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if it is someone i had a short conversation with once, then no. but there are some people on the internet that i talk to on almost a daily basis and they are really important to me. so yeah, i consider them real friends [:

Definately, and I talk about my Buzznet friends offline so much that my Mom says that I need to get out more.


*THAT SHOULD BE EMBARRASSING, BUT IT'S NOT.

:D

I consider them real friends.

Online friends can't be there to hug and hold you. They are there for you, but that is in a more virtual sense. They are awesome but at the same time they just can't be the same. And you never know who you are really talking to so I don't like to say too much about myself to them which is really different with my real life friends.

This is really hard to answer.

I used to think I could only be friends with people that I've met in person, but I've had some really amazing conversations with people via message. I feel like I know some people really well, then others have turned out to be creepy & I'm glad I'm safe hiding behind my screen.

I do sometimes talk about people on Buzznet with my real life friends & my therapist, but I never refer to Buzznet people as friends. I hope this doesn't hurt anyone feelings, but online friends are more acquaintances or invisible people that might not really exist & my lap top just generated you all to keep me amused.

I don’t know maybe meet me & buy me dinner; then I’ll call you a friend. ;)

The only online friends I don't consider friends are the ones that ask for nude pictures of myself.

I don't regularly talk to people online, usually its just a comment here or there, but if I did have regular conversations with someone I might consider them a real friend. It depends on the situation.

Most people are just aquaintances. A handful are friends. I've had the honor of meeting and getting close to one, whom I consider a dear friend, and I will be meeting one other in 45 days, my best friend (understatement), my dearest. I can't wait to hug him...it's been a long time coming. Obviously, with the closer friends, it's not just a 'comment relationship', there are phonecalls, texts, photos, videos, arranged meetings.

It's a lot like 'real life'; we meet a lot of people. Some are memorable, some not. Some casual friends, one or two kindred if you're lucky. Like in 'real life', it's a matter of who you choose to let yourself get close to, who you trust, who is there for you and vice versa, compatibility, and to what level you decide to take the friendship.

I could write indefinitely on this topic...but I probably shouldn't :P

I don't. A net buddy could become a "real" friend but that would be after talking a lot online and probably meeting up. At that point they wouldn't just be an internet friend anymore so... yeah. I don't consider net people to be real friends.

You're probably not even real anyway. I'm looking at you, Shadowy Board of Dark Shadowy Men!

For me, I consider one friend online as a real friend. (Sorry everyone else, but I don't know you enough D: )
She's a best friend to me, too. I talk to her just about every day for the last 2 and a half years, we've talked via webcam before (and NO, your purrrrrvs, not like that -_-) and confess everything to one another.
There's another person I talk to online a lot, but I have only talked to her for a little under a year.

A lot of people I talk to via Buzznet, Facebook, etc, are for a good part really nice and friendly. I've talk about some of you with my real world friends at times; hell, I even dated one of you onliners...
*mumbles 'stupid jerk' under breath*
But who knows? You might not even be real or who you say you are. Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuun.

I'm meeting a couple online friends over the next little while (with other friends, of course), so it should be interesting.