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Yeah I suppose they can, but it's not quite the same.
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You can form really great relationships online!...but you cant replace friends who will be there to hand you the kleenex box when you need it, or a hug.
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Both are really so wonderful and needed ..
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Just NOT the same..
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sure, some people find fake (online) friendships easier and more enjoyable!
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in as far as a *meeting of minds, yes
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People bond with touch. So, no.
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only for those too pathetic to make and keep real life friends. While net friends do have their place, you just can't get the same thing from net friends. Net friends aren't truly human contact the same way real life friends are. Anyone who says differently just spends way too much time on the net.
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I think the problem is that when you're online, your 'friends' are more likely to lie about age, where they live, what they like, and even their gender...so I find it hard to talk to people online and get too intimate.
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To some people they can just the same way that an invisible sky entitity can replace their reason and common sense. Loneliness can do a job on anybody and make them believe anything
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No, But then real flesh friends can't replace each other as well. When we met and become friends with someone we take part of them with us that will always remain and we give a part of ourselves also will remain. If they should leave they can not be replaced and that empty spot can never be filled. Best we can do is keep making more friends to mask the empty feelings.
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Can your virtual friends help you move? There's your answer.
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I think it all depends on what you are looking for from a friendship.
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No they don't have any fillings and: Dr. Richard Tunney, a psychologist at the University of Nottingham, in Great Britain discovered that achievements and even money mattered a good deal less than friendship. Those with five friends or fewer had a 60 per cent chance of being unhappy, irrespective of their economic status or of whether they had won the lottery. Those with five close friends had a 50 per cent chance of being happy, but by far the happiest were those with at least 10 friends, who had about a 55 per cent of being happy and satisfied with their lot in life.
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They do for me because I don't enjoy going out for lunches , shopping, going to each others home etc. so it works well for me.
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Why can't you have both? I have both.
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It will be too harsh to compare them Each exist at different levels. At their own levels they are the best. Both are necessary. One should not be replaced with another. If at all any replacing is necessary it is the virtual friends who will loose out. The real life friends are for ever.
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For me, they never could.
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the more friends the merrier
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Do you mean a friend inside your head or a friend inside a computer game?
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You can never have too many friends ;0)
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ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!!
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replace? No, however i have "virtual" friends who've transcended to become "real flesh" friends. we're not just talking about 1 or 2 here. We're talking about more than a handful but then i guess having a small community makes it easier because one way or another they're a friend of a friend or in one instance i met a pair of cousins and as it happens our families had a business relationship together and we even played together as toddlers when we were too young to remember
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Good enough for me.
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Why "replace"? Why not widen your circle of friends? I think virtual friends can certainly be as true, real and valuable as your real world friends. You can find phonies in both worlds, if you're not lucky. :) ((hugs))
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