tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post9162829290094653402..comments2023-10-30T08:23:36.678+00:00Comments on Trying My Patients: 2013Ella Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15379522083602755280noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-19511680075922770542013-06-04T13:05:35.127+01:002013-06-04T13:05:35.127+01:00I don't actually have any real life friends, b...I don't actually have any real life friends, but just did a search on my own blog to find I have posted way more often than I'd realised in praise of virtual friends - and this despite the fact I am someone who only uses the internet on a "proper" computer, looks up phone numbers in the phone book and only turns on ancient mobile in emergencies! Virtual is good.Heather Leavershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330793797439133950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-50362399047791478682013-06-03T15:58:10.393+01:002013-06-03T15:58:10.393+01:00I just found your blog and I have to say I love my...I just found your blog and I have to say I love my online friends. I have 3 long term friends, one from writing, one from general hospital (soap opera) and one from an adult chat room. Would we be friends rl? No idea especially since two aren't my age but I make the perfect friend online or real life. I remember names, dates, who's sick, who might've had surgery and I remember to ask. I amaze people I'll remember to ask about your dad two months from now if you tell me he's sick or in the hospital. Most ask once or twice then drop it but from personal experience I know it's nice to be thought of often and asked. Online friends are just as great as any other friend.True Blue Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973677875656657125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-71830952828020348602013-06-03T15:53:49.683+01:002013-06-03T15:53:49.683+01:00Online or real-life …still nobody loves me.Online or real-life …still nobody loves me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-27709923442401345892013-06-03T14:02:19.695+01:002013-06-03T14:02:19.695+01:00I met my husband in an all chat room, half of the ...I met my husband in an all chat room, half of the ppl that came to our wedding were friends from all. Our wedding cake was made by an internet friend, with the bride and groom sat behind computers. I laugh joke commiserate on fb and twitter as well as put the world to rights. It not for everyone but don't mean I call someone who sits watching tv all day. I love the net :-PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-73072817621978370852013-06-02T23:11:13.192+01:002013-06-02T23:11:13.192+01:00I give thanks every single day that the technology...I give thanks every single day that the technology to allow me to be "a loser" exists and that my lifetime coincides with it.<br /><br />I have a variable health condition which means I am either unable to leave the house at all or if I do leave the house people will be left with the assumption I am drunk or "on something" because my speech is slurred or confused or both. <br /><br />The internet means I have contact with people - both those I know from real life and those I have met in the virtual world. In the virtual world I am still "me" (the delete key is essential lol) because I can say what I am trying to say without it getting lost in transmission.<br /><br />Call me a loser if you will - at least this loser is not locked up isolated from any human contact but instead can still interact with the world.sphinxhttp://www.adifferentopinion.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-25930416509985812962013-06-02T22:23:37.366+01:002013-06-02T22:23:37.366+01:00I have a very good friend I met online, whom I hav...I have a very good friend I met online, whom I have never met, who is right now helping me nurse my father thru his death from prostate cancer. She is there more for me, even tho I'm on the East coast, and she's on the West coast, than some of my family who is only 10 minutes away. God sends us the friends we need, if we are trusting enough to accept them. I'll pray for your housemate. I am really enjoying your blogs, keep up the good medical and literary work :)<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-25813653041617827932013-06-02T21:58:13.367+01:002013-06-02T21:58:13.367+01:00i have met some very good friends via the internet...i have met some very good friends via the internet whom i would NEVER have connected with in any other way. i have also met some very very good friends (if you get my meaning) as being a straight looking (to most people) but very gay lady it takes the guesswork out of that equation for both me and the potential partner, and i'm not talking about internet dating either, just people ive connected to through common interests other than sexuality (just like `real' life. fancy that!) ive met great and deep loves via the internet and truly special friends. i have yet to have a bad experience where someone turned out to not be who i thought they were. the same cannot be said for the real world.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705345082003703005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-71160713165542965092013-06-02T21:56:04.982+01:002013-06-02T21:56:04.982+01:00Last week I went to a family party (myself, my hus...Last week I went to a family party (myself, my husband and my brother are all gamers with similar interest). There was approx 15 people there that we have met through playing MMORPG games, some of which we originally 'met' online back in 1999. They have seen our children grow up. We have witnessed others meet and then get married... All because of online gaming. I have friends in Turkey, Belgium, USA, Netherlands, Switzerland and many, many more simply because I talk to people online in the games I play. I love the internetz :)Tilnoomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-33376926222165179132013-06-02T21:52:21.599+01:002013-06-02T21:52:21.599+01:00I've made some of my very best friends through...I've made some of my very best friends through the internet, and even been lucky enough to meet some of them - they have been exactly as they were on-line, but even more lovely. I don't think I'm a saddo, or you either.<br /><br />Let's face it, 30 years ago it was normal to go off to France to stay with a pen-friend that your French teacher had chosen for you and you'd written to for a few weeks. At least these days we have instant messaging and photos to give us more insight into who we are talking to. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-41245991593395496472013-06-02T21:49:05.261+01:002013-06-02T21:49:05.261+01:00My God, your housemate sounds like he needs your a...My God, your housemate sounds like he needs your assistance to get him to a hospital. Surely he needs surgery to get that massive chip off his shoulder or get the rod removed from his arse?!<br /><br />I have loads of friends - some from school, some from jobs, some from the internet. Often the ones I met in 'real life' aren't there for me, and the ones on the other end of the 'puter are. Friends are always a glorious thing to have (unless they're arseholes, in which case, bin 'em!) and unless a lonely old life is something a person is striving for, who the hell cares where said friends came from?!<br /><br />The more the merrier, I say! Just me, Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13863490605328463689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-12634815125469620372013-06-02T21:42:53.016+01:002013-06-02T21:42:53.016+01:00I would mention the coffee and or Big Jim but I wo...I would mention the coffee and or Big Jim but I won't :-). But laughing at other blog and wrong/similar addresses....... I've also got the "dork" t'shirt for doing this...... And still get a good ribbing from it. Hey ho! Anyhow, grasp modern social media as it ain't going away.....! Boom! 🍷DrClimbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18169153650181784975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489565303994499222.post-15998474473395382892013-06-02T20:33:56.143+01:002013-06-02T20:33:56.143+01:00Seriously? Is this still a problem? I keep telling...Seriously? Is this still a problem? I keep telling people I internet date friends because apparently that is OK. Yesterday I went to the movies with a pal I met ON THE INTERNET. When I moved to the UK a pal I met on the internet took me to Ikea and helped me find a place to live. It's amazing how the people on the other end of the wire are actually human beings who have similar interests to you and make the nice things better.Alicia Foodycathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931796992646884249noreply@blogger.com