Online of offline friends?
By gr8life
@gr8life (6251)
Malaysia
September 5, 2007 2:24am CST
Hi friends,
Which do you think are easier to deal with? Your online or offline friends? Sometimes, we feel so close to our online friends though we never met them, not even once. It is easier to have a friendly conversation with our online friends. Nobody really knows what kind of person you are, unless you decided to tell all and from the very beginning, you decide to tell the truth about your personal life to someone that you never met before. Honestly, some people I met online especially from the chat room aren't acting as their usual selves. They pretend to be as good as you could imagine they are. That is normal. I, for example, am not going to tell the anything about myself to a stranger online.
At least, I am glad that most of my friends here on My Lot are reliable people and can be trusted*smiles* Of course, I don't know for sure but I just feel happy that they are nice to me so far. I really want to have a good friendship with all my online friends and hope it will last longer even if it is not forever.
What do you think of your online friends? Do you think they are telling you the truth about themselves or they pretend to be someone else? You never know right?
Share your thoughts with me ...
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7 responses
@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
8 Apr 09
Online friends is easier to meet them than offline so being online people can give instant messages that is good for everyone but offline we need to expect mails and messages after certain time.
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@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
8 Apr 09
Hello Dasari100,
I think right now, I have more online friends rather than offline friends. It seems that I keep in touch with my online friends more often than my offline. The ones that I met here, are very special and wonderful people. I am glad to be here in myLot. Thanks for digging my old discussions. I do appreciate that.
@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
8 Apr 09
When you start online work in the initial stage you can have some problems but after that, you won't get any problems so you have good friends now.
@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
5 Sep 07
It doesn't matter to me as long as I have a good impression on that friend. Online friends can be trustworthy while offline friends can be deceiving sometimes. It really depends on how much we know the people we are dealing with. I like both my online and offline friends and I think they are both important to me in different ways. Well I must say that very much of my hard times, my online friends were there for me and I appreciate the friendships more.
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@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 07
Hello wondericequeen,
I agree with you. Not all our offline friends are trustworthy and not all our online friends are bad people. I have a habit to tell my online friends what kind of person I am, what they can expect from me but never to tell them about my personal life too much. As long as I think it can be shared, I will share with my online friends. I don't reveal too much to my offline friends too. I think I talk a lot online rather than offline *laughs*
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@wondericequeen (7876)
• Hong Kong
5 Sep 07
Right! I think sometimes I talk to my online friends more too *laughs*.
@blueinferno2001 (100)
• Indonesia
7 Sep 07
i myself deal with my online and offline friends the same way. i don't pretend to be not who i am coz that's not comfortable for me. it doesn't mean that i'm not trying to be a good person, i just be a good person with the way i am, not with the way people expect me to.
maybe it's true that most of online friends only have their good sides exposed, but i don't mind if i found out that one of my friends online turn out to be not as good as they looked online..
some people also make better relationship online because they are better at expressing their mind by writing instead of talking. i think that's why online communities are so crowded!
i don't think too much if they're only pretending or not. my responses are mostly the same
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@coro_zilla (59)
• Indonesia
5 Sep 07
Hi gr8life, for me, dealing with online people is a lot easier. We don't know their background or the way they look, we don't even know whether they lie or honest to us. We do the same too,we lie to them sometime, that's what makes us feel comfort talking to each other even what we're telling them is our biggest secret.We don't expect them to believe us when we say "I just robbed a bank and a want to give you a share" lol. Online friends are easier too forget. The offline friends? it's hard to get rid of them once they stabbed you in the back.
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@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 07
Hello coro_zilla,
Right, I agree with you. I always try to be my usual self whenever I am online but I won't reveal too much secret of my personal life. After a few conversations, I will 'grade' my online friends whether they can be trusted or not. If I think that they are good people, I will continue the friendship. But then again, nobody knows anybody here for sure *smiles*
@TheGreatMaster (261)
• Romania
5 Sep 07
Hi. Sure is easy to deal with online friends. I almost never talk about real life online and I think this is a good thing. Yes, like in real life, you could meet very good and very nice people, or some crazy kids that annoy you every minute. The problem is that on the Internet you could lie a lot, you could pretend that you are Mohmamed, no one can verify this, lol... Anyhow, the real friends this is the most important thing. The offline friends count less for me, even I have some real friends online. When you are talking face to face, that's the real talking, because you see the person and you can interract with him.
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@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
5 Sep 07
Hello TheGreatMaster,
Yes, you are right. When you get to see with whom you are talking to, that should make you feel better rather than having a conversation online with someone that you know nothing. But sometimes, I do find good people online and wish that they can be my real life friends *smiles*
@ketybhagat (4123)
• India
6 Sep 07
When one is online, one can pretend to be good. But the other point is that they can be truthful too since they do not know the others and have to qualms about opening up their problems for help or in turn helping others who have had problems. I believe my lot friends are honest enuogh and give real good advise when needed. They are the ones you can rely on to give good advise or to tell you off when you are wrong.
