere advice to my online friends the same thing i do on my friends i see and im with in my life...
@onlywan (182)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
Since I only have a few friends, I'll definitely help them out as long as it is not money related. It feels good when you have done something good to a friend. And maybe someday they would return the gesture but of course don't make this the purpose for helping them.
@onlywan (182)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
Since I only have a few friends, I'll definitely help them out as long as it is not money related. It feels good when you have done something good to a friend. And maybe someday they would return the gesture but of course don't make this the purpose for helping them.
@SimpleBB (1329)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
Hi rockydom.
Kindness is a virtue, but somehow, you should also consider some circumstances. Knowing you as a friend who's been always there in time of need is really awesome. You might always be commended by your friends for having such nice attitude. But those were the ones we getting along in personal. Though we also seeking and then found some online friends, we usually give advices and become friends through online stuff and some becomes true friends. That's probably can be considered. It depends on how long and how we've known to each other. And it is very seldom that an online friend ask for help which is financial related. Think about it friend. Happy mylotting.
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
6 Oct 10
Hey yes I have also doing some this kind of works for my friends. Because he was need money immediately. So I helped him from my pocket money. I transfer in their account 500 rupees because I was not able to helped more than 500 rupees. Because it was from my pocket money. And also then I was not in the jobs. But I was happy that I helped to my one friend who is really very far from me in a different city.
@jaijaye (168)
• Philippines
6 Oct 10
It depends on how long you know the person very well especially online friends. You make more careful with whom you trust with. In that way too I could help my friends what ever it is.:)
@Celica (369)
• Bulgaria
6 Oct 10
I have many online friends and i help them with problems, but i can not send them money for example, because i do not know what the realy person is. Someone can pretend to be your friend but the only reason can be money. There is swindler.
Good luck! Write email with proposal for problem, but not money if it come question about money.
