online friends vs real life friends

[Inseriousity.]

Firstly eww that sig is gross dirrty. What happened to the ones with pretty girls in them ;P

Personality-wise I'd say online friends are better because I think they're more open to joking around. My rl friends are very serious all the time so it's hard to chill out around them. My own fault really for sitting next to the mature students although, in that context of uni, I don't mind it too much.

[buttons]

i dunno.

majority of my friends irl are people i'd only say hi to in the street or in town, maybe have a convo with them on facebook. i don't open up to a lot of people in real life, it would take me some quite time to be comfortable with them. in saying that, i am extremely honest about almost anything but i say it more in a jokey way (which i don't actually mind). i really don't fit in with a lot of people irl and it's hard to make friends, the only time i fit in with anyone is when i'm drunk or in college because we all want to do the same thing. i find it so much easier to talk to people online because they don't have to see me, irl i'm more anxious n bleh. i would rather be the person i am on here than irl though sometimes.


online i'd say i prefer because there's such a wide variety of people out there who i have more interests with. + i've known people on here longer than i've been friends with most people i know irl. i rarely stick to the same group of people for one time irl, though i do have some childhood friends that i still talk to. i end up drifting away from my 'best friend'.


however, my current best friend is someone i knew back in school. we were never that close but hung about in the same group. she left with no qualifications, became a bum and a drug addict. she has completely changed her life around and i'm extremely open and honest with her. she knows absolutely everything about me and is very understanding which surprised me because she never seemed a 'deep' person. she has more common sense than me and can look after herself better than i can and has also dealt with her past, which is worse than mine, better than i have. it really is a case of "dont judge a book by its cover/past (hi tom)". although our interests and lives are completely different, it works. no-one i've met on the internet could ever replace her, no matter how more 'intelligent', 'nicer' or 'prettier' they are compared to her.


she doesn't seem like the time of person i'd go to talk to if i met them online. not someone i'd give the chance to anyway. i was just saying the other day, you don't know if you'd get along with the people you meet on the internet in real life. i actually think some of the people i talk to on here and those of similar interests etc are people i'd feel more self conscious around and not good enough for? i know that when i talk to people irl then they add me on facebook, they think i'm a completely different person. or if you talk to me on here then skype me or meet me irl i'm probably not what you'd expect. you can't really tell how a person will be, there's not a voice or body language or you don't even know how they smell (smell can be quite a huge factor in whether i like someone more or not (A)) etc. people online can be better or worse irl but from what i've seen on skype, almost everyone goes up in my estimations because even though it's only a voice, it's more real. i've disliked people i've met on here for stupid reasons then you talk to them on skype and get on better with them. that's my view.

wow....sry i ramble. i do that irl too so

[Plucked]

Both have their ups and downs...

I've had several "online friends" who i've since met up with in person, so now we're rl friends i guess. I trust my rl friends a hell of a lot more than I would trust anybody online, purely because I have major trust issues anyway - kudos to the idiots online who showed me why i should never trust people online.

[Charlie]

I don't really see my RL friends much nowadays, I only really see them when I'm out drinking so they're only really good as drinking buddies and the people who I work with but I don't really see them out of work, just in work and even then, I don't talk to them much. I don't have many online friends either but I'm probably more open and honest with them than I am RL friends.

[hiyahon]

REAL LIFE

i say this because i've had the same group of friends since reception, basically my whole life.

[Seikou]

probably online tbh, they understand me more and we're more similar and get on a lot better

[Paige.]

personality-wise i'd say online friends because i've noticed that people online are much more open and are easier to talk to and let themselves be who they really are. people may say that this is only because they're behind a computer screen. so what? they're still real people with real feelings. although, i do have a close friendship group and there are two people out of it for definite that i would chose over online friends but i love them all so it's kind of a hard decision. i guess it takes longer for people to show their true colours and personality irl whereas online i think people aren't as reluctant.

[Cerys]

For me, I think online friends are more open and share loads of stuff with me, but with irl friends I can find out what we have in common more easier.

Tbh I think my online/irl friend is the best. Me and him talk all the time on habbo, and when we meet we have such a good laugh.

[Vause]

My rl friends are okay but they all have this little group that we hang out in, but they're all in couples so it can be awkward. They don't listen to me as good as my online friends. Plus i've met someone amazing people online who i've met up with and have stayed very close too since like 2004

[Lee]

It's easier to talk to Online friends without awkwardness etc but Real Life friends share some of the best experiences of your life and that can't be replaced with a computer IMO.