“I think anytime you have an online internet friendship and then you actually meet the person and you both realize that you’re not weirdos, you realize that connection is real” 💕 nytimes.com/2022/12/21/style/w…
the thing about most text-based communications and thus friendships is that much of the social fluff and filters are being stripped away, leaving only the essence of the other person. Their mental smell.
If you are able to connect on that level, you often mesh much more deeply than in-person would ever allow you to. Friendship spanning oceans are just as natural as ones spanning decades of age as ones spanning the starkest cultural divides.
I'm an avid meet-internet-friends-in-real-life advocate and about 1 out of 10 times it turns out the other person IS a weirdo and it's super awk but it's ok.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •the thing about most text-based communications and thus friendships is that much of the social fluff and filters are being stripped away, leaving only the essence of the other person. Their mental smell.
If you are able to connect on that level, you often mesh much more deeply than in-person would ever allow you to. Friendship spanning oceans are just as natural as ones spanning decades of age as ones spanning the starkest cultural divides.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •from Xbox live to social media I’ve made some pretty good friends online.
I would have never met them if these platforms didn’t exist. Crazy tk think about
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