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Internet Friendships 101

Everything you need to know about having an online friendship!

Colleen Garrison
Oct 04, 2016
Dean College
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Internet Friendships 101
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Today I would like to talk about a little something called internet friends.

For those of you know are reading this and personally know me, this might be a little interesting to you.

An internet friend is exactly what it sounds like...a friend that you meet on the internet.

I first want to say that in order to make an internet friend, it must be done safely. I make my friends on twitter, and when I first start talking to someone I like to trade Instagram and Snapchat usernames. This allows me to look and see that they are a real person. I get to see that they are not a catfish and I get to see their face. I also look them up on FaceBook and scroll through their pictures on twitter to see their selfies and make sure they are who they claim to be. I have never run into an incident where I suspected that someone I was talking to was not who they say they were. I do not go onto random chat websites and begin talking to the first person I come in contact with. I also don't give out any personal information. For example, my friends know what state I live in, but they do not have my address or even know the town I live in.

I am really close with all of my internet friends and I think we have a really special bond. I think this is because it's not like we get to see each other in person like we do with our real life friends. We also share things in common, for example, I made all of my friends by finding people who like the same singers that I do.

I hope that by reading this article, you don't think that I abandon my real life friends for my online ones. I still talk to, text, and spend time with my real life friends!

I think the idea of internet friends is really cool because I have friends that live all over the United States of America, and I even have one friend who lives in Canada. I have friends that live as close to me as 1 hour away and as far from me as 42 hours (yes I looked it up. Oregon is 2,894 miles from New York!).

I think that as long as you don't ditch your real life friends and as long as you make online friends safely, having internet friends can be really awesome.

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