[ SECRET POST #2462 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2462 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #352.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[forgottenjester]

I don't get it. Is F!S making you sad and you're happy you can say we're just numbers so you shouldn't feel so negative about this place? Or does it make you happy and your mom said we were numbers and so you don't feel like you can build an emotional connection with us?

Because my reply really varies depending on what it is. It also helps me figure out if you like the named users in your secret or you don't like them.

So, um, which is it, OP?

Either one I guess I would say that, you know, we're real people and we're going to create emotional attachments to one another regardless of the fact we only meet over the internet. Does that mean you're as close as the friend in real life whom I told I wanted to get friend-married to and she agreed? No. Sorry but there are some things to be said about real life interaction with a person. On the other hand, do I look forward to talking to people on here who I consider my friends? Yeah, I do. That's not a lie or wrong. It's just a different form of friendship because of the medium it's over.

Now, if you're upset by the things that happen here then you have every right to be upset. Those are real feelings. However, I would also advise that you stop coming here or at least stop reading wank if it's making you upset.

If you are actually, genuinely enjoying your time here and you're worried it's all a lie... um, I can assure you I am a real person and not a figment of your mom's imagination. It's all real. It matters to you if you let it matter. The emotions that are evoked by another person are legitimate even if it's over the internet.

Lastly, even if you have us it would be a good idea to get real life friends. Internet friends are great but I find they just can't do things real life friends can.

So I guess in the end my feeling is, it's not that internet friends aren't real, they're just really different from real life friends. However, the emotions you feel, positive or negative from them, are completely legitimate. How can feelings not be legit?

[(Anonymous)]

Speaking for myself, I'm closer to people on the internet whom I've known since forever, than the people I've more recently met IRL. Not everyone has a BFF they've known for years and years - it gets tougher as you get older and your life situations keep changing and everyone moves around. But the people who have stayed constant for me for 10+ years, even as we drift from fandom to fandom or in and out of it completely... I'd call them the best friends I've ever had.

[forgottenjester]

Time is a huge thing. Of course you're going to have a stronger connection with people you've known longer.

I'm not saying online friends aren't real or are lesser, just different.

I was saying that I, personally, have stronger friendships with real life people not just because of time but because of the physical things I can actually do with them that are really important to me in a relationship.

But never did I say my internet friends were lesser or not important.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh? I never said you said those things. I too was speaking for myself, like I indicated in the post.

[forgottenjester]

Oh I so read your post wrong. Wow, go me.

Uuuuggghhhh I'm not even tired. This is what I get for frying my brain with anxiety over a play.

Sorry about that anon!

[(Anonymous)]

Does that mean you're as close as the friend in real life whom I told I wanted to get friend-married to and she agreed? No. Sorry but there are some things to be said about real life interaction with a person.

I wish more people online would get this.

[forgottenjester]

Eh, it's all about an individual's experience.

[(Anonymous)]

I met my girlfriend online, though, and I want to get real-married with her, though. :|c

I mean, which isn't to say that I don't want real life interaction with her, 'cause she totes visited me and that was great and I would like more of that. But I'm just saying. Didn't start that way.