Is friendship affected by distance?

[MrGazet]

I'm just curious about this

So what are your views bout it?

I think it does,cause if you live so far from someone,the closeness is not there anymore.Yeah,you can communicate via all the technologies, but I still think that a face to face communication is vital in making the friendship alive.But maybe these are just my views,so what's yours?

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[Tash.]

I think a friendship can be and remain pretty strong despite a distance (no matter how small or how large) nowadays. Technology has made it more practical, you can talk on the phone or using skype, you can video call people so you can see them, you can email, use msn.. possibilities are endless. So yeah I think if you put in the effort and the time to speak to someone the friendship can be as strong as ever.

[Seatherny]

I'm just curious about this

So what are your views bout it?

I think it does,cause if you live so far from someone,the closeness is not there anymore.Yeah,you can communicate via all the technologies, but I still think that a face to face communication is vital in making the friendship alive.But maybe these are just my views,so what's yours?

I think it depends how much effort you put in like Tash said.
I still speak to quite a lot of my high school / college friends on MSN, and we are still good friends. We speak and text regularly so its not really much different.

[Smits]

Theres no doubt it can remain strong, but it will deffinately be affected by the distance, probably in a negative way as wel.

[alexxxxx]

one of my best mates lives in italy. s'fine.

[Gemma]

I think it can be hard to keep friendships when you're far apart. Basically all of my previous friends who have moved I barely talk to anymore, or see. I guess when you separate you find new friends and move on.

[Doug.]

I think it is. My friends moved away and we really dont speak. It is sad.

[e5]

Relationships, friendships are obviouslt going to be affected by the distance in which you live. If you can't see each other, the only fun you can have is via technology, while in ur real life at home, u have friends there to go out with, slowly moving away from this best friend or whatever...:/

[MrGazet]

I still think that friendship is affected by distance.Well,I still feel that nothing comes close than actually being there and enjoying all the things you do together that will strengthen the bond.Yes,you can still keep in touch but I think in some ways you have stopped building up memories and only have old memories to talk about.

[Meree.]

I can see where you are coming from, and yes it is better to have friends where as you can communicate with them in person; face to face. But I see nothing wrong with becoming really good friends with people online, I always find people online understand you better than people you origonally know in real life.And who knows, you may meet that online friend sometime in your life, maybe not even realising it, or maybe organising to meet up? Over all, I see nothing wrong with it, and I feel you can be just as close with e-friends as the friends you see in real life.

[cocaine]

friendship can be affected but it depends how much you both want to make it work. i have a friend i met on a ski trip and she lives in newcastle, and i live in london. she's one of my closest friends and that's because we keep in contact through msn, and we talk on the phone a lot too. it all depends on how much effort you're both willing to put in and if you're both willing to do so there shouldn't be any problems at all.

[Scophobia]

I don't think distance does affect friendship tbh. Three of my closest friends live far away, but I'm more close to them than I am to other people.. :)

[LuciieOx]

I Think it does, I have a friend that moved to Australia and we only started talking again like last week an that was only once in about 2/3 years it may be diffrent for other people but yea, I think the further away you are the less contact you keep.

[Gibs960]

I think so, like my friend is moving to Wales and I don't think we'll be very good mates over facebook, unless I saw her, so I think it does.

[Arch]

If your really close friends it will, but if your decent friends it wont really youll still talk. One of my good friends moved about 2 hours away i probably see him like once every 2 months or me and my buddies go visit him were still close and talk quite abit actually.

[Oleh]

yeah, my mate jacky used to be one of my best mates, used to smack him about everyday n have a laugh, now its the odd text every 4-5 month or facebook chat, he only lives about 10 minutes down the road via train but we never speak hardly

[Black_Apalachi]

I've kind of became distant from one of my mates (the only one I've known since reception as well). It's kind of because he lives more out of the way from the rest of us so can only come out with us if he can get a lift over. And when we're organising a night out, we're always like, 'oh btw did you ask Chris?'.

Then when we all went to uni, he probably went the furthest away and by himself so he quickly made new mates over there and we just don't talk as much online (I mean him vs all of us, not just me). It's not like bad.. the relationship is still there, and when we all come back from uni he comes out with us. It's just kind of what it is really.

[Meanies]

yes it does.
i moved up north from down south like a few years ago and hardly talk to anyone from down there now. i don't talk to my old best mate from down there like at all except from in the summer when i go down to see family i go see him aswell but other than that we don't really talk. oh but i did get a christmas card from him (Y)

[luce]

depends i know mine would be with my best friend because i like to see them everyday or there abouts but with other friends i can go all summer without seeing them and nothing changes it just depends how good a friend you are with them :)!

[-:Undertaker:-]

A real friendship is affected by distance, yes.

[Louisee.]

I find that some long distance friends are actually closer to me than some of mine irl. :S like, i feel that i can just confide in them with secrets. Cos tbh, who are they really going to tell? :L They can be great company online, but i guess it'd probably be a stronger friendship if they were communicating to you face to face as you can't always tell if someone online is actually your friend or likes you for that matter of fact as i have witnessed online.

[Pyroka]

my close mates that i tell most things r online tbh. my mates irl i do tell stuff, but not as much. its crazy times.

[colourpot]

i have met some amazing people online, infact they are better friends than some of the friends i had at school. i feel more comftable talking about stuff online to friends that irl but thats just me. ive met most of the people i know online anyway and its really good to stay in contact with them and i think i will for the rest of my life.