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Met your best friend on internet?

Discussion in 'Fun and Games' started by GhostNeko, Dec 29, 2014.

  1. GhostNeko

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    Have you met your best friend on the internet? .3.
    I have. YEARS ago. >.> Uhm... *starts counting with fingers* 1... 3... triangle... 5 years ago.
     
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    I met my current best friend here on EC, a while ago.
     
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    I met my best friends here on EC as well.
     
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    I didn't meet mine on EC~ Although I've made friends here~
     
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    Despite my dislike of social media, I actually met mine on twitter several years ago.
     
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    I don't think I can say I have a best friend, but one of my closest friendships is with a guy I met online (and later a couple times in person). Sometimes it's really easy to see if someone is special and while certainly not ideal for everything, online communication makes it easier to be really open about stuff.
     
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    Met my best friend online, fell in love, had a 3 year relationship, met with him irl, broke up 7 months ago, ended up becoming complete strangers.
     
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    I dont believe in the term best friend, though all of my nakama aside from 2 are online.
     
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    I've made friends over the internet, but not best friends.
     
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    No, I have not.
    I have found a few partners of past and present relationships online, though.
     
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    Nope, I met my best friend in kindergarten during recess. ^.^
     
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    Met my ex-bestfriend on an animation website back in 2011. Long story short, we are no longer on good terms.
     
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    :tears: This is saaad!

    I was looking for friends but instead I met my new family online, here in EC of course
     
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    Well, I definitely met my closest friend online. Met her on EC, no less.

    She knows who she is.
     
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    I actually met one friend, over 15 years ago, on ebay.
     
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    (Long-ass kinda sad post warning)

    I don't think anyone I've met has really fit the "best friend" title. That said, I did meet a guy on a support forum around three years ago, and he was definitely the closest I've ever been to another human, in terms of confidence and friendship.

    We only ever talked through the really shitty PM system of the support forum, but our responses would go back and forth all throughout the day. We'd write fucking essays to each other, debating metaphysical matters and just shooting the shit. He was someone who seemed to just always understand. The 11 year age gap didn't feel like it existed at all; we were so in tune with each other. Even though we were at completely different stages in life, we just got each other. We could share our stories of terrible things we'd done or said, talk about how dreadful life was, try to solve each other's problems, or even argue about comics. After his mother died, I was glued to any device on hand which connected to wifi, refreshing the webpage every twenty minutes, making sure I could respond as quickly as possible. Whenever I ran face first into hurdles, he'd be there to pull me up by my ears, and hand me an inspirational quote. We were like two soldiers, stitching each other's wounds sloppily.

    Unfortunately, he was a little old fashioned and strongly believed in traditional gender roles, and such things. I tried to avoid LGBT conversation with him, but near the end of our correspondence, his opinions were certainly made clear. It felt as though I was hiding a part of myself from him, which was just so.. foreign for our relationship. Ultimately, it led to a lot of stress, and after dealing with an especially ripe message of bigotry, I sent a departing response.

    Looking back now, I'm not sure what I would do differently. I think it's important to stand by the LGBT community, but I'm not sure if it's worth losing someone you deeply care about. Sometimes, when things are really bad, I'll type up a message, apologising for not being good enough to accept his opinions, for not being the friend I should have been. Begging for forgiveness, and for him to just message me back and tell me that everything is okay, that I'm okay. And then I'll delete it. No use crying over spilled milk.

    tldr; the internet roolz
     
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    Not my best friend but I met one of my really good friends on a bowling forum. He lives in Chicago and we met once but we talk everyday
     
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    Don't really like using the term best friend, but he basically is... Met him 9 years ago on an MMO. Had a couple of years when we didn't talk as much for various reasons, and now we're together pretty much 24/7 unless we have other commitments.