i want to meet friends... online do you?
By chiyochan
@chiyosan (30184)
Philippines
October 12, 2011 8:59pm CST
Have you all somehow thought, well i would like to meet new friends online and just have online buddies youcan always talk to, and always share your thoughts with... someone who is like a bestfriend, only they are not to judge you because they do not know your "whole" you... and that whnever you tell them things about yourself, like say a problem.. they will only share with you opinions relating it to the current situation and nothing else (in the past)...
Do you think having online friends are like this? Or it is better to have friends at work (which i think is not 100% good), or friends you had in school.. etc...
So where do we find true friends?!
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13 responses
@sanofer (525)
• India
13 Oct 11
my policy is 'it is better to have known devil as as a friend rather than trying to have an unknown angel as a friend'. We cul know something about our known friends in our circle who are visible and we know their original character. But it is not easy to identify a true friend online by chatting. In virtual world everything is fancy and we cannot analyse a person's true character. So we can have online friends by maintaining some distance with them. Because they will share only good parts about them and we abou see what is bad with them.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
thnak you for your response... maybe that is correct... well i do not really intend to divulge everything, its just sometimes people who don't know you, and people you do not know that much.... you are able to tell them things because you know that you are not to see them around anyway... whereas with our friends.. sometimes its hard to tell them everything because we feel they do not accept us as who we are, they expect us to be strong, to be this person.. etc.
@GraceChen03 (73)
• China
13 Oct 11
aothough friends on line sometimes simme very kind to us , i still sthingk friends we make at schlool are the vest friends.
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
13 Oct 11
Hi chiyo!
For me online or offline friends there are good and bad in their own ways. I can't compare people I know in my daily life with people I know online and vice versa. There are benefits and disadvantage in both of them but at the end it will fall to the same thing-friends. About meeting the online friends if I have that chance it will be good but for now I think it is better for us to just meet online only. I would say that it is not possible to know people very well without knowing their face and it is not possible to know that people are being fake in offline life either~(^^)
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
thank you for your response to my topic. i believe we have a lot of things to discover even on our friends that we meet daily. i mean its not that enough toknow a person online.. and not even in real life. the thing is they seem more real meeting them face to face than talking to them in chatrooms. hehe
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@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
14 Oct 11
haha..I know that. It looks like we trust them more than people we meet online. It does not matter for me.Sometimes we could know people well base from their writing- this are for those who likes to talk at the back and I am very sure most of us did. While when we meet them offline they seems good kind of friend. Are we really can trust them?? I can't give an exact answer...(^^)
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
13 Oct 11
Hmmm I also want to meet my all online mylotters friend so I was arranged the mylot picnic but the sad thing is we cant meet face to face. Our true friends is only God no in real life good friends is all but true friend is only God.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
oh, yes.. i think what you said is right. we would find true friendship in people very rarely.. its like everyone is kind of doing their things on their own, busy chasing after their dreansm etc, you are right... Only God is there to be with us... all the time, every time.
@shingshing (119)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
True friends are like diamonds, they are rare. It's not always easy to find one whether in real life or personal and/or online. But you are right, sometimes or most of the times, it's always easy and more comfortable if your friend is only online but for me, it's better to have friends both online and in person. Sometimes, you still need a tap on your shoulder and a shoulder to lean or cry on and that can only comes from a friend at your work or at your community. It's really depends on the person. :)
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
well yes, maybe i am thinking this way because i did not get too lucky about finding a good friend in real life. i have had better experience with online people... at least based on the last time i have had time to chat with online friends.
i sure hope that i would be able to find true friends. i feel i am always ready to be a friend to someone, but it seems most people i know are just too busy to notice that i am ready to be friends.
@danygirl7710 (24)
• Australia
13 Oct 11
I'm pretty impressed with your point of view. It is definately good to have some people in your life that can just give you a point of view without getting bogged down in history. That is why online friends are good. I have alot of them on facebook and I love to read what they are up to whithout needing to know them well. However true friends I think are people you can interact with and support you and even love you. Work friends can be good but when there are conflicts at work it can get messy. I met my husband on facebook and he is my best friend, but it took getting to know him in person to create a close relationship.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
14 Oct 11
in any which way, there are good and there are bad friends. and how can you assess one person if you have not mingled with them for a long time. it's the same way with relationship, with marriage too.
@junmae (1586)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
I had an online buddy whom became one of my closest friend. I told her one of my biggest problem because I cannot open it with my friends in the office and most of friends are too busy to listen to me. She was always there to talk with me and gave me beautiful reasons to live with. She is very positive. I know it is hard to find a good friends especially online and I am just thankful that I found her.
@kittysmile (88)
• China
13 Oct 11
i think it's not about where to find true friends, but to find whom. it's just something really matter to feelings and timing. actually, i will meet one of my net friends face to face this sunday. we just have so much in commom and want to know each other better. i think it's better to have friends at school than at work, because people have more comflicts at the latter situation. just find someone really fit you no matter the way you using.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
I guess, i have just ran out of options. my work friends are not very close to me... they too have lives to live and well most of the time we would just eat together but never spend time chatting...
my friends at school, i hardly talk to them anymore... i guess i am not lucky when it comes to finding friends.
I remember i had an online friend before... he was really a nice person and we always had time to chat and talk about our lives via email and its refreshing to know you have got friends who spend time and tell you things... even if its online...
@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
With cyber technology,friendship now have two face, the virtual and real-life friends. I feel I am still devoted to my real-life friends as they're tangible and I can really cling on them unlike virtual friends whom i can only make a few chat and contact only through the net. Don't get confused about these two kinds of friends, one can be made true friends in your own doing.
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
13 Oct 11
hi chiyosan i can say that having friends on online is good also i have many friends here in online and i can say that they are much more good and better friends rather than the friends that i see them i mean they are with me , because as a student i believe that you can have many friends but in that you still can't lok for a real best friend.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
hi there... its good that you have a lot of friends online. treasure and keep them. i have friends online too but have lost contact on few of them =( it saddens me sometimes and i miss them because one even sends me postcard here at home which is really great...
@jdex_143 (1093)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
Hi,.. Same here.. I want to meet new friends as well. I'm in a new city right now and I don't have so much friends here. I go out alone. Sometimes with my boyfriend. I haven't go out with any of my friends yet. I have no one to talk to. That's why I just keep myself busy with mylot. In here, I enjoy even if I am not able to talk to a real friend. I am happy that I could express myself here. 
