Yeah I agree with all this pretty much... though the only people I really want to have stuff on Facebook for are my family members that I don't often see... I can put pictures up so they see that I'm alive and well. As far as social life... perhaps to make friends, but in the long run I don't think the relationships can last unless they move to offline... even then some of those relationships don't last either unless nurtured... such is life

This post was last modified: 11-12-2007 01:41 PM by Lost in the Oilfield.

some of those relationships don't last either unless nurtured, such is life

agree =X
and online or real life friends, well maybe it's like whether you are a vegetarian or not, it's just a preference.

i used the excuse that i have to be online often to show my parents i m still alive, but yea i admit i am kind of addicted to msn coz -_- well you see those people online talking or not talking, you are not so 'alone'. the moment i off the compy i d be scared. =/
it's possible to make good friends online, but other than that like, meet your soulmate online, is well... *recall my past o.O *
anyway that's why i want to travel around and keep myself busy. xD
meet new people and give myself more confidence, see the world more thoroughly before coming to a conclusion. after all who knows what will happen next, the old woman you d help might be your future wife/hubby's mom o.o *dreams* it's all better than sitting at home waiting for another 'reply' that will take ages or forever to appear.

I'm not sure why I was satisfied with the Internet for my social needs, but I became more dependent on it than my real life...and now I'm entirely dependent on it. I can blame the internet for my social problems....while the other kids were playing outside, I would be inside playing multiplayer games with all kinds of people far away, but I was less concerned about the social aspect of it, I would be more concerned about fun. Now though the internet can't satisfy my needs now and the more I think about it, I really do regret becoming attached to it.

I might be overly bitter, but I don't think any social relationship online is worth getting too attached to because it is intangible, there are no physical strings that bind you, anything can disappear abrubtly. I've spent a large part of my life online, thousands of hours without a doubt, and many of them interacting with others online and the memories of them are just as fait as childhood memories. We aren't real people talking to each other, just shadows of real people.

Its not a good idea to rely on the internet as your social substitute because it can replace the need to actualy go outside and make friends. Its important to go out and atempt to meet people and interact face to face in order to make real relationships because once you get dependant on the internet it can be really dificult to make real friends and will make things harder in life. Unless you are actualy planning to meet and attempt to form a real relationship you shoul not get atached to someone online

no shadow here. & i know alot of ppl who r even farther away from being a shadow than i m
guess...
it all depends on how honest we choose 2b

If you're too honest for your own good you'll hurt yourself. I've seen it happen and it has happened to me. My point is don't think about the person behind the monitor because to them, you might just be a screen name when anything goes wrong. Don't get too emotionally attached and don't try to enter/interfere with their real life.

owww boy sorry but i have another opinion on that,,,,yes i did get attached to some people through the Internet and those people mean everything to me,,,,never did i find a truer friendship then on the Internet we exchange and we communicate and help each other alote,,,,yes i have chosen to be myself and it did pay off,,,here in person i have 1 friend that really took the time to want to know the real me,,and i will be 40 in January,,,yes it is true that i am very shy and have a hard time communicating sometimes but it don't mean,,that i don't feel just like everyone else

one of those close friends is your very own bluey,,,so yes we can find true friendship though Internet

Gotta agree with mimi38 here.
Well actually, I think it really depends on who you're talking to online. Some people are honest, some aren't..it's really up to you to decide how much you want to or can believe them. Sometimes you can tell they're honest..sometimes their honesty may be vague but you can always keep talking to that person to find out..somehow.

Besides that, I feel that interacting with another person through the internet is so much easier than even interacting to your friends. Of course that also depends on what kind of person you're talking to..not everyone can tolerate just anyone.
So..I think it is possible for the internet to satisfy my social needs. Especially if I can't get much social satisfaction in real life.

I think it's possible to have real friends on the internet, especially when those friends help you to get socialized again in "real life", which is happening to me right now.

Glad to hear that Dutch