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Originally Posted by Redway
Yeah, I hear you. Sometimes it’s easier to befriend someone online after so long if it had been in your head up until then that they were some sort of weirdo based on fleeting interactions they were put in where they didn’t really feel that comfortable in in the first place (coupled with the fact that people like that are some of the types who express themselves much more openly online than in-the-flesh). Some people still live in the dark ages about them even when it’s obvious that they’ve become cool (even assuming that they were ever anything but cool) and choose not to accept their F.b. requests/follow them on Insta. but ultimately that’s their loss. The internet’s a good place to connect with people from all walks of life and that includes people you vaguely-knew from back in the day who you might’ve thought were a bit weird (not necessarily heinous by any means) for whatever biased, strange reason. When ostracism of ‘person X’ (or at the least people just ignoring them because they don’t remember them seeming interesting to them in person) becomes old news and so-2007 (or whatever), it’s old news. I’m the last person to let face-to-face misunderstandings and mistreatments carry over online years and years and years later. People evolve.
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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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