#virtual friends

[theangelcatalogue]

How do you make online/virtual friends?

[kadilnu]

we stay outside @juststupid882

[simsllama]

Spent a day in the life of Jenna Blackwood and it was nothing short of ordinary. 💫 From urgent bathroom dashes to butterfly pursuits with Osiris the Sphynx, and laid-back kicky bag sessions, every moment was filled with amusement. Oh, and the lobster thermidor? Chef's kiss! 🍽️✨

[stoppasta]

This is a safe place

@horridfreedom

Please follow me ;3

[kakushitsu-no-tenshi]

Te tengo ganas y me tienes ganas ¿pa cuando me invitas a tu cama?

[juststupid882]

MY BESTIE AND MEE :3

(My bff: Johnny) (Me: Bi-Han)

[myfuckingpenexploded]

Sometime I remember how weird virtual friends are- like yes, I know this man and I trust him with my life! Have I met him in person? no, he lives in a different continent.

There is a random dude who I only got into contact with because a friend's friend knew him in elementary school. And he knows more about me than my family. That's super weird.

The other day I called him to entertain him during a 4 hour train ride, spent one hour on call with him. And the guy next to him aparently wanted to be apart of the conversation so now there's two guys who I've never seen irl who know my name and my weird lore.

We live in a world where this is normal and I love it. He's one of my closest friends now and I never would have met him in other circumstances.

This is a man who has found and read my fanfiction, let me drag him back into the countryhumans fandom after he escaped and he's still here. The internet is good sometimes :D

[2x-sarah-x6]

My Ytb ✨❤️

When u have kinda famous friends so u earn 32 subs without doing anything 🤭✨

I love them sm frrr<33🥹

Our channel ✨🥄 :

(Even tho ''I'' don't post but it's okayy 😭)

Go check their channels ✨😩❤️ (In ''Channels'', in our channel ✨)

[bevsmith]

Two and a bit years since leaving the old country

It is just over 2 years since I left South Africa and how my emotions towards that country have changed. The raw anger has been dispersed by daily life in a place where I feel safe. It is still quite a novel emotion. When you have lived for about 15 years being hyper aware of everyone and everything around you in order to immediately take action to protect yourself, it takes time to adjust to not having to do that. In fact not having to give a single thought to danger and protecting yourself. You are much more likely to have someone smile and greet you in my new life than have them attack you.

Two years ago I felt desperately relieved to have gotten out in time. Anger at having my belongings destroyed, resentment that I actually had to leave and a need to distance myself from everything South African. With time that has changed. I now embrace being South African, although with the understanding that the country I grew up in and have such fond memories of doesn’t exist any longer. I am now a human without a country. Moving countries and starting a life somewhere else is not easy.

It is a natural human need to want to belong somewhere but as a migratory human that doesn’t always work. I am surrounded by wonderful, friendly, warm people in Portugal who invite me to festivals and events that take place in the small town I live in and make me feel very welcome. But I don’t feel any sense of belonging as the culture and traditions are not familiar to me. They are strange and foreign. Interesting and mostly wonderful but not familiar. There are a lot of us migratory South Africans around the world.

I have a lot of SA friends now living in England who all feel a similar sense of not quite fitting in so over Easter this year we started a new annual tradition. On Easter Sunday we held a virtual braai during which we shared videos, pictures and chats of our separate Easter braai’s. All of us in different countries and connected only by our shared longing for the familiar. It was a spectacular success and one which we plan to repeat often. Nothing can quite replace the feeling of connecting with an old friend with shared memories and a similar background. Silly jokes are immediately understood and require no explanation.

New friends are great but are sometimes friends by proximity. Forgive how cruel that sounds but it is sometimes the truth. Of course I have met wonderful people here with whom I would be friends wherever I was, but others are by proximity. And that is also just fine. Old friends are sometimes friends for exactly that reason also. You have known one another for so long that it is not worth changing anything.

But then there are the special wonderful old friends. You know who you are and will always be treasured in my heart even though we mostly have to interact virtually now...

[livingfordummies]

I need internet friends that wanna Snapchat back and forth when times are boring and tough

[ninnythreadgoodw]

dark academia friends!

is there someone interested in get a friend to talk about art, sociology and philosophy like the world’s about to end? because here i am...

[fromnanna]

Olá Tamblr ontem não tive mt tempo para escrever mas ontem eu tbm voltei a conversar com meu amigo virtual

[lilyduvet]

04.14.2024 ; sunday.

It's strange to think that the incessant feeling of not belonging still torments me even though I think everything is fine. I feel like ripping my throat out in a scream when I think I'll never get rid of this imposter syndrome, I think I'll never be able to feel like I belong to any group, no matter how hard I try.

My biggest problem is that I value quantity more than quality.

Much is said about appreciating the quality of our friends more than the quantity of friends, but little is said about ending up choosing quantity over quality because the fear of loneliness and abandonment is too great to bear.

I like being alone, but I hate feeling alone.

I no longer feel like having friends, or talking to my current friends, or spending time with them. Not because of a lack of energy or because I got sick of them. I've gotten to the point where I believe I don't deserve to have friends.

I feel like I was condemned to live alone and lonely. I feel like an impostor among people, an ugly duck among many swans.

[the-internet-is-underwater]

Person I met in our Cafeteria showed me his AI friend yesterday

[blehrawr]

I need an artist friend 😭