Real and Online friends in a conversation?

I don't really have friends--*shot*

No, but seriously, I only have two IRL friends. I mean, two IRL people I consider friends. Both have an MSN, and yeah. One actually talks to people online the way I do. So we Skype with her friends sometimes, she'll Skype with mine. And I don't mind inviting her to MSN conversations. The other, however. I don't have a problem with inviting her to my convos, but she's just generally uninterested.

I don't have a problem with it because, honestly? I'm more myself online than I am offline, at times. And if I can't open up to my irl friends the way I can with my online friends then I'm the type of person who would really rather them not be my friends at all. I'm too emotional a person to have some kind of irl/icl persona, with my true friends.​

 

This is a cool idea. I would probably do it with my two closest friends irl whok ow just how online obsessed I am. X)

But in Voxli it might get a bit too awkward as we'd all talk about killing Chris or Kelly's diLdos~

 

I just thought of another occasion. I met some online friends while a real-life friend was with me. They got along well, bought each other a beer etc. I like that day in general. I might get the chance to redo it one day, but not this year.

No. It's none of your business really.

 

It isn't, you are right. Just my curious mind at work, can't seem to help myself.

 

This.
Just a whole lot of this.

Most of my irl friends think that the idea of having online friends is weird. There are a couple who I think are ok with it, but for the most part I wouldn't feel overly comfortable mingling them unless I knew they would get along very well. But still, the couple of times I have invited them into a convo together, there was that underlying feeling of awkwardness, even with them having the same interests and stuff.

So I wouldn't immediately jump on the bandwagon, but I'm not completely opposed to the idea either, as long as both parties are ok with it.

 

For the most part I'm against it. Online friends are no less friends than real friends, but it's different types of friends, and the two types have no business meeting.

 

You should get around to doing it. It's nice to have an online friend that you really trust and like, meet another trustable and likable friend in real life. It also says a lot about you when it comes to picking and choosing friends. If both online and real life friend get along then your good to go. ^^

 

I agree completely. It's hard for me to separate the two because my real friends are also online. And the way I can look at the world is every stranger you see is just a friend or family you haven't come to know.

 

It depends on the person. I want to say, "Friends are friends," but we all make different friends for different reasons. My offline and online social circles tend to keep themselves naturally isolated, but I doubt there would be much friction between the two. If anything, the friction would lie in offline friends seeing the weird stuff I do online. Really, in my experience, the only reason I wouldn't recommend adding offline friends to, say, an MSN convo is because... well... they're boring. A lot of people don't know how to translate what makes them interesting or funny to the internet. It's also intimidating to throw them in with a bunch of people you know but they don't, whether it's a chat room or a party.

 

I've done that myself before.

Shortly after I joined the online PC / PS2 servers for PSU, my friend was over, and I just happened to be online at the time, and out of the blue, I get the idea to have my friend introduce himself to the party of randoms I was playing with. I even had him type things for me, such as "Gather for buffs" and "Thank you".

 

Very true, a lot of people are very different people online, some tend to express themselves more or "talk" in a way they wouldn't in person. I've been in chat-rooms with online friends and invited an offline friend and it was a pretty dull conversation and i decided i would never do it again, there was a deep sense of awkwardness that did not make me any more inclined to try it again.

 

I, for one, see it as an okay thing to do...As long as you don't act TOO much different from your online/offline life.

I myself think that I act quite different online...Which...I actually do. In real life, I believe I express myself more, and act alot less serious...And I think I speak in a more intelligent way on the internet...But, ya know, it's just with personal thinking.