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OK, I will tell you all - if there's anyone in the Atlanta area who has no family and would like to come to Newnan for Thanksgiving on the Saturday after - let me know - you are all welcome. After my in-laws leave, we can break out the wine.
OK, I will tell you all - if there's anyone in the Atlanta area who has no family and would like to come to Newnan for Thanksgiving on the Saturday after - let me know - you are all welcome. After my in-laws leave, we can break out the wine.
In Va now, but if I still lived in Atlanta, would most def drive down and have a glass of wine with you!!! LOVE me some wine!!!
Many of us doesn’t have any friends except net friends. We know each other mostly by fake names.. Sometimes we call other people.. "best friend".. Simply this doesn’t happen in real life..
Mostly you can't describe any one as a best friend, unless you know him well. But on the other hand, we heard about thousands of love and marriage stories had happened through the internet. Once, I heard my professor says "I can't talk well to anybody in the dark, I need to see his face". So, can the relationship be a real friendship through the net?.
I do think net friendships are real friendships, or at least they can be. I mean, what is friendship if not spending time with each other and supporting each other?
So yes, I think online friendships can be real -- sometimes more so than real-life "friendships". People who are two-faced and selfish can be just as fake in person as they can be on the internet. I think the same criteria we use in determining if a real-life friendship is "real" are pretty much the same ones we can use online. Your mileage may vary.
Back in the day when not everyone and the kitchen sink had a computer (1998) I joined a group that later became a full website and forum. We used it as a networking platform and many of us got to know earch other well. Because of work some of us actually met. In any case it was a tight group that grew over the years. It's still around but not the same place I knew as many of us have moved on but it was good while it lasted and I met some awesome people that I will never forget.
With these people, many were real I guess it was before every kid had a computer, so you were dealing with real people, some quite accomplished that didn't have to bull **** as is many do these days. Since then I'm more private and really haven't gone out of my way to meet people although 2 1/2 years a go I did hire a womans husband. I'd originally met her on a very large forum.
Even more reason to avoid some people from message boards. I've had someone from this forum who can't shut off his on line life from his real life DMing me to reiterate what he has already posted here and to let me know that mature broads aint all that and how being young and hot is all that matters seriously dude, must you?
Anyways...it's just after noon here in London but it's after 4 am in LA and you've been sending messages all night. Listen, put the pipe down take a xanax and start a new day when you awake.
Many of us doesn’t have any friends except net friends. We know each other mostly by fake names.. Sometimes we call other people.. "best friend".. Simply this doesn’t happen in real life..
Mostly you can't describe any one as a best friend, unless you know him well. But on the other hand, we heard about thousands of love and marriage stories had happened through the internet. Once, I heard my professor says "I can't talk well to anybody in the dark, I need to see his face". So, can the relationship be a real friendship through the net?.
Look at our favorite C-D couple Rance & Sweden!
For you & anyone else who shares your opinion; get out! Get out there in the world & DO make "real life" friends! What's stopping you?? Absolutely I think an online friendship can be as legit as a "3D" one - just reading all the responses to your post should convince you of that. But if you are using the net as your crutch so you can avoid the face to face interactions....well, that's just sad. There are lots of avenues to explore in order to meet people - online is just one.
I see your professor's point, but I think the flip side can be true also. I made a few posts here on CD that I seriously doubt I would have ever had the guts to say in person...easier to show a vulnerable side of oneself via the net than face to face - IMO.
Every friendship brings something different to the table; are you satisfied having only internet friends? Great if yes, but if no, join some activities & groups, contact your alumni assn. to be included in the next get together. BE a friend to MAKE a friend!
Right after I retired (about 7 years ago) I read an article in our local newspaper about an author who had written some books and there were "groups" around the country who were Sweet Potato Queens wannabees. I joined the message board and went to a parade in Jackson Ms where there were about 10 thousand or so women who were SPQs. From there, I met several people who have become almost like family. We have met at the beach, in Las Vegas, was honorary moms to a young friend who was getting married in FL and her mother would not attend. There is a group of about 12 of us that are "sisters of the heart." There are also lots of other friendships out there also. If any of us are travelling, we can put a shout out and see who lives where and if they would like to meet up. Some people you like and can bond with, others you can say nah, they're not my type, etc. I do have friends in real life too.
I was on a Delbert McClinton Sandy Beaches cruise & the author of the SPQ books (Jill something?) was one of the performers! Her "wannabees" went all over the ship & by the end of the week had recruited a dozen more SPQ wannabees! It was a hoot!!!
BTW OP- that is an EXCELLENT way to make new friends: join an activity you already like solo (such as rocking out to great music!) - & you will surely meet kindred spirits!
Piperspal, that is Jill Conner Brown. She is the author of the SPQ books. I was even on Good Morning America once when she was being interviewed. Not just in the crowd, but standing right behind her. Did you happen to meet a redhaided "Martha Jean" and Mr. Bill? They have been on most of the Delbert cruises in the last few years. She entertains he and his group when they are in the Mobile, AL area.
I haven't been to the parade in about 3 years, but am planning on going this year. It is a hoot and if you like to have fun, that is the place to be around St Patrick's Day in Jackson, MS.
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seriously dude, must you?
