The Relationships We Have with Online Friends ...

I think most of my relationships online are real. Of course I am not in the market for romance. I have even met a few of my online friends in person.

Hello my friend gtargirl Ji, Well, I consider as mere a fake and illusion feelings and relationship.People get cheated without thier fault. It is very dangerous for teen-agers. We all go as per profile and information available added with personal conversation among members. It is far away from reality and one must be careful. May God bless You and have a great time

I feel they are mostly real the ones that are not, I quickly find out about and ditch them. I met my boyfriend of 13 years online.

I have had both positive and negative experiences with online friendships. I have met some people who were fake and hid a lot of things from their offline lives, but I have also had some really positive experiences. Two of my online friends have become my close friends in real life. The meeting with one of those friends was especially memorable, we got along incredibly well and we talked 4 or 5 hours on our first meeting. At the moment I have 3 online friends from my own country that I have never met. I think that they are real, and I have been in touch with them many years.

I have met many people online. I know they are real because I have personally skyped with them or seen them in Youtube videos. I believe anyone should be careful on the internet but if you can skype with the person before really meeting them that's a great way to know they are real.

Building relationships with people online can be very interesting. Compared to face-to-face, offline relationships, online relationships are generally anonymous unless you volunteer giving out personal information about yourself. In the past, I did have some online friends from various online forums. For the most part, the relationship with online friends helped me gain information about various topics. I did not look for online friends for love. When you develop online relationships on online video games like World of Warcraft, it gets even more confusing. I have read reports about gamers falling in love with other people's avatars, which seems somewhat strange to me. Anyway, being anonymous can often create false identities about people. In gaming, there's a lot of cross-gender identities, which means there are people who create female avatars when they are actually guys in real life and vice-versa. Basically, with developing online relationships, you need to be very careful about who you befriend and not become too attached.

Oh wow! That's just crazy! And illegal. It's a same a person can stoop so low as to do that to another person..what would someone find appealing in crushing someone like that. It's deranged. Now you have me guessing who is real or not on my friends list..it's no different in my book then those people who prey on young kids. It's just not right.

I am me, and there is only one of me. I am honest with everyone I talk to, and don't try to embellish or hide anything. I don't understand what people are trying to gain by being dishonest.

I dont have one like that I am in my coffee crew and a freinds fan club and my neices and nephews who never ardly even come on

I have severe depression with panic attacks. I have gotten to a point where about my only social interaction is online. I also have some agoraphobia tendencies too. I have been hurt by several men online and I just don't go there anymore. One guy I really thought was the one and he and I had chatted, talked on the phone and gotten to a point where the next step was to meet. He began to hedge and started to back away. At one point he was saying he was broke and we couldn't meet for awhile because of this. I set up a fake profile on the social networking site we had met on and sure enough...he made immediate plans to travel to meet. Yes, when he had just told me he couldn't afford it. As the fake gal I gave him my number(the same one he had been using for months to call me with)so we could discuss our meeting. So he calls, it rings, I let it ring several times. Finally I pick up the phone, and when I said 'hello' there was this pause and then he hung up. I loved it and I feel he had it coming. He was liar and I doubt that he ever was going to really meet me. I think it takes all kinds and you really have to keep your heart in your pocket and be very careful. As far as friends I have some great ones online and I appreciate them very much. I think I may have seen that movie but I don't recall the title being that. Not sure.

As for me, we should not be playing with others emotions in any way. Aside from facebook, which I consider as my communication line with my family and friends, my online accounts are mostly about online works.