Comments on: Are Online Friends “Real Friends”? http://www.johnlacey.com/social-media/are-online-friends-real-friends/ Connect, Create, Collaborate Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: cindy http://www.johnlacey.com/social-media/are-online-friends-real-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-2477 cindy Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:36:15 +0000 http://www.johnlacey.com/?p=687#comment-2477 I cherish my online friends and RL friends...and it is so fun when the two cross barriers. I've met more people online. It's opened my world. I cherish my online friends and RL friends…and it is so fun when the two cross barriers. I’ve met more people online. It’s opened my world.

]]> By: Kath http://www.johnlacey.com/social-media/are-online-friends-real-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-2476 Kath Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:11:03 +0000 http://www.johnlacey.com/?p=687#comment-2476 Friends are friends, no matter how you connect with them. I had the fortune to travel to the US and meet all of the women I had been chatting to on various health forums for YEARS. And it was just like being with friends that I had chatted to in person for years. Friends are friends, no matter how you connect with them. I had the fortune to travel to the US and meet all of the women I had been chatting to on various health forums for YEARS. And it was just like being with friends that I had chatted to in person for years.

]]> By: Candice Pendergast http://www.johnlacey.com/social-media/are-online-friends-real-friends/comment-page-1/#comment-2471 Candice Pendergast Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:00:20 +0000 http://www.johnlacey.com/?p=687#comment-2471 "If anything, I tend to think these relationships can be much more meaningful to the extent that they’re based on shared passions, interests and beliefs, rather than just the stuff of circumstance – a shared city, workplace, demographic." Totally agree, but in my experience there is another level to your social network friends/online friends, whatever you want to call them. I find that with my online friends the absence of "social barriers" or prejudices as such makes me feel comfortable talking to just about anyone. For example I have no problem replying to Rove on Twitter, but faced with real life, I am the first to say that I would probably be a little bit intimidated, even though he is short. ;) What's more, there is a woman who I regularly talk to on Twitter who, as I get to know her, appears to be a bit of a hippy. Not that I care, but in a real life situation, we may not be each other's "type". So maybe, could it be true to say, that our online friends are our "real" friends? Or to go to the extreme, are our "true" friends? “If anything, I tend to think these relationships can be much more meaningful to the extent that they’re based on shared passions, interests and beliefs, rather than just the stuff of circumstance – a shared city, workplace, demographic.”

Totally agree, but in my experience there is another level to your social network friends/online friends, whatever you want to call them.

I find that with my online friends the absence of “social barriers” or prejudices as such makes me feel comfortable talking to just about anyone. For example I have no problem replying to Rove on Twitter, but faced with real life, I am the first to say that I would probably be a little bit intimidated, even though he is short. ;) What’s more, there is a woman who I regularly talk to on Twitter who, as I get to know her, appears to be a bit of a hippy. Not that I care, but in a real life situation, we may not be each other’s “type”.

So maybe, could it be true to say, that our online friends are our “real” friends? Or to go to the extreme, are our “true” friends?

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