Comments on: what are miles when we have wireless?

By: Indytina

Indytina — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:29:48 +0000

I have the honor of belonging to an amazing community of women, some of whom I’ve “known” online since 1998. We all had the misfortune of suffering a pregnancy loss and came together in a community on ParentsPlace (now part of iVillage, but we aren’t). We have been together through subsequent pregnancies, births, other losses, divorce, hurricanes, happiness…life. We laugh together and cry together. I have gotten to meet a large number of these ladies (I used to travel a lot for work and managed to work in meet-ups in a lot of the locales), but even the ladies I haven’t met I consider to be my friends. Most of them know more about me than my IRL friends. And that’s…okay. It keeps my soul fed. And I’m glad for it.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:59:50 +0000

A great friend of mine who I met online and have only seen face to face a handful of times puts it very well “Just because I don’t know how your eyes look when you laugh or how your mouth looks when you cry does not mean I don’t know who you are. In a way we cut through the superficial quicker online than we do with people we meet in the real world.”

Here is to teh internets

By: jess

jess — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:06:56 +0000

Yep, I found my “internet fuzzies”: my husband! We met via blogging, became best friends, realized that we couldn’t like anyone more than we loved each other, dated, then married. That’s part of the reason I have no problem realizing how internet relationships can evolve into deeper friendships, but I’ve also have several platonic friendships solely online that have become closer than some I’ve had in person. It’s amazing when you realize how much you have in common with someone many miles and states and sometimes countries away, isn’t it?

jess

By: mommymae

mommymae — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:15:21 +0000

my husband understands this, but no one else does. they all think i’m obsessed with the internet. blogging came at a time when i was feeling pretty lonely as a stay-at-home mom. i’ve made friends & connections here that have helped me out. and now that i’ve moved across country, those friendships are still there when the others i had IRL may fade away.

By: samantha jo campen

samantha jo campen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:14:57 +0000

Oh I love my internet peeps! One I actually got to meet in person and now we’re such good friends she helped us MOVE. And another I call my Internet BFF and we’ve never met. But yes, I’d hop on a plane in two seconds if something happened. I finally get to meet her at BlogHer and I can’t even contain my excitement!

By: Cute~Ella

Cute~Ella — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:37:04 +0000

I love my internet friends…Like @Molly, some of them know more about me, my hopes and fears than my friends IRL

By: kristi

kristi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:38:43 +0000

Word.

By: Domestic Extraordinaire

Domestic Extraordinaire — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:54:31 +0000

@Casey, so where are we going to be rocking out in a week and a half-you think that we will find some rockin' goodness at BlogHer?

By: Overflowing Brain

Overflowing Brain — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:32:35 +0000

One of my closest friends is someone I met through blogging. And I don’t know how I’d be surviving this life transition without her.

Those people who read my small blog, by and large, are among the people I trust most in the world. They laugh with/at me. They cry with me and they accept me no matter what.

I only wish that those kinds of communities were more readily available in real life.

Maybe I just need to convince more people to blog? Has someone taken www. 666 .com? Because I think my MIL would find it quite cozy there…

By: Halala Mama

Halala Mama — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:17:21 +0000

@Casey, It depends - how big was your hair and was he wearing parachute pants?