Internet relationships

[julix]

I am fairly new to the world of internet forums and relationships.  I would love feedback from all of you about how you all have/feel about your internet friends.  For example...........I have grown really close to several people that I have never met, nor do I know their "real" names.......yet I have confided in, shared, laughed and even cried with some of them.  I am a very caring and emotional person(just FYI) and it is something I am I guess trying to figure out............what are your thoughts???


BTW.........I think because I am so caring it is hard for me to be "casual" about my feelings........does this make sense at all???

[14th Colony]

Interesting topic Julix.  I have been through a lot with close internet friends over the years and I will have perhaps much to say about this after I give it some heavy ponderance and reflection. I shall return.

[Taranis]

Intresting I will think about this and answer tomorrow    

[zankoku]

Over the last 4 yeas I have developed a friends ship with some very nice people from around the world. We all share two interest. The love of a particular show and the love of writing. Three of them have helped me learn to write better and actually beta'd my stories. I have encouraged and beta'd stories from 3 others who kept saying that "someone should write" and I turned it back on them and told them to do the writing which they did. I have co written 3 stories with one person and am writing another with her at this moment. I co wrote a couple of more with another and we write using each other's original characters. One of the guys shares another passion and that is a love of old firearms and swords. (5 of the women and I own swords).

Sometimes there is a danger. One person who I convinced to write did so on a couple of stories and then cowrote a couple with another guy I encouraged a year later I found out (she told me) that she was 12 when she wrote the story. I knew the guy was 48 and neither or us knew her age. It was only with working together and gaining trust that she told us her real name and I never told anyone.

I met two ladies on line on a group and when they found that my wife and I were flying into SF, they picked us up and took us to our destination ( saving us 50 bucks).

You can make some good people on line if you use some common sense IMHO.

Julix is the only one here that I have been talking to by instant message and it has been great.

Then there were two people that I thought were reasonable people who I now know have real mental issues. I pray for them.

Jim

[Taranis]

Internet Friendships.

Over the last year or so i have joined a number of Fourm in the Sci-fi Theme some I posted a few messages and found that the responces where not worth the return visit.

The friends I have made in Laurette site and in Colonial Fleets are for me a double edge sword, On the one hand the people I have meet are smart clever people with a passion for the show or idea of the show/film.

Many of these member/friends have encouraged me to rediscover my artistic side , that in CGI and I love it. others in the areas of writing and posting my first fanfiction. which is also cool.

The other side is I will most likly never meet these people as you are (for me) on the other side of the world mostly the US. Canada. some are a little closer in the UK. and that is the hardest pill to take that we will never meet sit in the same room and to talk (something I am good at - I listen well also) well that all I have at the moment but I may post another later

[Breea]

I have thought long and hard about this..I have friends here and also on the internet that have become as close , if not family to me. Jul leads that group at the head of the list.. She is one who I can and do confind in and would share anything I know.
  Others,some have greeted me with open arms and i have felt welcome and others, have said things that have hurt and is hard to forgive..but if we are truely family as we like to call ourselves and believe this with all of our hearts.. then we have to realise that as in any family there are times when we will fight but I would never trade a single one of you for anything in this or any worls.
  I'm always here or wondering  around somewhere..if you need me..I will never close a door on a member of my family..you note that I didn't say just internet family... I love all of you and would gladly give my life for you if I had to..
  Love is what we each have for one anthore..so just hollar if you need to talk, etc..I'm here.
Breea

[Warrior]

I've had, and still have, wonderful online relationships/friendships with people I've met online.

I've been lucky in that I got to meet quite a few from the BG fandom at Galacticon.

But there is one special person that I had a friendship with for a number of years on the web. We made arrangements for, and actually did, meeting.

It was in 1997 in Las Vegas that we met.

That was the first person I ever met from the web.

Unfortunatly, she passed away a year later

I still miss her to this day.

[julix]

Thanks for all the answers, you guys are all wonderful.  I may be posting more on this subject.....thinking.


Warrior,
I am sorry for your loss hun((((((((((((((Warrior)))))))))))))

[Taranis]

Sorry to hear about that warrior, but nice to meet her I would say.  

Friends are hard to find these days and good friends even harder. Guess I   have been lucky.

Cheers to you all

[Warrior]

The website I did in her memory-

Cathy's Tribute

It plays midi music files, so if your browser acts up, that's probably why.

Good ol Geocrappy and their ads too....

[Taranis]

Nice site very touching and giving the subject of this thread very worth while adding .. thanks

[julix]

that site is wonderful Darrell............
It is nice to see that she is not lost to those who care for her.........what a wonderful thing to do for her