Your group of real life friends vs. online friends.

[Dingo Jellybean]

This topic isn't meant to insult anybody, so eh.

Anyways, do you prefer RL or OL friends? I kind of prefer RL friends. I only have like, 3 or 4(the 4th one is iffy, but that's a long story) RL friends. I never had a great batch of friends, so I cherish them a lot. OL, I maybe have like, 20. Oddly enough, none of my RL friends have ever chatted with me online and vice versa.

So eh...discuss.

[Del Murder]

I don't ever get to hang out with either of them, so at least the online group is around more to talk to since I hate phones. I don't keep many of either.

[Faris]

.......This is hard.
I like to hang out with my real life friends, and laugh n' stuff.
But I love to talk with my online friends probably just as much as my real life friends, or maybe more sometimes
So, ya hard to pick, probably more with my online friends, sinve they're very helpful

[boris no no]

most of my real life friends are all from uni so can't do much....
my online friends seem to aperciate my madness a little more.
but i suppose they don't need to see it

i woyuld say i like them in equal amounts!

thus insulting noone!
yeay!

[Rainecloud]

It's much easier to keep in contact with online friends. However, there's no personal contact, so it's not quite as good.

Having said that, I don't really like my offline friends. They're annoying. At least you can mask your social weaknesses online (to a certain extent).

[Luc]

I prefer my RL friends. I have quite a few of friends, but most of them I really cherish. They're all great people.

Online I have so many friends. I had to make a new AIM username just to get rid of some of them, it's really hard to keep up with so many IM's. :/

Although, I enjoy talking to my online friends more than my real life friends as they can actually give advice or just hold a decent conversation.

[Doc Sark]

RL friends. They are the ones that back me up, that help me through the bad times, that know me inside out. I've met some cool people OL but none that could compare to the people that exist physically in my life.

[louby_4eva]

I prefer my real friends, I don't really have any friends on the internet, I do have a wife though (Jojo)

[Xander]

I don't have many RL friends but the few I have are worth more to me than everyone online. Because with RL friends, you know what you're getting, everything is face to face and real. Online you never really know anybody and everything is based on how people "seem". I appreciate all my friends from EoFF, but I'm not sure how many of them would even like or get on with me IRL. Spending some real time with a friend IRL is what makes me really happy at the moment.

[Rye]

Online. I'm gonna sound like an insane computer nerd here, but I really dislike my real life friends. There are 3, maybe 4, that I actually like. The rest just annoy me and bring a lot of drama into my life.

I'm not all that good at keeping IRL friends, maybe it's cause the people in my town irritate me, but they tend to become mean or weird or pot heads or they call me too much which makes me so mad.

[Jojee]

Online I have so many friends. I had to make a new AIM username just to get rid of some of them, it's really hard to keep up with so many IM's. :/

Friends aren't people you try to get rid of.

Anyway,

I would prefer hanging out with my RL friends over talking on the internet to my online friends, almost all of the time. ^_^ However, when it comes to chatting online or talking on the phone, I find that I a lot of the times prefer doing those things with online friends more. I have a lot more online friends and aquaintences than I do real life friends and aquaintences... but in both places, the <i>true</i> friends that I make are ones that I truly, truly cherish. ^^ I think my list of aquaintences online dwarf my list of actual friends :x

Mm... and I have a lot of wives/hubbies xD *chomps louby*

[Denmark]

Online. w00t.

My real life friends are alright, I just don't spend much time with them (because I spend so much time online ^_^), and I dislike the telephone. I don't usually talk to my real life friends online though.

also, online, I can be random and express myself any way I want, and be me imho.

[boris no no]

Online. I'm gonna sound like an insane computer nerd here, but I really dislike my real life friends. There are 3, maybe 4, that I actually like. The rest just annoy me and bring a lot of drama into my life.

I'm not all that good at keeping IRL friends, maybe it's cause the people in my town irritate me, but they tend to become mean or weird or pot heads or they call me too much which makes me so mad.

this is the same for me
i'm really rubbish at talking to people to their faces. i think that i'm annoying them
online i don't get shy so i find it easier to talk and be more witty!
that shows how dumb i am! i have the same amount of wit as a dead mongoose.

[fire_of_avalon]

Jojo knows the score. I like all of my online friends, and there certainly are a lot of them, and I really WOULD like to get to know them in real life, but, for now, anyways, the people I know in real life are the ones I trust the most, ergo they're the ones I'm closer too and appreciate more.

[Levian]

At the moment, I'm a bit annoyed at my offline friends, or at least some of them, but I still prefer them. There's just so many things you can do with offline friends that you can't with online. I do like my online friends too, of course, but offline anything is superior to online anything, imho.