Is It Possible to Make Real Friends Online?

I work in church. Specifically, I work at Church Online of Life.Church. I heard that some people want to know what online church looks like. In most cases, they only want to know if it is genuine. Most people are learning how to learn from pastors on-line. But they would like to know: Can you find community, accountability and real friends online? I know what you can do

In the mid-1990s I was a computer room at my university. This is the initial stage of the Internet. E-mail is still fairly new, the site has just started to develop, and AOL is getting more and more popular. And Wi-Fi? No this is all dialing

A friend introduced me an online role playing game. There is neither graphics nor audio. Purely text based, it is wonderful to connect people by sharing words on the screen. I made friends online all over the country and with some friends all over the world. When we talk about games, we also talked about real life. We know each other, we talk about where we live, what we are studying at work, and about music and movies we like. After all, it goes beyond the surface dialogue. We shared the fight, asked for guidance, and offered support

Over time, even if I expanded to a new online communication model I kept in touch with these friends. On September 11th, I thought about The_Man. It's just his screen name, but he is one of my real friends. He lives in New York, dozens of people in the online community jumped into the game to check him. A few hours later they finally logged in and let us know that he was fine and we were relieved.

I have never met many friends on the Internet, but we are still acquainted with each other and I am more concerned about each other.

This is just one example of how we gather even if we are far apart. Many of us have never seen each other during these years, but we still know each other and care about each other more. This is a real community

Every day happening in Church Online is like this. People from all over the world will meet, connect and change the friendship that changes life. We may live in different cities, countries, continents, but even if there is a distance we will not prevent building a deep relationship. Let's laugh and joke together. We cried together and prayed. Support, encourage and challenge each other

God uses the church online to change the world. People far from him are experiencing his love in a powerful way for friends they encounter in these online interactions. Since this is a true global community, our lives are different (and better). These are my friends, I recommend you to join us.

As you can see, online friends are as valuable as real-life friends, friends at IRL each have its own strengths and weaknesses. As long as there is common sense, you can earn value worth by being friends online. As long as you communicate well, please make sure that the people you speak are ready to build a sincere and lifelong friendship. Maybe one day, this online friend will be your true life friend.

Rather than making friends in real life, there are many reasons for online friends to look like people. First of all, online friends can easily make, online friends you can chat with just going to a website where people can become friends online. However, making friends in real life is not that simple. For example, when you first go to a new job or a new school, people are always afraid that they are judged by the random people they see each day. This makes this person hard to make friends. If your colleague has a terrible first impression on you, you may be excluded even from the group before you know each other. Therefore, it is difficult to find a person who says, "Work is fun and everyone is very friendly."

I know what you are thinking. "Friends on the Internet are not real friends, they may be old and perverted, it is not safe to bring friends online." To be honest, I do not know. I have friends, I know online, so I am more frequent than my real friends. They understand better and make less judgment. Because of your weight and appearance, they will not like you. They first meet the middle people. They match your character, but the appearance does not match. I think that this is a big problem in today's society: people immediately judge the speed of others by their appearance and the rumors they heard. Many teenagers do not like to go to school. This is very troublesome. But when they got home, they opened their laptops, went to that website, and talked to their online friends. It may be a video chat with them for hours. Netizens is a real friend