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I’ve had online relationships that are just as close and just as real as the people I know in person. Deaths of people whose faces I’ve never seen and voices I

I’ve had online relationships that are just as close and just as real as the people I know in person. Deaths of people whose faces I’ve never seen and voices I’ve never heard hit just as hard as any other. I’ve attended an online funeral with only text for interaction from a hotel room a thousand miles from home. It was just as real as ones in person.

Macha 5y ago
Many of my longest friends are from online relationships, be it people I met online or from people I met in person but where circumstanes have left irl meetups very infrequent (e.g. moved countries). Compare that to my IRL social circle which has turned over a few times as my college friends and I scattered around the country post-graduation, or as I've moved around since then.