Making good friends through WrongPlanet

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Well, for me, I sometimes see opportunities for friendships with other people on WrongPlanet. But because of geographical distance, and because I already have enough friends already, I tend to skip these opportunites or avoid it reaching such a level of friendship, with other members on the forums.
I always have kind of wanted the forums to be just a place for discussions with others, than a place for making friends from. If I wanted to make friends, I can think of places where it is easier to do it on than here, and with less effort too. Although having friends who have same problems as I do, like Asperger, might be an advantage - for me its unnecessary.
What about you?

I'm too timid to initiate things myself, but I've made friends through WP. It's how I met my best friend, and I also had another good friendship that started from here and lasted a little over a year. They both started when the other person sent me a PM wanting to chat, and eventually we got to the point where we exchanged phone numbers and continued communication that way. If it weren't for WP, I wouldn't have any friends.

Most all of the online friends I had in my life were people I met on various forums. I met my 1st girlfriend on a forum & I met my 2nd & current on here. I tend to have an easier time meeting people online & social media isn't my thing.

I don't mind if it happens.

But for myself, it's not a priority at the moment.

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For me, I thinkg making friends through forums shouldnt be more than just internet friends. I think it reaching a real life meeting between both of you is too extreme, unless we're talking about a dating site, and wrongplanet is not a dating site.
On a dating site you are supposed to be meeting up irl, on wrongplanet no one is supposed to meet up irl, but I understand it has already happened here and might happen in the future, and thats okay if it works out for people, and if they are interested.
A lot of times its just like the same result as a dating site, to some extent.
On a dating site, you can meet a woman who on the dating site said she was 23, married with kids, but when you finally meet her you realize she is actually 48 and divorced. People who have shame of themselves wouldnt reveal this until you meet up, and on the Internet its very easy to become someone you're not and nobody finds out.
So, I think the same thing can happen on WrongPlanet, kinda.
You can find a very good friend from here, they tell you about themselves and you tell about yourself, and when you both finally meet you realize you are a lot more different than you both thought before and become very disappointed, and some of the things like age, location, are turns out to be lies.
If you have interest in making friends from WrongPlanet, my best advice would be, keep it virtual and never agree to meet up irl. However, some people wont listen to that and still want to meet up irl and thats okay. Let them do what they want to do.

it doesn't happen bc (my 2cs) there's more sockpuppetry going on then you'd imagine,
for its (cultural and diagnostical) americanisation purpose and propaganda

and diagnosis supremacy
- i can not believe a lot of the "diagnosed" being real
it's a joke, isn't it?
bigpharma, bigpsych, big biotech and the wolly ghost:
darpa? http://scientistsascitizens.org/2014/10 ... ht-creepy/