It’s about the same for me. A lot of the people I work with and used to work with I’m still in contact with but exclusively online, and some of the folks I met online I’ve met in real life, so I’ve always kept it at a kind of equilibrium.
If I'm talking about only people I hangout with, it's probably more online, however, if I'm including everyone I interact with and have been on good terms with there's an innumerable amount of people I'm friends with both online and in real life. Some of these friendships blossom, some are steady, and some peter out... but even if we aren't friends anymore I don't really hold any malice towards anyone, regardless of how the friendship ended. I love getting to know people and I'm a people-person, so any chance to make a new friend is good with me!
I probably have the same amount of friends online and irl, but for the simple fact that the only 2 people I trust almost completely are irl, I'd have to say I have more irl friends. I KNOW a lot of people & talk to them online and irl, but I don't really TALK with them. It's mostly surface level & the occasional rant post online that's open to everyone, not just specific people.
I'm pretty much a hermit, so definitely more online. I have a couple of pokemon go friends that are a hybrid of online/irl. When they play, they'll call me to join raids, and we meet if i leave my cave and take a trip to visit family in that area. I rarely leave the cave, though.
After some bad experiences with irl people (it's shocking how awful people can be, really), and my situation, I much prefer the hermit life.
If you asked me this 2 years ago, I would say online because I barely left the house and was a social disaster in high school. But over the past year and a half since starting college I've found a friend group that I really get along and enjoy hanging with. I've also distanced myself from a lot of people I previously talked to online because I realized I was ignoring how not so great of friends they were just because I wanted anyone to talk to so I didn't feel alone.
I have more friends in person compared to online. I am a bit older than some people on here and once you get to be a certain age you your friendship circle tends to get smaller and smaller and the need to have a lot of friends becomes less and less. It's about quantity not quality. You don't want friends you can't trust/can't be honest with you and you don't want friends that don't have the same type of beliefs in certain areas as you.
