[ SECRET POST #5143 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5143 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really believe you can have purely online friends. Like I bet if these people met irl they would annoy the piss out of each other.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. I met my wife online. And my current guy-who's-like-my-bro. Same with a lot of friends.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

I, and I am sure many other people in this comm, have met people from online and gotten along great

This is empirically wrong

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[tabaqui]

I met my bff online and we've gone to cons and taken trips together and I luff her and would spend tons more time with her if i/we could. So...no.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

most of my irl friends as well as my roommate of 11 years I met online so. LMAO NO.

I have a lot of online friends who I know for a fact would probably annoy the piss out of me if we met irl and that's why we don't. and that's fine. they're my online-only friends. and that's fine.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

That's possible, but not inevitable. I've been meeting online friends for nearly two decades now, both in fandom and other hobbies. We get along fine, and would love to see each other in person more often if not for geography/the expense/schedules and now, this damn pandemic.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

Going to join the crowd here: I have more than a few online friends I met in person and spent more than a few minutes with and we got along fine...even spending several days together overnight! Amazing how that works.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

Well... the one person I did meet IRL from online, we don't really talk anymore. But I suspect this is mostly due to my being an asshole to them at various times during our online "friendship," while being stunningly thoughtless to the point of lacking empathy at other times. But if I weren't so shitty, I'm sure I'd be talking to them in 2021. But that's just me, and probably a poor gauge of online friendships.

But at no point did they annoy me IRL. I probably annoyed them though.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, chiming in with the rest of people here. I've lived with two friends I knew online for years before ever meeting them in person, was engaged to one of them. (Probably still would be in that relationship if health problems hadn't destroyed us.)

Aside from those two VERY notable exceptions to this idea, I mean, I go to cons and do cosplay so I am always meeting people who I met online because "hey this con is near where I live, we should meet up". And there have been a few who were just socially awkward in general but still very nice, and the majority it's been the same when we're in person as when we're online except that my disabilities get in the way of communicating as effectively (which is why I mostly have online-only friends who I occasionally see in person).

There are some people I know online that boy howdy, they're fun online but I would not want to actually spend much time around them in person because of the drama and/or chaos that they seem to intentionally seek out pretty regularly. We can be buds at a safe distance where I am not at all involved with that stuff.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[greghousesgf]

I met lots of my online friends IRL and we got along great.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[thewakokid]

Good secret.

Disagree, but this secret is actually worthy of being called a secret. Look at the reaction you got. Very nice work.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: Secrets you don't want to make and don't want anybody to make into secrets

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you've never met an online friend in person, or at the very least done some kind of video chat with them, then the friendship you have is specifically an online friendship, which is qualitatively different than an IRL friendship. It's real (whatever that means), but it's different from the kind of friendship you have with people you actually hang out with, repeatedly, for long periods of time.

I disagree that you can't meet online friends and become IRL friends with those people, though. I also disagree that online friendship is a totally non-transferrable credit, so to speak. Being friends with someone for a long time online can, potentially, lead to you quickly coming to feel like long-term, bonded friends IRL. (Alternatively, it can work against you, and make it harder for you to connect IRL, but neither one is a certainty.)