Monday, November 12, 2012
Cyberspace friendships
I have made a few friends online, and based on our friendships I can honestly say that I feel like my f2f friends are more important to me. I chat with my online friends, but only if I have free time, which I hardly ever do, but with my f2f friends I find time to talk, or meet or even chat. I am that type of a person who cannot really trust a cyber friend with personal information, and I cannot talk with them about personal life much, in comparison to my f2f friends, I tend to trust them much more, because meeting them in reality had build trust between us. I cannot say that cyberspace friendships do not work, because I know that for many people they do work, and some people even end up marrying a person who they met online, but for me it is a little bit more different. I don't know if that has anything to do with me being raised in a family where there was no computer, and I was 25 when I got Facebook account, or if it is because I am more of a f2f friendship type of person.
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I have the same feeling about face to face friends. It is definitely easier to talk to them and also quicker! Your face to face friends will pick up the phone and if they don't they will call you back at a reasonable time. For the most part anyway. This isn't always guaranteed with online relationships. It could be days until someone emails you back. It definitely makes a difference on what you say in an online relationship. I hadn't thought about this before, but it can really make a difference when you are going through a tough time. I've had a facebook for a long time, but I still value my face to face interactions more than the ones online. Also-- it makes it difficult to be completely open online when more and more companies are creating clauses about social media.
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