Like friends you text/chat with and whatnot. Not just message board friends or friends from here.
I’ve had series of different online friends for about a decade now.
Makes me ask because my “best e-friend”'s birthday is today.
He suffers from depression and the worst alcoholism I’ve ever heard of. Drinks 30 drinks a day and does nothing. But he’s awesome. I know he can’t keep this lifestyle forever and it makes me sad.
what about you?
Mainly just folks on here.
Got a few friends I occasionally text.
The rest of the internet sucks.
this is indeed the friendliest most judgement free environment i’ve met on the internet or anywhere and i love it.
I used to go on drug forums and would fear looking at my responses in my threads because everyone was such a dick.
So sometimes here I fear looking at responses in threads, then 2 days later I’ll be like “alright I’ll check it out”, and it’s always nothing but niceness, no animosity.
I skype w/ quite a few people that I’ve known for years. Also I go to various chat rooms and know people that I’ve gamed w/ over the years. I can’t imagine living w/o the internet! 
Yeah most my friends I met on sports forums. Some I have more in common than others.
Yeah, I have a couple internet friends.
I have two long term internet friends with whom I talk daily.
I’ve only made one internet friend here. At other forums I wouldn’t post enough.
I did make a friend through a chat room, but I haven’t spoken to him in ages. It was more of a relationship really.
I’ve had a few. They always stop messaging me in the end though.
Generally because they start thinking they can help me, so I share more and more over time and they just get overwhelmed.
One guy I was pretty close with online because we’d had similar experiences, but he ended up getting feelings for me…and I didn’t feel the same…I still feel sad about losing that one sometimes
Online friendships don’t really work for me 
Really this was my first time. 
Its weird.
I have one close friend. She’s been in my life since I was a child in the third grade. She’s seen me at my worst, and at my best, and she understands. She’s my best friend, like the sister I never had.
I call her, text her keep up to date with her on face-book, I attempt to see her at least once a year if not more…but we’ve been going in different directions so it’s been hard to catch up with her.
Other than that I mostly chat with people on-line. There’s a lady on Facebook I chat with from time to time, but have never met her, she lives in California as I live in Missouri with not an easy way to meet off-line. Plus I don’t think I’ve ever discussed my illness with her. It’s nice to talk with people and have them not know I’m Schizo, and treat me like any other person they know.
I facebook and have friends on facebook that I grew up with in my nieghborhood and went to junior and high school with.
I just started conversing with some 19 year old girl online who thinks she may have paranoid schizophrenia. We’re still kind of feeling each other out but it is going OK. I would also like to have a friend in real life, girl or guy. Just to do things with.
Really… 19? Good to go nick
Thanks, but It’s not like that. There’s too big an age difference. I’m just trying to help her. If she was 40 it would probably be a different story.
I have some internet friends or friends that I know but we don’t get out and so we keep in touch on the internet.
I have a few people off forums who are on my FB friend list,does that count? None of them I text/chat with. Occasionally I’ll start up email correspondence with someone but sooner rather than later it stops. That’s the thing with people getting to know you,they go off you.
Most of my friends are Internet friends. I live in a small town so people who share my interests (high end audio, photography at a high skill level, etc.) are in short supply locally. I’m active on other forums besides this one, namely archery, photography, videography, and professional audio mixing and gear. In terms of audio gear I find myself regularly having to defend the honour of my Behringer kit from Philistenes.
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I have one friend in real life. I sometimes go to his house to visit. Other than that no friends on the internet. I did have a Facebook account once but I didn’t like all the people trying to connect with me. It brought up too many bad times. This forum and MA online is about the only way I connect with people online.
I am way too paranoid to talk to people outside of sz.com
When I first started up here 20 years ago was amazed that people would actually mention symptoms.
I thought don’t they know about the ‘trace’?
I still don’t have any real people friends.