True Online Friends...
By SandeeE
@SandeeE (346)
United States
November 22, 2011 8:00pm CST
I have been into social networks for many years. I must admit that dating men that I've met online has NOT worked & was really, really bad. BUT, I must say that I've met some amazing men & woman that are just friends. I have many business associates also that I adore and whom mentor me and I look up too.
How many online friends have you made over the years and value them as if they were someone you've know'n your whole life, even when you've never really met them in person?
4 responses
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
24 Nov 11
I set very high standards for myself & other's so find it hard to keep friends. Lately I have trouble making friends just not wanting to let anyone in my private world for some reason. Taking a break from the world for now I guess you could say. But I do find that I make these friends and expect so much out of them that of course they are going to fail in something and let me down. But I can't accept it and want to end the friendship when really I shouldnt. I need to be more accepting of everyone but at the same time I don't have to keep trying to trust someone that continues to let me down.
I am on Blogger but have not met anyone? How is it that you are meeting people?
@prospectboy (754)
• United States
14 Dec 11
I've met several people online that I value greatly. Some that I talk to on the phone on a regular basis, and I've had a few that I've met in person also. For me it's all about how I can relate to someone and whether or not I can talk to them about certain things on different levels. That's more important to me than meeting them face to face.
@beamer88 (4259)
• Philippines
23 Nov 11
I haven't tried dating someone whom I've met online. I guess I lack the guts to do so :) But I have a couple of friends online and it's really fun talking with them. Haven't met them though in person but I totally agree with you that you can have this feeling that you've known that person a very long time.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
23 Nov 11
Ya dating online has worked out for so many.
For me dating online is a way to be sucked into someone lie of who they really are NOT! Ya know. I always pick the one's that have secrets, that lie about so much in thier life online, or like to have many woman at once and play all of us. You name it I've found it. I even found one that lied about being a felon and in a halfway house. I already cared about him when I found out so I was acceptive of it where as I would have never been acceptive of it before. I just do not recommend dealing with dating online these days unless you go through a service where they pre-screen the people they match up. Even those you have to be careful with but really do your research and you'd find some perty good ones out there.
@imcath03 (79)
• Philippines
13 Dec 11
I agree with this. I'm surprised that i ca find real friends through the internet. At first it is hard to trust them fully .And you have doubt if what she says is true or not. But i am so gald that i have met so many friends online and i think i am blessed. I now consider them real friends. And my friend helps me alot in so many ways. I am grateful that i met them. We already see each other , i hope i can bond with them soon.
@SandeeE (346)
• United States
14 Dec 11
Yes it's hard to trust everyone forsure, and best not to when it's online. You have no idea what's really going on behind the words a person types or the picture that is up. Its a scary world out there and online preditors of any kind are there and we do need to be safe. But in the end there are many people just like us out there and I enjoy when out of many I can find the one online friend's that are honest true people.
