You think it’s easier to make friends online than in real life?

I have no issues making friends in real life… but online is another thing. I see a lot of people having online friendships. But for some reason it’s hard for me to get close to people online.

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I think both is easy. But it's hard to keep them or to be close friends with someone. At least for me.

I can keep friendship pretty good irl…

But online not really… it often ends before it can develop to anything that could be called “friendship” lol

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online, I didn't think it would be possible to keep them for so long but I have 3 online friends that I've been talking to for 4+ years (met one of them irl and I hope I will be able to meet the other 2 too eventually)

Same… I have 3 (from AKP) people I’m friends with since the 2.Gen 😅… we keep in touch outside of AKP cause none of them are still active here.

All the other people I met online were Facebook time, but we never lived so far away so we ended up being rl friends actually lol.

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online

I will even say more, the best relationships that I was in were always with girls that I've meet online, and then after some time we started dating irl

All the time I thought you’re a girl… should have checked your profile lol

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I mean, I do keep the friendships, I never fight with anyone (I think it came off wrong), I just distance myself from people or time flies and we don't see each other and I don't make much effort to contact them, even though I should.

Uhh… I know this very well 😅… I think this usually happens when the chemistry wasn’t really that good to keep the interest in the friendship.

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damn I'm that girly?

hehe I'm a man, I bet it's disappointing for many

Sure lol… I also thought superyeah was a Girl until I saw his selfie on post your selfie… tbh in that case I was a bit disappointed… not about the picture, but the fact he was a man. I don’t know why . But I accepted it .

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For me it's not about the chemistry at all, usually just someone moves away and it takes too much effort to meet so after a while, you just stop meeting, because I'm full of excues and want to spend my time alone. :D

But to the point, you're right, it's harder to make friends online, but for me, I never intended to make any friends online, so to even be friendly, seem like 'friends' to me now. It's super unusual for me to even talk with people that I haven't met in person haha. 🙈

Edit: also I thought the question of the poll was what is harder, so I voted for online, but I can't change the vote now :D

This could be me… I’m an introvert ( wouldn’t think that if you meet me irl) so I love my time alone. So if your living to far away, it can be a friendship killer for me too…. Wow

Yeah the poll title and the Thread title are a little different. But you explained in the comments.

I get what you meat. You already feel “ ok there is something” if you’re having an ongoing friendly conversation and that several times. Just like me I didn’t intended to make friends. Tbh I didn’t even thought I would come if nice enough for people to even want to be friends with me. Cause writing online makes you miss half of the things that can be delivered through conversations.