@kent f OBE wrote:
I think it’s possible to have good online friends. You have to remember that even our “normal” friends don’t necessarily know everything about you. Only a best friend would…or a few extremely close friends. I think if you are a suspicious type and always think you don’t fully know that person is telling the truth then you will never make genuine online friends or indeed you yourself won’t be genuine. It all depends why and how things pan out. I’m sure when chatrooms and so forth started we didn’t all sit down …turn the pc on…and think “right who do I make friends with”…you either connect with someone or you don’t…there a fair few people I really really like in JC chat and have a laugh with them and I feel get on with them very well, but don’t actually consider them as friends, but people I see in the room. I don’t mean that to sound nasty or anything..just if phone numbers of M S N isn’t exchanged a friendship cannot develop maybe?
Couldn’t of said it better, myself! There are a few people that i’ve extended more then my msn to, those fair few i consider to be really good friends i’ve made over the years and hey maybe that makes me gullible or naive but we take these risks in real life too, don’t we? Of course that’s not to say i trust every Tom, Dick and Harry :lol: :D