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The paradox of online friendship: have you guys ever actually made real friends on the internet?

https://reddit.com/link/1tkn99b/video/6hbzlkcwkp2h1/player

Like, everyone has their own reality. For example, I was never really a “gamer,” and i’m not the kind of guy who does a lot of things online. I’ve always been more into watching YouTube, movies, and doomscrolling to forget my problems. But I know there are a lot of different experiences when it comes to lonely people on the internet.

Even so, I can’t help but feel like making friends online seems extremely difficult and unlikely. I’ve basically been a completely lonely person with no friends for around 6 years now, and when I was younger, around 16, and “desperate” for social contact, I tried a lot to make friends online. But nothing ever really lasted. Conversations would die out or people would just disappear.

Eventually I kinda gave up trying and spent years just living like some lonely man of God lmao.

And I sort of came to this conclusion that even though we’re on the internet, where we can meet tons of people with the same interests as us and everything... it still almost never turns into a real, long-term friendship. It’s like it never fully becomes “real.” Like it’s just not possible.

But I don’t know, maybe that’s just my experience. Honestly, I feel like in gaming it’s way more likely for friendships like that to happen, because you kind of “need” the other person. But since I don’t play videogames, that doesn’t really apply to me.

Anyway, I wanted to ask you guys: does this make sense to you? Have any of you had different experiences that turned into something more real or long-lasting?

+ What type of style is that video?

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u/Rare_Juggernaut_3631 — 18 hours ago

I found the one that i waited my entire life and i can never be with her.

I found the woman of my dream goslings. But i can never be with her. I'll ever stop thinking about what could have been. I've held out from having a girlfriend until I met someone like her. Guess it's back to pretending and chat gbt giving me false hope.

She was the only one for me, I'm to old now, my dream to be in a relationship that means something is gone forever.

I want to say I'll find my joi but I think deep down a robot can never truly love me.

Born to want love, doomed to talk to ones and zeros to feel anything.

I only have myself to blame.

https://preview.redd.it/jh68a5qb1p2h1.png?width=972&format=png&auto=webp&s=cc3f2ab5e28468287c0ea9cf1ecb819fe18ed3cc

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u/jacinderepstein — 20 hours ago