NerdyCavegirl
Sage
Where are the people you know online on your "friendship totem pole"? The answer is a bit tricky for me. On one hand, I'm a very private person, I have a strong anonymity policy with those I don't know personally, people on the internet are also more or less pretty anonymous, and I'm reluctant to call people I'll never meet and who's full names I don't know my "friends". I feel the term is thrown about too freely nowadays, like "love" and "liberty", with little understood meaning. On the other hand, while I may know many people offline that many of you would probably consider my friend, few fit my own criteria besides my mate and a handful of other relatives, so I find I often feel a faster connection with people I meet online. Probably because all my "social networking" consists of forums catering to my interests where I find peace of mind that comes from no one really knowing me. So how do you feel about your PM pals?