Is your best friend an online friend?

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I have come to realize that at the moment, my best friend is an online friend. She is from this forum, but I forgot her name (not that I would say it here even if I did remember her name).

I think I feel closer to her than my own family members. We have not met in real life.

So, is your best friend an online friend?

I am not close with online friends, but I hope to get closer to a few here. I've been talking to bradt4ever and chrissyrun briefly. Now I'm in contact with Chummy (i think this is his online username)

I do not have any friends. My best acquaintance is in real life.

My best friends are off line, but im trying to make acquaintance with some aspies online, i feel they are more honest and truthful, and i am on an anti social phase, since my best friend stopped making contact as he got "in love" with a girl, so i just erased him... friends don't act like that...

I used to do "online friends", and many of them DID become friends in real life. Nowadays, I no longer pursue online friendships because I've maxed out my friend roster at 1 fiancee, two close friends, and a circle of acquaintances that I play games like D&D and Dominion with, or go out with occasionally. Anything more would be utterly exhausting.

The only person who I can actually consider to be a friend of mine is one of my older cousins. He lives in Florida, and I am currently living in North Carolina, so most of our communication is done through the internet. I do get to see him maybe two or three times a year though, so it's not like we've never met before.

Yes. I have one online friend who I have been friends with for years since 2004. We haven't spoken a lot lately but I have talked to him again last night. I would love to meet him and play video games with him and do our obsessions together. I wouldn't mind going to one of his sport games. We can both watch A league of Their Own since it be a combination of our obsessions. I wish he come out here and visit but he doesn't have the money and I don't have the money to go see him.

It's rare for me to have friends I have been friends with for years.

I've not had any real online friends for a long time - hard to make friends online these days I find.
With that said however one of my two best friends started as an online friend - we've been friends now for 10 years

My best friend has been for awhile now a guy I met at an anime convention. He's now dating my ex-best friend who hates me for reasons I don't understand. We used to talk everyday. He was one of the only people who I told about my parent's divorce. It was kind of a weird relationship thing though because I kept forgetting what he looked like! It was like the details of his face kept disappearing in my mind.

It's weird too because we like a lot of the same things and have had a lot of the same experiences and such, but we react and think so differently. Which was confusing for awhile because I at first assumed we were nothing alike, then I assumed we were exactly alike, and now I finally understand that just because we face similar experiences and tend to have similar opinions doesn't mean that we think the same.

Now, we don't talk so much. Not really sure why. Conversations just seem to die, mostly with me saying something and him ignoring me. But that's OK because I've got a couple of friends IRL now.

Yes. Met IRL too. Kind of a tempestuous friendship but a one-in-a-million one.

Not at the moment, I've a pretty good one right here in my home town I can meet in the flesh (whom I have NOT met on-line).

But about 4 years ago (wow has it been FOUR years?) I considered my online pals at the Comic Book Resources message board to be more of my 'gang of friends' than anyone I knew offline, even including my relatives at times. I got along nicely with a couple of posters there.

The sasd thing was that, usually when I started name-dropping or presuming to be some old-timer's "buddy", they would be all like "Who the H are you? I barely know you!" Which is the sad fate of the fanatic semi-lurker, doomed to know everyone on a message board, yet not being known by most of those others.

At one stage in my life, and with various people, yes.

Honestly, I knew something was wrong when, on my 21st birthday, more people had wished me a happy birthday ON-line at CBR than OFF-line.

Got it archived somewhere, too, with me multi-quoting all the happy-b-day wishes.

My closest friends and I communicate mostly online. I see them in real life maybe every month or two. Partially the problem is distance and partially it's because I tend towards seclusion.

My closest friends have all been online.

Right now there are maybe two I'd put into that category, for different reasons, and it shifts at times. I'm also in the midst of talking to basically no one so that's having an impact as well.

Nope, I know her in real life and met her in real life.