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Again, I just don’t have the impression that the origin story of a friend matters very much to anyone else than me and my friend. I have friends that I definit
by anyfoo 8y ago
Again, I just don’t have the impression that the origin story of a friend matters very much to anyone else than me and my friend.
I have friends that I definitely would call “mainstream”, and some of them you might call judgmental. However, their perception would rather apply to the person, how they present themselves and behave, rather than to how I originally met that person. That factor is bound to be just a passing interest (“How’d you met by the way? Ah.”). If at all, because come to think of it, you already have to have formed some opinion, or somewhat care, about said friend to go as far as asking such a question.
Ask yourself whether you’ve ever wondered with more than just fleeting, and therefore inconsequential, interest about how your friends have met their friends, the ones that you don’t have any strong feelings about yourself.
Which, again, also seems to be a bit of a different story with the people you’re dating.
- theoh 8y agoI think when Klathmon said "online friends", they meant friends who only communicate online. That's the scenario my reply addressed. You haven't exactly made it clear what kind of relationships you are talking about, but it sounds like you might be thinking of predominantly IRL relationships that just happen to have started online. That is a totally different ballgame.
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- anyfoo 8y agoNot sure. I don’t know! There’s one person that I have never physically met, but talked with almost every day for decades now. He’s however in the same (very small) group as other people I also talk with every day, but have seen a handful of times. They will definitely be invited to my wedding, but given how he happens to have met the others a handful of times, just not me (by sheer coincidence), that maybe lessens it.