Is it hard making friends as an adult?

[Dee]

Yeah theres people at work that want to be friends but I am on the fence when it comes to hanging out with them outside of work. I like to keep my worlds separate.



Cue the corny "Well you got us here on this forum" line that most people say.... but we all know that online friends and IRL friends aren't the same thing. Unless someone you post with someone who is in your local area, then you could hang out in person if you wanted to.

I have made and kept some friends on the internet for a very long time, over a decade at least. So yeah I get what you mean, but those people are definitely good friends and better than the ones who're in my life here.

 

[Nebulous]

I have made and kept some friends on the internet for a very long time, over a decade at least. So yeah I get what you mean, but those people are definitely good friends and better than the ones who're in my life here.

Same here, online friendships are great, but we still need face to face human interaction with a person we are fond of and can call a friend.

 

[Kale]

Cue the corny "Well you got us here on this forum" line that most people say.... but we all know that online friends and IRL friends aren't the same thing. Unless someone you post with someone who is in your local area, then you could hang out in person if you wanted to.

Yup much like IRL though I've lost contact with people I've met on chat rooms, forums, and sometimes even social media. That's the downside to Internet friends IMO. A site or so can go down one day and you'll never have a way to contact that person again. What me and a few of the CLOSE online friends have considered are giving out our actual phone numbers. Some also have social media they don't plan to ditch/delete and can just talk there too if Discord or whatever dropped one day.

I've never once met an actual person I've met online in reality. There have been talks before, but that was just it. Anytime we do wanna meet up, it never happened.

 

[Nebulous]

Yup much like IRL though I've lost contact with people I've met on chat rooms, forums, and sometimes even social media. That's the downside to Internet friends IMO. A site or so can go down one day and you'll never have a way to contact that person again. What me and a few of the CLOSE online friends have considered are giving out our actual phone numbers. Some also have social media they don't plan to ditch/delete and can just talk there too if Discord or whatever dropped one day.

I've never once met an actual person I've met online in reality. There have been talks before, but that was just it. Anytime we do wanna meet up, it never happened.

Is any of your online friends near you?

 

[Kale]

Is any of your online friends near you?

One of them I think sort of is, but she's hardly on or pays attention to Discord possibly due to her IRL. But not really, sadly. The only friend I did have IRL outside of school I lost due to being a dumb teenager.

 

[Nebulous]

Seems like the only place I have to meet friends is at work and I don't really want to hang out with any of them outside of work. I like keeping my work life and personal life separate.

Scratch that, I did make one work friend recently and we have plans to go do stuff in a couple weeks.