[Mystic Mock]

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.

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.

[Redway]

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.

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.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I'm guessing those kind of ones that are clearly about a particular person without actually naming them so kind of like :

"Sick of doing favours for ungrateful people who are always too busy when you need help"

Originally Posted by Josy

Like posting insults and comments on fb clearly directed at someone but not naming the person

Originally Posted by parmnion

What a load of horse****. Youve dug LT out for no reason thaelast 2 weeks...so I would therefore pop you up at the 1st person...certainly not the past

Aw right got you