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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-02 06:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #2192 ]


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Re: Here's some advice

(Anonymous) 2013-01-03 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I think it might depend on the type of online friends that you have, too? I agree that it's good to have people that you can touch base with IRL, too, even if it's just to go out for lunch or to see a movie or to grab a coffee. I have friends through school and work here that I go out for a drink or hang out with every so often, but I'm honestly not as close to any of them as I am to my online friends.

I think this may be because of the nature of my online friends, though--they're not only fandom friends. We met through fandom, sure, but I've known most of them for at least five years (and some over a decade), and we talk to each other about all aspects of our lives, not just RP or fandom stuff (although we discuss that, too). We not only chat, but we talk on the phone and send each other mail and we even travel to visit each other when possible. If I'm ever having issues in my personal life, they're generally the first people (aside from my mom and sister) to ask about it. They're the ones that I go to when I need to discuss my feelings first. There are a few of my friends that live near me that I can do this with as well, but it always feels like more of a burden to share my problems with them, if that makes sense. My online friends and I also all make a point to check up on one another and we have a sort of friends-circle support thing going on. So, I think that it is possible to have online friends that you're extremely close to on a personal level, but you're also right in that that's not always going to be the case. I have my close knit group of online friends, sure, but I also have a lot of much more casual acquaintances that I really don't feel that connection to, and there have been a lot of people that I've fallen out of touch with in the past.

Okay, that was a bit of a rambly way to say that I mostly agree with you.