source
It is easier to make friends online than offline, people feel more freedom in expressing themselves online, and this is because of the absence of fear of some factors.
Here in my country, this is one of the factors that didn't let some friendship start talkless of growing, some people don't want to be friends with someone older than them, and some people take this age thing seriously and won't even look at someone younger than them twice because they felt they should only be friends with their agemate to avoid disrespect. Still, online, most people don't care about age; everyone just wants to vibe, and when the bond is already strong online, when they finally meet offline, nothing changes because they have passed that stage of age discrimination.
It is offline, you will see someone demanding respect from you by force by fire, you will hear statements like why are you calling me by my name, am I your mate I am your senior in school, add senior to my name when you call me, statement like this has made many people to avoid each other, one doesn't want to use those title and the other want it by force, so the best thing is to avoid each other, hence why it is difficult to make friends with certain people offline.
source
It is mostly online you will see someone you barely know or just become friends with telling you their deepest secrets, this is because they believe you do not really know them offline nor do you know others related to them, so they felt their secret is safer with you than them telling someone who knows them offline and can use those secret talk against them.
Many people can testify that they have discussed more secret shit with their online friends than offline friends, which is normal.
I do prefer online friendships because I love my privacy and alone time. Online friendships communicate through calls and text, no one invading others' privacy, unless few occasions when you decide to meet up and have some fun time, unlike offline friends that you may see each other often, which may start to become inconvenient, especially for introverts.
It is also hard to make friends offline especially if you are not in school, go to church or any other social gathering, the chance of making friends is thin but online is very easy, just enter any social media app and you are sure to make some friends within few days and if you are good at your game, a day is enough to find someone you can relate with on a deeper level.
It would have been impossible to become friends with some of my close online friends, especially the lady, if we were to meet offline because we would both find it difficult to approach one another, unlike how we met in social media groups and somehow we clicked.
If we somehow became friends offline, some boundaries would be set, we won't have been able to know each other on a deeper level, cos one person might start forming, but online, no boundaries, just pure vibes, so I would always prefer online friendships to offline.
Just call me Burl.
I am a professional gamer, motivational speaker and a crypto enthusiast
Discord: burlarj
Twitter id: burlarj1
Telegram: burlarj
God exists, I am a living testimony
Giving up is not an option, every hustler has a payday
Don't wish for it, Make it happen
Only Love can heal a broken Heart
I'm just realizing it's difficult to make friends offline if you are you not in school, not a big fan of online friendship, but beginning to like it this day.
yea it is difficult to make friends with the same mindset or goals if you are not in school, other places like church or neighbors is another way but hard to find people with same mindset r goals .
This post has been manually curated by @bhattg from Indiaunited community. Join us on our Discord Server.
Do you know that you can earn a passive income by delegating to @indiaunited. We share more than 100 % of the curation rewards with the delegators in the form of IUC tokens. HP delegators and IUC token holders also get upto 20% additional vote weight.
Here are some handy links for delegations: 100HP, 250HP, 500HP, 1000HP.
100% of the rewards from this comment goes to the curator for their manual curation efforts. Please encourage the curator @bhattg by upvoting this comment and support the community by voting the posts made by @indiaunited.
I will say I prefer online friends than offline friends, except my friends. I tried to make friends with offline friends but some doesn't work out because I'm younger than them so they thought they can't be friends with someone younger than them. But with the online people I'm chatting with, you will think we've known eachother for so long because we're comfortable talking to eachother, calling eachother to check up on eachother if one of us is not online since morning. So I will say I prefer online friends than offline.
age discrimination is one of the reasons offline friendship doesn't work in our country. If we can get past it, it will be easier offline too..
Delegate your Hive Power to Ecency and
earn daily curation rewards in $Hive!
It has been Most surprising thing to me about people pouring out their minds to people the met online. I didn't see this from this angle.
it is normal and common, they feel safer with people online.
You have pointed out two very important factors. I agree to both of them. The online friendship give us the freedom but it may be a trap also so we have to be more vigilant.
!BBH
!ALVE
yea online friendship have its cons too, cos your so called friends may pretend all yEARS without you figuring it out.