Friends

I think virtual friends come with very little expectations and great advantages. If you've never met a person you are less likely to be self consious and less likely to worry about being judged. I think it also helps to have virtual friends to talk about things that you wouldn't to real friends or family just because of the nature of the problem.

As the saying goes "REal friends are hard to find"...I believe in the trusting relationship formed between the presence of two good friends. It is indeed very helpful just knowing you have true friends who are just a phone call away. However it can handy to know you have virtual friends because they can be helpful in many ways you can never imagine possible. Virtual friendship provides you a non-intimate friendship which saves you the hassle of fighting and it also provies you with a not too personal level of friendship which can be handy when you need to have an instant response on some kind of personal question or problem. You create a virtual identity of yours and you are not revealing your real identity in virtual friendship which saves you the harm of blackmail problems. In this manner you just happen to have similar interest in a certain level only which does not grow into a more deeper friendship. My expectations from virtual friends are quite simple...I just expect it to be more superficial and pretty predictable. It's like having a distant friend whom you never see often but will be there when you need them without the cohesiveness of being together. Anyway, I believe in friendships that enjoy in which you don't need to be together physically but emotionally and intellectually.

I'd rather have a real friend than a virtual friend. You can't touch, hug, kiss, laugh with a virtual friend. You can with a real friend. And I'm not sure I agree that there's something that binds virtual friends.