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MAY 30, 2004 12:51 PM
MAY 30, 2004 12:54 PM
i think that's pretty easy considering some people have friendslist going over 70 people easy. 
MAY 30, 2004 12:55 PM
Yes, but I have many that are friends in real life AND are on SG! 
MAY 30, 2004 12:57 PM
MAY 30, 2004 12:57 PM
MAY 30, 2004 01:00 PM
Snottlebocket said:
i think that's pretty easy considering some people have friendslist going over 70 people easy.
well, i guess that prompts the question, are you as popular in real life as you are on sg?
MAY 30, 2004 01:01 PM
The vast majority of my friends list is people I know and hang out with in real life.
MAY 30, 2004 01:08 PM
I know a good portion of my friends list in real life... granted, its a small list, but I'm a picky bitch like that.
MAY 30, 2004 01:13 PM
philz
Sweden
August 2003
MAY 30, 2004 01:16 PM
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MAY 30, 2004 01:20 PM
MAY 30, 2004 01:25 PM
beatrice said:
Snottlebocket said:
i think that's pretty easy considering some people have friendslist going over 70 people easy.
well, i guess that prompts the question, are you as popular in real life as you are on sg?
i am not, i'm not very social, in fact i go out of my way to avoid people.
LightbulbJack
Lansing, MI
December 2003
MAY 30, 2004 01:28 PM
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MAY 30, 2004 01:32 PM
MAY 30, 2004 01:42 PM
philzilla said:
no. i live in the real world. i do tend to make real life friends from 'net friends though. lots of them are letting me stay at their houses when i go to the US in august. that's what friends are for. we ring each other, buy birthday/xmas gifts, etc.
anyone who has way more "friends" on an internet message board than in real life has a bit of a problem, and could do with some fresh air. if they're shy, then sitting at home all day isn't going to increase their confidence in the real world; it's just going to fill them with a false confidence which is will set them back as soon as they go to a pub, or wherever, and have to deal with real people.
Um.. what if you've met quite a few of your friends through the internet and hang out with them on a regular basis in real life? 
I met my best friend on SG.
philz
Sweden
August 2003
MAY 30, 2004 01:45 PM
Shalome said:
Um.. what if you've met quite a few of your friends through the internet and hang out with them on a regular basis in real life?
then they're real life friends, and not internet friends, duh
MAY 30, 2004 01:45 PM
MAY 30, 2004 01:45 PM
Nope...I can't use my boyish charm online to grab friends, my personality fails me on here.
MAY 30, 2004 01:46 PM
yes 
some better ones on here too
MAY 30, 2004 02:08 PM
If I had less than 2 friends in real life I'd find a mountain and be a grouchy hermit. I never go and make friends in real life... I just meet people and if we get along then cool. It doesn't really work like that online. Oh well, maybe in a few years I'll have like 10 or so on my list. I'm in no hurry.
edited for a spelling error
[Edited on May 30, 2004 by Oktober]
MAY 30, 2004 02:15 PM
I dunno really. I never thought about it in terms of SG friends being like real life friends. In real life you don't get letters through your letter box asking you to be mates with that guy at the office. There is no formal exchange of profile pics...
I guess not really.
But I work with lawyers and everyone's totally married and really unsociable. I would rather have a very few excellent friends in the real world than loads of frieds who are the equivalent of people who's journals you read and who you arse around on here with.
I'm taking this question too seriously, aren't I? 
beatrice
Portland, OR
August 2002
MAY 30, 2004 12:51 PM