Has anyone made good friends online?

[Dwayne Johnson]

i had a decent group of friends here a while back, i wonder how they're doing sometimes since i don't talk to them at all anymore, but i have a nice group of friends from an old sports discord that i joined 2 years ago, we all still talk to eachother daily, i'd say they're some of my closest friends

 

[Tessie]

yes! my boyfriend was my long time online best friend, and we finally started to date almost 3 years ago after meeting. originally met him on an online multiplayer star wars game when we were both kids hes wonderful

 

[moonolotl]

My best friends are all online friends! I've known them for about 6 years now and its a group of about 5 people

 

[Seastar]

Just one who I met on an adoptable website back in 2012. We still talk to each other.

 

[The Peanut Butter Fish]

My only friends are on the internet! Most of them I met through TBT actually. I'm glad to have met them and have their company. I'm definitely a better person for it. They're just as real of friends as any other; I've never had that much trouble keeping up with them either.

 

[Nanotea]

I'm jealous of everyone being able to make close friends online. Maybe I have social anxiety. I tend to be talkative in the beginning but I get tired afterwards. I've had quite a few online groups, but when I decide to quit the game, I would disappear from the group. I’m like that with past jobs. I’d be super talkative with my coworkers and form strong friendships, but I don’t have the courage to hang out with them outside work. When I quit the job, I don't reach out to them at all.

 

[Blueskyy]

Yes. Way back like 11 years ago on a site I found people I considered friends even though I didn’t meet most of them except for 1. It’s like dating online but better. Btw I don’t recommend actually dating online without meeting someone in real life lmao.

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

I'm jealous of everyone being able to make close friends online. Maybe I have social anxiety. I tend to be talkative in the beginning but I get tired afterwards. I've had quite a few online groups, but when I decide to quit the game, I would disappear from the group. I’m like that with past jobs. I’d be super talkative with my coworkers and form strong friendships, but I don’t have the courage to hang out with them outside work. When I quit the job, I don't reach out to them at all.

I feel that. Especially the part with people irl at work. I feel like I can be talkative/nice to people at work or in class but asking them to hang out outside of that I feel like I'm invading their time(?) Being an adult doesn't help, as all your peers have stuff to do as well.

My problem online is I'm very nervous to talk to people 1 on 1. I'm not sure why, but I prefer small groups of people to chat with. I've tried discord and other chat groups but there were so many people it felt overwhelming. But when there's only one other person I run out of stuff for the conversation.

 

[Halloqueen]

I've managed to acquire close friends, some of the best I've ever had in life, via the Internet. A few from forums back in the day, a few who were their friends who became my friends, and then even some friends of those friends, and so on. My best friend and the most important non-familial person in my life is someone I met online, and was actually a friend of a friend. I've known and been in regular contact with some of them for around or even over a decade at this point. I feel very fortunate to have found them all, and I hope others can come across good people and forge such friendships as well.

 

[Chris]

Yes, many. Quite a few of them I've gone on to meet in real life across the UK and Germany. I originally met my partner on an internet forum.

 

[mocha.]

I met one of my best friends on a game called Maplestory, we met in real life back in 2011 and have been friends ever

I also have a small group of friends I met through Animal Crossing Twitter and we’re actually doing a little zoom get together this weekend!

 

[Noctis]

I have two online friends that I've met years and I mean years ago, I can't remember but I still keep in contact with them and we text daily or when necessary and I'm happy that were still friends. One day I hope we can mwet in real life and hangout. I had many many online friends that I wonder how they're doing today if they're still around, hopefully. They just somehow fell off the face of earth and never saw them again.

 

[Bread Kennedys]

I've met almost all of my current friends online, quite a few of them from TBT, in fact. I still talk to most of them on Discord today, I'm in multiple different friend groups on there. I find for me it's easier to talk to people online rather than irl since it's easier for me to socialize and be myself online.