e-Buddies

Originally Posted by Lady Miyomi

I'm wondering what other people's thoughts are on this subject.

1) Do you put them on the same level as IRL friends?
2) Do you allow them the same benefits as IRL friends?

or

3) Do you keep them at arms' length because you don't know them?
4) Do you think the whole idea is a joke?

1) When I've known them for a long while, and depending on the person, yes.
2) I don't know what that means.

3) Nope. I'm not good at being distant with people. I give freely of myself. More so than I should, sometimes.
4) No, not really. I think it's not an easy thing though.

It's easier to be "friends" over the internet than in real life, so therefore it is correspondingly harder to make a real connection with someone. It can happen though. The one thing that I do reject utterly as a joke and as a waste of time is online relationships. Until and unless you meet that person and spend time with them in the real world, it is not real. That is the voice of experience. Bitter, bitter experience.

Jam it back in, in the dark.