Internet Relationships

[Kid A]

@belle: But actually, you're boyfriend's opinion is pretty strange. I've already made some great experiences via the Internet. But to me, that are friendships. Some are great, some not so great, but it is a big step from a "friendship" to a "relationship".
Is your friend just writing them messages or does he call his Internet-friends, too?
Because if you called people, you could learn many things about them. If you write a letter to someone you don't know, but you think you might like, you will be very polite and friendly. But everyone does so! It's rather difficult to find out what kind of human anybody can be, if the only thing you know about him/her is the way he writes messages.
But if you call the person, you hear his/her voice, the way he expresses him/herself, the way he/she laughs... and so on.
It's much more personal. I don't know if I mentioned that before, but I met my Internet-friend the first time, when we've known each other for 2 years. In that time we had already talked to each other on to phone- for hours.
But nevertheless it was a strange situation to meet her. Suddenly it was very hard to talk to her, very hard to behave like I always do. It wasn't a problem, because we both recognized quickly that we really really really like each other. But at the beginning it was harder than I thought.
I have to say that I am pretty careful as regards Internet friendships. I've also experienced some shitty things.

I'm just noticing that I have problems to stick the point. I just wanted to say that I'm your opinion.

[nimloth]

Hello everybody,

as far as I'm concerned the internet is great thing if you want to meet people who have the same interests- especially when there's no one "in reality" who shares the same ones. It's much easier via the net to find people to talk to about your hobbies,books,music-whatever it is.
U think this is the important point about internet friendships or relationsships. You need to find that you have lots in common because otherwise you run out of things to say very quickly. I experienced that for a couple of times.
And then it can just go on,develop when you feel like it- call each other or maybe even meet.