Friends: IRL vs Internet

[vashthestampede0987]

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Internet friends are not always what they seem irl

Rofl, sup Jimmy. Have fun getting raped by Laney and Bodel.

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Either way, a friend is a friend, but I tend to consider my irl friends to be more imortant than my friends on the Internet.

I'd admit that online people are often more interesting than those in real life, but at the same time, you can be anyone online. A lot of the times, how a person is online, is a lot different from how they are in real life. You're also missing the whole face to face thing and a whole other level of interaction with the person that you can't have unless you're right next to each other.

Haha. And the whole internet boyfriend/girlfriend thing...
No.

[JurseyRider734]

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I only have a few internet friends that I ever considered "close". Lupin, Alain, and Hans. That's because I would talk to them on the phone a lot at some times. Lupin used to be my best friend. We knew eachother better than our families or friends knew us. We don't really talk anymore and he doesn't really go online, so we kind of drifted apart. Someday maybe i'll meet him irl and we can be friends again. I still sometimes talk to Hans and Alain but not as much.

I don't know. I sometimes like my internet friends more than my IRL friends because I feel like I can talk with them better about things than my IRL friends. Most of my online friends are guys (actually like all of them), and most of my irl ones are girls, besides a few gay ones. I mean I have guy friends, I just don't hang out with them a lot and stuff. My online friends are smarter than most of my irl friends, too. I like to complain about my problems to buttfly a lot. He usually tries to help. (unlike lupin or hans would), so I rely on assfly to help me with venting or problems. Both are important to me, but I see my irl friends more so yeah. I keep irl and internet very separate.

[TIkimanJr]

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Rofl, sup Jimmy. Have fun getting raped by Laney and Bodel.

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[Mindfields]

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Me and falconsfan are big internet friends. Ever since we met we've been playing the same online games together. Conquer Online, GunZ, and a few others. Online games are boring to play alone without friends. So I call us gaming buddies.
The other type of friend is some one you just talk to alot over AIM and MSN alot. For me, most of these are girls (not the ones that fall over themselves whenever you show them a picture of yourself and that kind of stuff). I can ask them stuff that I wouldn't ask some one IRL because I'm not scared of losing them as a friend. Anonymity=Confidence.

IRL friends are people you hang out with, talk on the phone with, eat lunch at school with, go places with, etc. Just some one to keep you company when you're not wasting away at your computer.

[JurseyRider734]

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My friends think it's funny when I tell them I have online friends. It's kind of embarassing. I just think it's weird telling them that FFR is a big part of my life.

[Thassodar]

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I find online friends to be more on-task than regular friends. Maybe that's because I live in Montana.

What is a Montana?

But seriously I don't have many friends online because I will probably never see or meet them in person. I do have many aquaintances in the FFR chat room though, a few of them I would consider friends. More than half of my friends on my AIM buddy list are people I know in real life.

[Mindfields]

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[iBreakDanceNotHearts]

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FFR IS my life. Lmao.

[hydrojakep]

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A friend is a friend is a friend is a friend, no matter if you are 5 minutes away, or 5,000 miles away.

What I don't understand is why some people act all big and strong over the internet, threatening to kill someone they will never meet. =S

You can do this to people on the internet, because you know nothing bad can come of it. Do that to someone in real life and you're going to jail.

Internet friends are not always what they seem irl

exactly.


People on the internet act different than in real life. In real life you probably wouldnt know i was me. Everyone assumes everyone on ffr is a nerd who you can point out from pictures, but that's not true. Friends on the internet drift apart as jurs said, and it has happened a lot. For some reason, someone will stop getting online for a period of time, in the mean time you make fun of them behind their back, then they come back and you realise that when they were being made fun of in the chat room, they were right. It's all just text. IRL friends are there for you. You'll remember IRL friends in ten years, i doubt i'll remember LD when i quit FFR. LD's a great example of this drifting thing. Although i never talked about him behind his back, we havent had an actual conversation (well as far as you get on the internet) in a long time.


People act different on the internet than real life. Usually people are more outgoing on the internet (i've had that happen with girls from my school, they'd be all flirty but completely avoid me in real life (no i didnt go out with them)).

I'm not saying internet friends arent important. They're still there for you and they're cool people irl, but it's all just text. You need IRL friends more.


This being said you can talk to your IRL friends over the internet, and if they're good at internets, then that's awesome. You get the best of both worlds.

[jujo07]

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For me it all depends. IRL friends are awesome in their own ways. They accept you for who you are, at least in my experiences. When I was 13, I met a person who was 17 at the time. He and I grew to be really close friends, but he never asked my age, he just assumed. He never would have guessed I was 13 until I told him, and even then he still doubted me. Real life people that are 4 years older than you normally wouldn't go up to you and talk to you.

I'm also friends with a few people from FFR and 1 of them I talk almost every other day with. I can honestly say that I will remember him and always try and keep in touch with him for a long time to come. I know I can say the same about my real life friends too, but it will be harder to do so because most of them don't use the computer too often. Where as Internet friends kind of already have the dedication of being your friend, and know what it takes.

[dunlop]

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I don't really consider an internet friend my "friend". The fact that I don't really even know what the person looks like makes it tough. I do however know what most of the people look like, but then you still have the problem with never actually meeting them. You don't really get to see how they act in many situations, and a lot of the time, they will probably act a little differently. It's just not the same thing. If someone over the internet is having a problem, you can only do so much. You're limited only interacting throught the internet.

I think that if I could meet my internet friends, just for one afternoon, I could then consider them a friend. But until then, it's still just an internet friend.

I do think that it would be cool to meet some of the people I talk to from the internet.

[hydrojakep]

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I don't really consider an internet friend my "friend". The fact that I don't really even know what the person looks like makes it tough. I do however know what most of the people look like, but then you still have the problem with never actually meeting them. You don't really get to see how they act in many situations, and a lot of the time, they will probably act a little differently. It's just not the same thing. If someone over the internet is having a problem, you can only do so much. You're limited only interacting throught the internet.

I think that if I could meet my internet friends, just for one afternoon, I could then consider them a friend. But until then, it's still just an internet friend.

I do think that it would be cool to meet some of the people I talk to from the internet.

They're different IRL.

Believe me.

[ducky285]

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I don't really have internet friends. I never really saw the point of developing relationships with people over the computer. I rarely talk to people online that I don't know personally.

I mostly use the internet to relieve boredom and keep in touch with my real friends, such as the ones I made in Boston during the two years I lived there before I moved back home.

[dunlop]

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They're different IRL.

Believe me.

There's really only 3 that I talk to regularly, and would actually like to meet. I'm sure they will be a little different, and I'm sure I'll be a little different as well. I'm expecting that to happen though.

The other people that I don't really talk to that much, I'm sure would be different, but I wouldn't want to meet them anyways.