The Importance Of Online Friendships

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Online Friendships
The Internet in this day and age is larger than ever. A person can connect with someone from across the world with just the click of a button and this technology has caused people to not only connect, but form close relationships with people they would have never had the chance to meet before. This raises the question, is befriending people you meet online safe? Talking to people you meet over the Internet can actually be beneficial to many teens and, especially in shy or anxious teens, these relationships should be encouraged. It is easy to find others with common interests online, and starting these relationships can easily lead to meaningful friendships and a support system right at your fingertips. Many lives, including
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When I first made my Tumblr account back in 2013, I would see all these accounts having fun with their online friends. Sending cute asks, funny threads riddled with inside jokes, it was something I wanted to experience for myself. I finally had my chance a year later. My favorite youtubers, AmazingPhil and danisnotonfire, made a sim on their gaming channel, and the fandom went wild making blogs for different objects around its house. We had a big skype chat that eventually dwindled down to seven people, but those seven people were some of my closest friends. That Skype chat meant so much to me; it was my escape, a place where I really felt like I …show more content…
It didn 't matter that we only knew each other through the Internet; we trusted each other. That is also where I met my best friend. After a year of being in the group, I became even closer with two girls, one from England and one from Finland. We were inseparable, and I wouldn 't have traded them for the world. There was even more trust than before. We had regular skype calls and stayed up late texting about anything and everything. I even knew some of their real life friends; we exchanged Instagrams and snapchats, and I even became good friends with my Finnish friend’s friends. However, just like offline friends, not every friendship lasts. Offline friends have fights and the same can happen with online friends. Fairly recently, after a summer full of constant arguments, my friend from England and I got in a bad fight, and I ended the friendship. My offline friend even told me the situation reminded her of when she had to break off from her old offline best

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