Interesting Topic P Brought Up

[ozymandias]

I don't have many friends on line or IRL.  I'm "close" to a few, but, I prefer to keep some online "friendships" at arms length.  It's my nature and I'v seen too many online "friendships" get flushed down the toilet for one reason or another.

[The_P]

It's official: T'Keyah's my new love interest. 

[Litigious]

With emphasis on "interest". 

[odeon]

I prefer having friends IRL, i don't think i could call many people i met online so far a "friend".

What kind of autistic freak are you?

[McGiver]

I'm not CLOSE with people online, but I consider them a part of a social/supoprt system in a way.

serious abandonment issues.  she likes/prefers to keep people at arms length....

Shows what you know.  I prefer to keep people hundreds or thousands of miles away without ever meeting them face to face.  So there.      

do you like to keep people close that you have met IRL?

[El]

do you like to keep people close that you have met IRL?

Not really.  It does happen, but I worry about the implications when it does- most that if I'm too close to somenoe, I'll get too comfortable and sloppy and not be on my best behavior and thus alienate them.  This is not unfounded- it's happened many a time.  It has yet to be seen whether I can outgrow it.  Not to be emo or anything.

[The_P]

romance is the best reason.

Not if the person you have intimate feelings for has already got someone else in mind. Online infatuation sucks.

[McGiver]

romance is the best reason.

Not if the person you have intimate feelings for has already got someone else in mind. Online infatuation sucks.

sounds like quitting words to me.

[The_P]

romance is the best reason.

Not if the person you have intimate feelings for has already got someone else in mind. Online infatuation sucks.

sounds like quitting words to me.

I wouldn't say that. It's not worth getting into an emotional knot with someone who's at a place where you cannot reach.

Best option? Find someone local if you want a sexual relationship. To do that, one needs to go outside more -- like myself.

[Pyraxis]

Well said.

[McGiver]

romance is the best reason.

Not if the person you have intimate feelings for has already got someone else in mind. Online infatuation sucks.

sounds like quitting words to me.

I wouldn't say that. It's not worth getting into an emotional knot with someone who's at a place where you cannot reach.

Best option? Find someone local if you want a sexual relationship. To do that, one needs to go outside more -- like myself.

you're right.

you gotta put your line in the water, or you aint going to catch the fish.

[The_P]

romance is the best reason.

Not if the person you have intimate feelings for has already got someone else in mind. Online infatuation sucks.

sounds like quitting words to me.

I wouldn't say that. It's not worth getting into an emotional knot with someone who's at a place where you cannot reach.

Best option? Find someone local if you want a sexual relationship. To do that, one needs to go outside more -- like myself.

you're right.

you gotta put your line in the water, or you aint going to catch the fish.

However, I don't think it's odd to start a relationship with someone online as long as you get to know them in public beforehand.

[McGiver]

i think that meeting someone online is a great way to break the ice.

just so long as the two people are geographically desireable.

[Peter]

i think that meeting someone online is a great way to break the ice.

just so long as the two people are geographically desireable.

I've got a 10 hour bus trip each way to see the person I'm going to see.   

[McGiver]

i think that meeting someone online is a great way to break the ice.

just so long as the two people are geographically desireable.

I've got a 10 hour bus trip each way to see the person I'm going to see.   

if you like to read then that may be construed as geographicallt desireable.