Virtual versus real ...?

no doubt i would obviously prefer going for a roaming & chatting with a live friends other than chatting & sitting in front of computer with my online friends. I would go with 2nd option there is no doubt. If i had the choice of either spending the time chatting and roaming with my real live friends or to sit in front of a computer monitor with my online friends. Definately i would choose the first option which is to go with my real live friends. Coming back to the real topic, that in today's web world, lots of people feel comfirtable talking & chatting with online friends. But i personally prefer chatting , roaming & having a nice time with real live friends. cause they are true friends. isn't it? well we are all society animals we need people to live life, & i am talking about real living people.

I think it depends on the activity. Some activities just can't be done online... imagine this: totalearnings, let's go shopping at ebay now. Together! How exciting would that sound? :P Even for chatting, online chat is still largely text only. Offline chat would allow us to communicate with our voices and facial expressions. So maybe, that would be a more wholesome experience. Seems that online is quite bad, eh? :P

Well both have their own importance. Considering todays techno savvy world, importance of online friends has grown equally. When we call someone friend, we mean it..we expect to know about them and their likes and dislikes and spend time with them. Today technology has made it possible that without meeting each other, we can still be very close emotionally. I had some friends with whom friendship went ahead a long way. But still online chatting and making friends has its own disadvantage. Friends we make in real lives carry with us longer. We are in physical contact with them. We can meet them and share problems as well as get a response from them at the same moment. Online frindship is more dependent on availability of computers and mobiles, without them we are helpless. Friends in real lives are those who live around us and are easily available.

I will do both. Most of my real life friends have computers anyway so I can email them and never lose contact. I don't have many friends but they are not one who talk behind my back or force me to be nice when they are not nice themselves, so they are worth my time and effort. Whoever I have on my friend's list will stay that way until the day they decide not to be. I believe true friends are true friends, offline or online.

If it is just chatting, online friends seems a better bet. We can chat anything under the sky and should there be any unfortunate misunderstanding, it would be minimal as online chatting has no tone, which is one detrimental factor towards any verbal miscommuncation. Of course, if it is a real-talk, I would prefer real live friends, whom I have seen and known, and I am sure I am talking to a physical entity at any one time. With online friends, there is a possibility one person can assume multiple identities and it would be scary. Afterall, it's only online friends, available only when both are online at the same time.

in my opinion that the most comfortable to me is to stay with my real live friend as i can know them very well but on line frinds there is no real transmission between us

For me since I do not have too many real life friends here where I live, I prefer chatting online with my online friends. My online friends are actually more reliable and more dependable and more trustworthy then some of the people I know and have met here. My friends here on myLot and on my chat programs are easier to talk to and they listen better and give great advice and enjoy chatting with them. I wish I lived closer to them so I could meet and hang out with them in person.

Thats a no brainer. I would definitely want to spend time with my real life friends. They've known me all my life and i them. I would be more comfortable with them and nothing really beats the actual physical contact with a friend. Face to face is anydays better than a virtual chat.

i would prefer also real because in real-friends you can see or attest that they are your real friends, and you can trust them/..

I always welcome the opportunity to chat with online and offline friends. In the case of a deep personal issues, I can easily share it with my offline friends. They see me without my mask on and they can relate to my feelings well. With online friends, there are certain limitations about how much I can share. Luckily, I'm gifted with a very good instinct and I can read the online friend's characters and personalities. There may be some who can be pretentious and lying. I wish though that I have a few true online friends. But I will not force my friendship with any online friends if they did nothing but to cast me away. It happened to me a few times. :)

Same goes with me too, actually we trust real people more than the virtual ones, we know them and can see them that makes the difference. But virtual friends do have there own positive qualities, since you generally do not get to see the person, you completely depend on there personality which you can discover while talking t them. Also sharing any problem or doubt is easier with a person, to whom you will never see.

it depends,some of my real life friends have become online friends,because they've moved away.it's great to be able to keep in contact with them:)

I like both venues of communication. Nothing will ever beat the real life though. I use chat and MSN and the Internet to keep track of friends that we otherwise would've drifted apart after school. So many friends have moved away and we've all gotten busy with careers, life, kids, etc.... that the Net is amazing to still be able to talk to these people. However, the net is a little impersonal, and "tone" can be taken completely wrong on chat and MSN and email. Also you still talk but you lose that closeness of having a real life friendship, I think.

I prefer both, actually. I see my real live friends every day, at school, and at Church, and at night, I chat with my online friends. Both set offers me quite different outlooks in life. My real life friends mostly share the same views as I, and my online friends, gives me perspecive in quite new ways. The way I see it, it was because my real life friends mostly grew up with me, and are of the culture and beliefs. On the other hand, most of my online friends are from abroad. whilst it is good to see your real life friends and roam with them wherever you want, it is also good to have new friends from other places =)

I will do both. Most of my real life friends have computers anyway so I can email them and never lose contact. I don't have many friends but they are not one who talk behind my back or force me to be nice when they are not nice themselves, so they are worth my time and effort. Whoever I have on my friend's list will stay that way until the day they decide not to be. I believe true friends are true friends, offline or online.

I think anything that's real is much more preferable... but this will depend if im having such a good time chatting with my online buddies. This sort of happened to me before- in the early days of chatting where MIRC was the root of all chatting addiction... I was so addicted chatting online that my friends sort of got jealous with my online buddies. There came a time where i would prefer to rent in a computer shop to chat rather than go out with them to the mall. It was really bad, i almost lost my real life friends back then. But we all know that online buddies can be real life buddies as well- I used to have a close online friend which i met over chatting- we chatted like for 2 yrs, but she was in denmark that time- she was so excited to go back here in manila to meet with me- it took another 2 yrs before she finaly was able to go back here in the Philippines- then we met for the 1st time in 4 yrs... it was really kind of weird at first but it was really fun- unfortunately, we lost touch- anyway..generally- to sum it up, i now do prefer to be with real life friends... if i still have any.. lol...

I would prefer to chat with my friend face to face rather tahn chatting on line becasue I like to see their faces and body language whne they are talking, ican also hear their voices. I did notuse any webcams or voice messengers, so i can only type and chat, i do not like this feeling because it always lead to misunderstanding when chatting online.

give me the real thing any day. WE as a society have become so caught up in technology that were forgetting how to relate to eacg other face to face. its always "call me on my cell" or "ill meet you online". people no longer go to a good old fasioned bar to meet singles anymore...the go to websites (guitly of that one myself). its almost as if people are becomming more and more uncomfortable with person to person conversation.

I prefer chatting (online) with the people I haven't to for a long time.

While I do enjoy all my On line friends and think of them as close friends. I would have to say that my Real friends here in London are a source of knowledge and strength right when i need them. They know I would do anything for them just as I would expect them to help me when i needed it. I do have 1 friend whom i can call any time day/night and I know he'll be there for me and me for him. It is a great friendship