Monday, November 12, 2012
Internet Relationships...
It might be weird to say but yes I have made friends that exclusively live in cyberspace. When I was a kid in middle school and high school I played a lot of online video games. In those video games you are able to create friends list with people that you met online and you can either build a greater relationship, play together online, or whatever else you wish. I had one friend I met playing online one night. I added him to my friends list and for a while we would just play together online. After a while we started chatting outside the online realm through email or texts. Over time we became really good friends but after a while we both grew up and stopped talking. Mostly it didn't work because I was never able to see him due to the fact that he lived across the United States. What I learned from that relationship online was that it is nothing like a f2f relationship. It requires much more time and effort and I hate to say it was too much for me when I looked back on what I had done. I haven't formed one since then.
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Internet-based relationships can be interesting. I, personally, have actually had one relationship online, and I met the person face-to-face at a convention in Ohio. We still talk every now and then but, because of how busy our lives are, we tend not to do so. What happened with you and your online friend is what typically happens: They drift apart due to the fact that they cannot see one another. Despite this, though, some can actually blossom and become friendships that can last a lifetime, but that is most definitely atypical. If anything, these friendships can be healthy in allowing someone to express themselves verbally without relying on nonverbal communication. Just relying on internet relationships, though, is unhealthy, as it makes identifying nonverbal cues more difficult to do. If anything, finding the healthy medium is important for being online with friends.
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