[quote=@Song Book]
The point when people confuse my gender male. Then go on to say that I write like a male. I am sorry but I don't think females and males type in different fonts. 

Or judge you when your perfect day is a nice time inside playing -insert game- with friends you met online. 

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You can for one have friends online, thousands of people do. But there are still people who say that they aren't real friends, you haven't seen their face, they could be lying about everything. Or the Cliché 9 to me at least) ' Friends made online aren't true friends. ' So while saying that do you admit to using a online dating app? or site? Cause the entire purpose is to match interests; gamers can find other gamers online, roleplayers ect, Set up a date. Before we were friends we got to know each other. 

And for the the sake of people who say that you can never meet these online friends. Have you ever heard of Skype? or of the many other services in which you can talk to people from around the world? 

Etihw forsake those who still after given reason do not think that the friends I have made here; Kitty, booksmusicanime, 1charak2, fox and Rin -because typing everything out Is difficult-  are not real friends. I have shared some of the hardest points in my life so far and got help,
counseling. And they in turn Shared their own problems with me and everyone else in our group. We have bonded more over the internet in a year, than I did with actual people I go to school with. 
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Im not going to edit my post more than this to say in my rants I really don't care about making everything spick spam and all grammer perfect and I realtivly don't care if you give a flying fridge about it. 


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[quote=@DemonTongue]
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I agree with you on the internet friends thing. More people are meeting on the internet and becoming friends than meeting at bars or libraries or coffee shops or whatever have you. Saying that internet friends are not real friends is completely wrong in this day and age.

I actually started Skyping, then dating, then had a few very awesome vacations with, then moved to another state to live with someone that I met right here on this site :) Still happy as ever.
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[quote=@MsMellow]
and the kid lantern and i met on myspace and we are married with kids. lol
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OK, so I'm gonna go on and tell a like story, so it may be a bit of a post, anyways.


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For me, associating people on the internet has always been a hard thing. It might be due to that I'm Australian and for the most part people that I talk to online have usually been from Europe or the US/Canada. Explaining to others that you have friends online, especially since Australia was behind the 8ball with internet technology, was hard. I often had people I knew I'm Real life question and say it was stupid that an online friends can be classed as a real friend. 

I started my online life back at the EA games forum and was widely known there in the general discussion and graphics sections. I managed to make some really good friends, some that I talk to today almost 10 years later. One day however we had a forum member, that was a lovely girl, die in a car crash on her way to work. This girl started an online relationship with a friend of mine in Canada and as we got to know her it became parent that she had a pretty hard life. I was distraught. I knew this girl for a year or so and talked for her on a regular basis. We didn't know however about the dark truth about her identity.

Debi, never existed. This girl we came to knew, this girl that played with a mate's emotions was a fake. The girl we create to know was a creation of am older lady and she used the alias Debi to troll a whole fucken site. We found about her identity after a member by the name of Mau5 was doing some research and found no death records (mau5 was a genius and should be PM of the uk), and Dustin the now ex, was going through Facebook and saw friend suggestions for a girl that looked the same. It turned out that this lady was using her niece's identity as troll bate for us forum goers. 

Fast forward several years until a month ago, and I found out about another online death, this one real. A good mate of my by the name of Kyo had an aneurism in his sleep and died the day I was returning home from Japan. I knew Kyo for 2 years off an anime forum and this dude helped me with so much stuff. He had a vision about forming a group of friends known as the Individual 11s and was so passionate about that group that he went far beyond what he could in order to keep us as close knit as possible. He was the one that actually got me into roleplays. He had bad health though with allergies and suffered some bad migraine. The shit part about it was when I heard, I actually didn't feel that upset. I do not know why, but I was not upset about him dying. :\

I don't know exactly what I'm talking about and it's probably a whole heap of garbage because it's a bit early in the morning for me, but I know when it comes to online people I enjoy their company, I like to get to know them better, but due to past experiences and often feeling like everyone is half a globe away from me with no opportunity to meet, I can't help but feel distant from people. I have seen people, like you 3, that have met someone that knew from the net, but in my 10 years of being online I have never once even been given that chance to meet someone other than through digital voices and images. Try explaining to people around you that you know people online when all you can show is a phone full of messages, and the Australian culture is that you're a fucken moron for not being "one of the boys that drives a V8, drinks a case of beer, and has some Sheila as a girlfriend"

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/end rant that is probably more about living in Australia than Roleplaying...