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“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…
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

or when you realize you’re both weirdos. 🤷🏼‍♂️
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

or you realize that you're both the same (or compatible) type of weirdos!
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

in reply to Taylor Lorenz

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.
in reply to Taylor Lorenz

everyone is a weirdo to someone out there. We need a better metric!