| 4/16/2008 2:05:38 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
metu
Mansfield, TX
age: 47
| If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand. If you understand, no explanation is necessary. The people that I've met on-site, but also talk with off-site are some of the ones I consider friends.
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| 4/16/2008 2:15:06 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
wonderturtle
Overland Park, KS
age: 42
| My friends and co workers look at me like I'm nutz when i tell em about all the friends I've made online, and that I found the love of my life here too. But at least one of my co workers can sympathize; he met his wife of 8 years online and they are still 'happily ever after' with kids too.
They may think I'm nutz..but where else am I gonna meet the caliber of people I've met here? certainly not in the bars..I don't drink anymore so going to a bar isn't on my list of places to go to meet people.
I think what someone said in a previous post is correct..it will take a few more years for society to fully accept this 'new' technology and new ideas on interpersonal relations. Until then, we can only lead by example.
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| 4/16/2008 2:57:54 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
ladyvirtue52
Redding, CA
age: 52
| I pretty much leave that part out of the conversation. If I discuss something that a "friend" told me, I dont admit to it being an online friend. People who do not use the online dating dont understand and I dont need to hear the negative feedback. I used to be one of them before I became single....go figure.. 
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| 4/17/2008 2:47:32 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
cincin3500
Lapeer, MI
age: 36
| If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand. If you understand, no explanation is necessary
I always walk away from every thread with something. I think this is it in this one, thanks metu.
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| 4/17/2008 9:17:37 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
cincin3500
Lapeer, MI
age: 36
|  At least we don't eat your food. Bonus!
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| 4/17/2008 11:34:37 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
epiphany4me
Bullhead City, AZ
age: 48
| online FRIENDS?
You are kidding, Right?
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| 4/19/2008 10:02:17 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
weedster
Ferndale, MI
age: 41
| ive been lucky meeting people online i havent run into any weird people yet. i actually hang out with a woman i met online sometimes. we have become good friends but she did lie to me when i asked her how old she was she told me she was 32 and when i knocked on her door for the first time a girl answered the door whom looked about 18 and i asked if her mother was in and she said no im crystal. now we had been online friends for 6 months and i just blurted out you are not 32 she said no i just turned 22 but you seemed so cool online that i lied because i figured you wouldnt hang out with someone as young as me. i told her she could have been 62 and she could still be my friend. we laughed about it but it did make me feel good that id made a good impression on her and she still to this day calls me and wants to do stuff every week or so. mike
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| 4/20/2008 9:35:10 AM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
flowergirl62
South Australia
Australia
age: 46
| Onelife are you serious..............or seriously insane?
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| 5/3/2008 2:49:02 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
eagleeyes7
Fort Myers, FL
age: 61
| Something special often takes place when a person reveals something about themselves that they wouldn't ordinarily bring up in a conversation with those they associate with.
Part of what we expereince here with others is a good teaching experience, and when we find someone who we can relate to, bond with, or just have good conversations with, it adds somthing to who we are, and how we relate to others that we find an attraction to, for many different reasons.
I personally enjoy having such valued and interesting "friends" as I have come to know, and each one has an attraction for me that I really treasure.
There is no favoritism, no opinionated critisicm, and no judgemental aspects to these we have found a bond with, and each one should realize that they are special for a different reason.
Eagle Out~
[Edited 5/3/2008 2:52:07 PM]
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| 5/3/2008 4:44:57 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
scruffbutt
Saint Paul, MN
age: 48
| ya know..i explain nothing to no one.....were all adults...this is my buisness...the cool thing is..when i do venture on here now....i find a way to learn something new...or to chat with someone whose down....or vice versa....
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| 5/3/2008 4:47:17 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
mitchell1221
Chattanooga, TN
age: 45
| ya know..i explain nothing to no one.....were all adults...this is my buisness...the cool thing is..when i do venture on here now....i find a way to learn something new...or to chat with someone whose down....or vice versa....
100% agree scruff, it's no ones business
unless i want to share it with them
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| 5/3/2008 5:42:13 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
wolfkeeper
Hamilton, MI
age: 47
| Ditto on that Mitchell and Scruff...
I dont have the time or schedule to keep up with my friends if it weren't for the "online".. and what a great window/world of opprotunity is right here at my fingertips. I keep up with all my real world friends and family online as well.
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| 5/3/2008 6:13:39 PM | How do you explain on line "friends" | |
klassykitten
Toccoa, GA
age: 51
| I don't....I answer to no one but myself and it ain't nobody's business but my own.
I enjoy and look forward to spending time with my online friends each and everyday. The return on my investment of the hours and days shared with them is more than I ever expected. The fun and laughter, the tears, the companionship, the games and the good friends that I have made and the feeling of family is more than I have with the ones I see eye to eye on a daily basis.
So the sleep deprivation, the backed up and not done housework, the cramped hands and sore butt and bloodshot eyes, the procrastination and the unanswered phone with a hundred messages and all the other things and people I ignore to be online...doesn't bother me near as much as the thought of not being online. I can get totally bent if I can't log in when I want. There's a lot of things I would give up before my DSL and PC.
This whole experience is PRICELESS to me....
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