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KingofKaboom
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28 Mar 2008, 3:15 am

How does one even make friends on here I wonder.........


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28 Mar 2008, 7:01 am

We just do via AIM and MSNM links on here.


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28 Mar 2008, 8:35 am

I usually want to get to know someone through PM before adding them to my IM.

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28 Mar 2008, 7:02 pm

Online 'friends' are almost as much hard work as real-life 'friends'. I tried for years to get it right. Either I fell out with people or they cut me off saying I was 'hard work'.

As I tell people who question me about what they see as my lack of effort "If I made no effort I wouldn't be here having to listen to you tell me this" :roll:


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29 Mar 2008, 2:09 am

HereComeTheLizards wrote:
Online 'friends' are almost as much hard work as real-life 'friends'. I tried for years to get it right. Either I fell out with people or they cut me off saying I was 'hard work'.


I've had this problem with a few people online. But most who i've met online have been fairly decent people, and some have become rather good friends.
I have better friends online now, than I have EVER had in real life.


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29 Mar 2008, 3:17 am

I only have 1 online friend of sorts and my ex to talk to after almost a decade of being around.
Overall, I do better offline even though I don't have any specific friends.
I just don't fit in.



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30 Mar 2008, 4:51 pm

I agree that it's harder to work and i've screwed up with a few online, but some I know i'm glad I met them.



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30 Mar 2008, 5:39 pm

I don't even have friends online anymore....



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30 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm

I seem to have the same problems online as I do offline. Some people seem to decide to dislike me and I don't know why. Sometimes people misunderstand me when I write something because they read things into it that I didn't mean.



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30 Mar 2008, 8:34 pm

Dracula wrote:
I usually want to get to know someone through PM before adding them to my IM.

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That true too.


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31 Mar 2008, 7:37 am

I made a bunch of good friends online by playing an MMOG, that's a "Massive Multiplayer Online Game". I think it's easier for me to socialize online than it is offline, much easier. This group of friends I made (about 4-5 people) that I still hang out with know about my AS, so they know why I don't act normal.