Originally Posted by
Empired
I've come to realise in recent years that online relationships, whether they be romantic or platonic, don't necessarily translate into real life relationships in the same way. People can be extremely different online even if they don't realise it and it means you can really click when you're communicating through a screen but might feel awkward and detached when seeing each other face to face. I'm not saying they're all like this, that's just my experience with them. I couldn't express myself at all in the real world for years but I didn't experience such bad social anxiety on the internet, meaning I must've been suuuper different in person.
These days I'm not so interested in online relationships (sorry I mean friendships - I would absolutely not consider online romantic relationships under any circumstances). I'm happy maintaining the very few I have but I really really benefit from face to face real life friendships. If you'd told my anxiety ridden, awkward, emotionally unstable fourteen year old self this, though, I'd have been super shocked. Never thought I'd be so sociable lol.
Glad it worked out for you though man. Just ain't my cuppa tea.