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[T00000]

no offense or anything, but i think those of you who form relationships online with people you've never met before and little "online" social cliches are extremely pathetic. yes i'm talking about those of you in cb who are constantly on and constantly trying to make friends with people you don't even know. i can bet my ass over half of you aren't the same offline as you are on.

[queen]

no i dont know her.  but her username is my_papaya.  the only one i talk to online from cb is trish, but i wouldn't consider her a friend but i believe we both have an understanding of basically the hypocrisy many people here posess and an understanding of our personalities.  i dont talk to her about life and love and all that friends do... at any rate, the dictionary defines a friend as "A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. "  would you trust someone you "knew" online if you've never even met them before...?

i don't trust a lot of people both online and offline.

i don't consider anyone here my "friend", but more of a "buddy" haha.. (hence the creation of the buddylist)... however, i HAVE made friends with people online in the past, and they turned out to play a pretty big role in my life. yes, i have trusted them, and they trusted me. i was there when they had family/financial issues, and vice versa. i was there when they got kicked out of the house, when they had to evacuate their town due to a fire, when they graduated, etc etc etc. we even texted each other as if we lived in the same city. i don't know if any of those would fit in your definition of friendship, but they do in mine.

and of course, as in every friendship (both on&offline), there came a time when we just stopped communicating. i hear from them every now and then, and my best friend (offline) talks with them almost every day... i guess you can say we "moved on" with our separate lives. those friendships were online, but if they had been offline, it would probably have ended the same way. the point i'm trying to make is, some people believe offline + online = same thing... there just happens to be a visual boundary.