[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I'll always try to have my friends back, whether it be online or irl.

However if it's proven that they've done something really heinous then they've lost me as a friend.

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.