Has anyone made good friends online?

[MyLifeIsCake]

There's always the people I think about where you met/talked to a few times, but either lost contact or never met again. I think especially in online communities where there's a lot of people with similar interest, it's easy to meet friendly people, but harder to keep up connections.

I've made friends with people online in the past but one of us either stopped being active online and it kind of fizzled out. I guess I'm feeling really nostalgic on the topic right now especially during the current circumstances.


Anyway, have you met people online that you consider good friends? Where did you meet them?

 

[Lady Timpani]

I’ve been feeling kind of nostalgic like this myself! I’ve met some friends through various video gaming sites over the years, but sadly I’ve lost contact with almost all of them. There’s one in particular I’ve been thinking a lot about lately— we met on Animal Crossing Community, and I’ve been thinking about signing in to my old account there just to message him on the off chance he still goes there (it’s a long shot lmao). But unfortunately I changed the password like five years or so ago when I checked on the account on a whim, but I also neglected to change the email address associated with the account, and now I’ve forgotten the new password. :/

It’d be great to get back in touch with him, if I could, but it is what it is. I just hope he’s doing well, wherever he is!

 

[leohyrule]

I met a group of friends online through a discord server when I was playing Heroes of the Storm (its like league of legends). My friends live really far away, but we've been friends for about two years. There are a few people that I was friends with who I lost contact with, but the group of 2 or 3 friends that I got we still talk to and play video games with. One of our friends even make a trip out to see us and my other friends who live in the northeast which was great and really cool to meet him.
I've also met one person so far that I'm friends with on animal crossing.

 

[namiieco]

Honestly, no. I don't tend to make online friends because it doesn't feel secure and it's hard to tell what kind of person someone actually is behind the screen. Despite being shy and introverted, I much prefer meeting and making friends irl.

 

[Soigne]

yeah! i've got two really close friends i met online, one from an animal crossing forum about 12 years ago and another on a web game about 8 years ago. i talk to them both every day.

i've had a few online friends disappear..... maisie.....if you're out there

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

ive met two of my online friends in person! they were both in london (one lives there and one came to visit) and i now know that london is one of my least favourite places ever but it was nice to see them regardless. ive lost contact with one of them but the other one is my only friend right now (i have talked to lots of people online that i wouldve liked to talk to more but my life has been very difficult atm) ive known him for like 5 years and he has stuck with me through everything. if the world is doing okay by august i will be going to the netherlands to visit him.

 

[Saylor]

Yeah, one of my best friends growing up was someone I met online on another gaming community. We talked every day for years and then kind of had a falling out when I was in high school and I hadn't heard from her since then, but she wound up getting back in touch with me a couple of summers ago. I'm really glad she did that because she had always been on my mind but I don't think I would've ever worked up the nerve to reach out to her myself. I think we're both pretty different people now and we don't talk all the time like we used to, but we text sometimes, and it's nice to still have that connection with someone from my past.

I was also really close with someone I met on here. I really like talking to people online and making friends with people I can play games with and stuff but I am kind of hesitant now about reaching out to people I meet online because of what's happened in the past. It'd be nice to get closer to some of the people I talk to that I like but I'm not very good at making that happen anymore.

 

[aericell]

I've been thinking about this lately too!

I made a few friends on here some years ago when I was really active (mostly in the basement). I was in a couple Skype groups and even exchanged other social media outside of TBT. I also talked to other k-pop fans pretty often back then when there were less of us, I'd like to think we were also friends I actually befriended someone and we clicked really quickly and they became one of my best friends for some years. I've never met any of them irl though.

Life & personal issues got in the way and I kinda closed myself off for some time so I don't really talk to any of them anymore. I'm honestly not sure who remembers me and I've always been pretty hesitant about reaching out to people in general whether I know them or not, irl or online but I do miss talking to people ;w;

 

[Corrie]

Definitely have in the Pokemon fansite community. It was a blast! The community has pretty much died so all those friends have disappeared.

 

[theravenboys]

I made so many close friends on forums in like 2004-2005 but I’ve lost contact with all of them. All those forums shut down so I have no idea how to get in contact with them now, I miss them Back then most of us didn’t have social media, we used stuff like Yahoo messenger or MSN messenger and I figure those have shut down too so... :/ I’m also Facebook friends with someone I met on a forum around 2008 but we don’t really talk.

However, I’ve made some great friends on Twitter. Some of them I’ve been friends with since 2012. I also met one of my best friends on a site that connects you with a random person to chat with back in 2011. We clicked instantly and I gave her my Tumblr, and then we eventually moved from Tumblr to Twitter and we’re still friends! It’s amazing how the site just randomly connected me to her and we ended up being friends for 9 years now.

 

[frogslime]

I met some friends on a Minecraft app called Skinseed. I was 9(?) at the time, and one of them was 13. I wonder what he's up to.

 

[Beanz]

no not really I met a some people on discord cuz of Minecraft but I don’t think we’re friends.
I also met this really funny guy on roblox but he unfriended me because he wanted to clear his friend list.

 

[Cancoon]

Me and a few of my middle school friends would frequent Gaia online and actually met some people there.
2 older girls stuck out and we would talk to them quite frequently.

Fast forward to now, my irl friends are in different states but we keep in touch, the two older girls still keep in touch with me the two of them moved in together despite having met online and lived in different states and they will be getting married soon.

 

[Aneesh1729]

Wish i could, but then again I’m not online that much

 

[ApolloJusticeAC]

i've met some of my best friends on this website, and i have to thank TBT for letting me have the privilege of meeting them

 

[Midoriya]

I have experienced both the bad and good sides of this. I’ve actually lost two of my online friend groups in the past. One because of drama and we fell out of touch with each other. The other because I didn’t realize they were actually toxic people until it was too late. The internet and everything that comes with it has had a profound impact on my life, in some ways negative and some positive. I have now been friends with people from here for over a year in our Discord server that revolves around anime. Unlike my past online friend groups I don’t see myself splitting ways with them anytime soon. They’re some of the coolest people I know. This isn’t to say I don’t have real life friends or things going for me in real life. My best friend of nine years now I actually met in real life and we are about to graduate from different universities. I have also been acquainted with many more people from my school and people that my family knows. Honestly can’t say I would still be around without the support of so many people. I am very thankful and humble about it all.

I also think the fact that I have been friends with people from here for so long is a testament to the wholesomeness and excellence of the TBT community in and of itself.

 

[Loubelle]

I made a bunch of good friends on Splatoon 2, who I eventually got in contact with on Discord. A few people I have stopped talking to, or rather they stopped talking to me for reasons I'm not sure why, but some of my more recent friends (from the past 6 months or so) I have talked to on a pretty regular basis in a small discord server :3 Also, some of my friends from New Leaf i talked to kind of on and off for a few years, however, they got Discord and we have talked much more frequently especially because of New Horizons :>

 

[Dormire]

All of my close friends are online. I have so little IRL friends but at least all my friends have been with me for 10+ years even though we drift apart time to time.

My longest friendship always starts on Ragnarok Online so I get really teary-eyed and sentimental when I get to play the game again.

 

[Xara]

all of my close friends are online - my best friend, bella, is an online friend and i find that i have better connections with people online as i’m more ongoing there than irl ;w;

 

[LadyDestani]

I've had one really close online friend. We met many years ago back when the internet was still new and AOL was a thing. I tried out an AOL chatroom for the first and last time ever. I hated it, but as soon as I logged out of the chatroom this guy pinged me through AOL Instant Messenger. He had been in the chatroom and wanted to talk to me. We clicked and built up a pretty close friendship through the years. We always chatted through IM until that went away, then we used email to communicate regularly. But after more than a decade of speaking to each other multiple times a week, he moved on to social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) and stopped checking in via email regularly. I have never wanted to be a part of social media so we eventually lost contact.

We never met in person, but he was still a significant part of my life. He came out as gay to me first before coming out to any of his IRL friends or family. He helped me through a particularly difficult break-up. I still think about him from time to time and hope he's doing well.