do you believe in online friendships?

i am also a girl and i understands that there are limitations for a girl but i think its good having online friends i got 4 or 5 of my good friends through net they are so caring the most important thing for which a human being is searching is a nice natured person and if u are getting it onlin how can u avoid them the best advantage which i got last days tht i had to prepare a report on pepsi and i dont have the information i told this to one of my net frnd and he helped me a lot as my contacts are increasing my social circle is increasing its not rite to accept all of them first chat wid them and if u find tht they are good ten add them in ur frnd list

I don't know yet how the system on mylot works. I can see where someone wants to be a friend and I accept everyone, but I have no idea how to ask people if they would like to be a friend. Have not figured that out yet.

Yes, I believe in online friends. I've made some very good and interesting friends here and in other programmes, such as Pogo Games. Some of my online friends, I've had for 6 years, and I've got to know them very well. A few, I've met and they are everything they seemed online. You do have to be very careful though in your selection of friends, for there are a few out there who pretend to be something they're not, even to the extent of using other people's pics to portray themselves as better looking. I can't understand the mentality in this, and actually abhor it. My friends, however, are very carefully selected and I know I can trust them at all times. I wouldn't make friends with anybody I was unsure of or whom I thought was purporting to be somebody else. I just need trust in my relationships, so I'm careful. Brightest Blessings.

I do because I am a home maker and get lonely while my hubby is at work. I chat with people via email. I get a lot of help from my online friends, so they are good to have.

I believe in online friendships because I have found some friends online. I met them through an egroup when we were all planning for our wedding. This was the common ground which fostered our friendship. Now, more than 2 years after our weddings, we still keep in touch and go out for dinner whenever we find the time. However, I also believe that you have to be careful about finding friends online. It's really hard to tell about people's intentions especially when they are protected by anonymity.

I do believe in online friends.

I don't believe in online relationships as well. They are still strangers to each other. They don't share many things in personal that makes the relationship work well.

okay i believe there are another different definition of online friendship. which is not something like hi5 or urkut friends or even mylot friends. im a member of hi5 since its birth and have around 50+ friends. but very few of them are you can say my friends. these online communities are like: every budy rushing up and having a profile setup for them selves...searching for girls or girls are searching for boys but nobody is talking to each other besides the friends you already know in your real life. however mylot is kinda same and i really dont believe friends from here. to my definition of friend is someone who i know for at least 3 months or for a few weeks may be, but a friend is someone who i really know. i met around 30+ friends online and all of them were good enough. i met them online chat rooms following by loads of emails, tons of online conversations, tons of times hanging out with each other. and finally very good friends. i still have 5 friends abroad who are my best net friends...they are my friends for around 4+ years now and still i talk to them every time we come online. besides not seeing them real life we have everything friends can have. we share each other's pictures . all i dream of ill someday go and have a visit to them and spend some time with the friends i have never seen before in real life. one of them is from your country. she was born in london but her grandpa lives in kerala and every year she visits them. she is the most wonderful romantic girl i ever met. the only thing she feels sorry for is she cant speak hindi. she taught me meny stuffs like love and friendship, trust, english, slang lol. and i taught her how to fix the computer.once she had a problem and i asked her to tell me about the hard disk, ram, processor of her computer...and do you know what did she reply me? she said i think my computer is ram! lolz... we still laugh a lot wen we remember it. she had a crush on a boy of her class and she felt so depressed about not being with him while she told me about her crush she was crying and i couldnt help it but i had to listen to her...and i was wondering if i could do anything for her... accidentally i met the boy on msn chat room the following day and i suddenly figured out he also has a crush on my friend! i arranged a date for them and after their date she told me they had nothing else to talk about beside talking about me! lol. isnt it sweet? i really wish to see her for at least once in my life...

well i do believe in online friendhip.... I understand, the world today is not very fit for belief or trust but then at the same time I think, the world is actually survivign till date, becasue some or the other where this trust still exists....of people in people....had this mutual trust vanished, definitely, the world too would have vanished sooner or later....,. So i guess u gotta believe some unknown ppl, at so many turns of ur life....so what do I actually belive is that you can definitely make newer friends ,,,, and for sure, your being a girl is definitely not gonna make it any hindered...now when u take the friendship ahead, make sure certain things.... is the person u in contact with genuine...what is the time since you've been in association with him? HAve you actually been able to figure him out...what kinda person he is....and would u be able to stand with him,.... if majority of the questions here nd similar other questions give u a favoruable answer....definitely it is not gonna matter much!!! and u wud be happier to make new frnds for sure

I personally didn't get many online friends who really think highly of online friendship yet I expect and invite many to be my friends. Of course, not every one will be worthy of friendship but 'searches can start a light'. I belielve in friendship without any border till the communications are of some meaning and gives the enjoyment needed from friendly conversation.

yes, even if we don't share much details i believe friendship still can exist in an online environment. Sharing ideas, giving comments, suggestions, talking about problems, joys and everything about life is the start of friendship. We may not be able to give all details but this friendship will continue to grow, depends on how we are treating each other.

I think the trend to meet some persons online is reaching new heights...as u ve written urself nadia that u have around 200 frens,all cant be trusted... I only have 3 friends here...maybe because i use mylot less often than other people but it would be nice to speak some things with a total stranger rather than to a known person...

i am as skeptical as u did naadia. i never been introduced to meet new friends thru online, until when i was in university where i start to find 1. since then my online friends keep on growing. then, i discover something that i never believe before. i can trust them!!! so how trust can be developed back then? for me, u can understand someone by the way they talking to you. u somehow can identify their sincerity (of cos not all) thru consistent style of conversation. be my amaze, i met my wife thru online olso!!but of cos after rigid & long time knowing her cheers

i do believe in online friendship only if it remains to b as an online frienship ,if anybody asks for my cell no.or my address(this is my advice to u all from my past expeiences)refuse him/her ,as u cant say how the person in nature or what is the mentality of the person ,so online friendship is good ...but to a limit otherwise it can create a problem to u

i have heard of this article in Seventeen about this girl who lives in New Jersey or something like that and she saw this guy on myspace and thought he looked cute and she talked to him and they started to talk more and more. problem was he lived across the atlantic oceans somewhere in the middle east.....they ended up liking eac hother and seeing each other because she went across the ocean without telling her parents now they want to get married.(weird.) so i guess you can be friends with people online

i think for boys its ok to share their personal details and to make online friends but for girls there are some problems.orkut is not at all safe for girls specially you shouldnot post your pictures there,infact donot post your pictures in any site.there is no harm to talk with anybody online as long as he/she dint want to know your personal details.mylot is completely safe to make friends as it dint ask for personal details.

i have met ppl online (not in person) and they are really good ppl, really easy to tawk to, i dont give out my id to ne one unless i feel confertable givin it out, i havnt give it to ne one on mylot, i love it on here, but not enuf to give out my id!

I don't know orkut, and so I can't say anything about it, but as myLot community concerns, I can speak only well about it. I have some friends here, above all strange ones, so I can improve my bad English. It would be interesting to understand what do you mean with the verb "believe". This is a virtual community, but our thoughts, our feelings, our sentiments are real, so, what not to believe in online friends?

I do believe in online friendships, here I can't say that I've friends but I know a lot of people that mean a lot to me, here on internet. They help me and sometimes we're always talking about personal stuff, sometimes not. We just don't need to. Of course that some of them are more my friends than others.

Somehow the thought of not knowing someone and sharing personal talk doesnot apeal to me at all. I have professional online acquaintances, for example I am a part of a professional group relating to my area of studies and we exchange solutions to problems at work, but I wouldnt call them friends. I believe in pre-existent friendships that can be nourished online but not in Online friendships literally.