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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
You make some good points.
In particular about being friends with people online that you wouldn't even look at twice irl, it can be fascinating who is really close with who when you take all of the smoke and mirrors away.
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Mhm-hm. But the thing is so many people (especially the more socially-introverted/reserved) show far more of their true selves online/in writing in general than in spoken conversation in-the-flesh so sometimes being close to someone online means that you really are authentically-close to them. For a number of reasons (some of which are actually perfectly-healthy, if a little bit of a nuisance when it comes to concrete self-assertion and things like that) some people just don’t show much of their true colours to anyone in-person (and if they do the other person has to be extremely, extremely close to them for that assertive comfort to even begin to materialise in the flesh) so rely on the Internet to get their social feed and connections. I don’t think anything’s wrong with it, tbh.