making friends on line

Blackpitts

howdy guys,
what's your favourite "tool" to find new friends on line?
1) chat (mIrc, icq, others) :v:
2) websites (dating on line, myspace.com) :cool:
3) forums (boards.ie )
4) others (???)

i would say the point 1), what about u?

see ya

Blackpitts

Alvis

Err... 1?

nlgbbbblth

www.thumped.com/bbs

Funkstard

I'll never do this, so.....

Robert Burns

but I've never found offering money to be a hindrance.

Feenikusu

3 and 1, usually I get to know people in forums and then start to chat with them via ICQ/other messenger.

sobberandclean

ive had some wacky chats to strangers over seas i know its all light hearted but theres some sickos out there msn i use mostly
although icq u can send texts from so i hear handy ...save the auld dollars lol.



i just joined a forum bout live tv for free and found the guys on there to be as helpfull as boards . freefootball.org
and i talk to those guys on msn a lot.

d-arke

ehh.... as a newbie to discussion boards, well to boards.ie, i seem to find that people are alot more open and helpful, but to actually make friends with them!?! in what way would you consider someone a friend. how can you be friends with someone who you've never met, and also, how weird is it to meet someone in person from the net, even weirder, a couple of friends of mine have had long distance relationships with people from the internet (galway and leeds). i find the whole thing strange.

monkeyfudge

Through e-mail..

I happen to be very good friends with the widows of several disposed African dictators... I'm helping them move some funds around.. it's all good.

Karoma

4. e-mail (jo@samaritans.org..)



... :rolleyes:

Shrimp

Well i don't set out to make new friends online, but boards is a good place to chat, cos nearly everyone live in Ireland, therefore meeting up when you get to know each other wouldn't be hard plus boards organises things like BoardsBeers etc.. not that you have to drink at them as the name might indicate. Msn is good I find, as your friends on it can add people into a chat convo to make it into a mini-chat room, then you can get to know people that way.

Also, if you have a particular hobbie it'd be good to join a site in that area. Like i like art, so I joined deviant art, it's the Internets (and possible the worlds) Largest art community.

Tar.Aldarion

have made some friends from one and three.

jonny68

I don't go online to make friends :rolleyes: although i have met many people through the net and become friends with them over a period of time as we shared some commmon interests,surely you must have some mates?

Tar.Aldarion

It's odd that he would come online to find them, most people just use their natural charm.
:wakka:

is_that_so

nlgbbbblth wrote:

www.thumped.com/bbs

Completely off topic. Who is John McCormack in your sig? The only famous one I know of has been dead a while.

And back on topic. It would be number 1 for me, although only a handful. As others have said cyberspace is a strange place and not one conducive to lifelong friendships.

Piste

I have spoken to several people online who I would have met in person first but really got to know over the internet, and chat programs like msn kind of strenghtened our friendships. Then there are people who I'd have spoken to a lot on IRC but would have never met IRL and when I meet them in real life I would be friendly towards them and it wouldn't be like we're meeting for the first time.

But nothing beats *actual* human contact for friend-making. :v:

andrew163

Have made a few friends through myspace and MSN (in that order).... and one or 2 through IRC...

Tbh real life contact is the best way though....

Piste

IRL or IRL?


Which would you prefer?

Shrimp

I made friends on an online game (counter strike) he's belgian, and we know eachother on msn for about 2 years now easliy.

Siogfinsceal

depends, to me forums are not great because you dont kno wth ereal person behind the nickname. met one of my mates via email though

biko

Boards is boards and IRL is IRL and never the twain shall meet ...