Have you ever tried to make friends from the Internet?
Before the internet era, people usually make friends through some "social meetings" or introduced by other friends...they usually had dinner and parties together and they usually meet each other face to face.
However, since the development of the internet, people started to meet others by sitting in front of the computer, chatting with other through ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messager or some other chatrooms. They start to meet friends virtually. Today, i went to my favourite to search some of the postes... and this post is quite interesting which is the "Meet Your Virtual Friends". It is one of the post in the "The Thinking Blog".
According to this post:
"Online discussions sometimes result in exchanging emails. We start developing something that can be called 'friendship' and many times we start feeling there is some higher level of connection. Be it similar views, similar personalities or familiar life situations, sometimes these 'friendships' also develop because we are learning something new from each other. Learning from each other is a big aspect of blogging and I feel most people are blogging because they do like meeting like minded people."
In fact, i quite agree with this idea. It's because since the development of internet, blogging is one of the good way to meet more people from other countries. Through the blogs, you can know more about the bloggers and sometimes you can learn from them. Not only receiving the ideas, you can also reply them by submitting your comments. If the bloggers or other agree or disagree with what you said, they will keep replying. Therefore, you can have a good chance to meet more people and learn more.
In my experience, when i started to use internet around 10 years ago, i would like to use ICQ to chat with others. ICQ is a very good tool to connect with the world. You can add someone from other countries like USA, UK, German or some local people. When i firstly use ICQ, i just chat with my friends who have also connected to the internet. But as time go pass, someone from other countries started to add me. Therefore, i have to learn and use English to chat with them.
As i remember, the first foreigner who added me was a girl from London. She was a student too. So, when we saw each other online in ICQ, we started chatting. The topic was usually about our lives in our country. Therefore, i knew more about England culture without went there directly. I am really glad to meet her. Unfortunately, i lost contact with her when i turned to use MSN...=.="... It's my good experience to meet friend from the net.
However, when i used ICQ for longer time, i found that some people who added you were actually cheating. Why i said they were cheating is because, for example, some of them will act as girls but in fact they were boys and some of them were actually telling lies to deceive money. Luckily, i didn't get into their traps. Therefore, after i knew that many people using internet to cheat others, i started not to add others who i don't know. Although i lose a chance to know people from other countries, i prefer protecting myself as to avoid any cheating happened.
Finally, i hope all of you guys can be more careful in meeting friends from the Internet. Be more careful when you try to add someone who you don't know in ICQ or MSN~ ^.^...Using Blog instead of them~haha~
