Gamers may not know what their MMOG pals look like, but thanks to voice chat, will known what they sound like. Even if they have posted photos of themselves, these may only give a very approximate sense of what someone looks like when they are standing in front of you (as anyone who has ever used a dating app or website can confirm!). We may not even know what our online friends look like. It’s certainly true that online friendships lack what seem to be a central element of the real life counterpart: the physical presence of the other person. Connections are forged and relationships form.īut such people friends in the real sense of that word? My own answer would be … maybe. They learn things about each other’s lives, views, and personalities. These allow people who may never have met in the real world to interact freely and get to know each other, sometimes to a remarkable degree. Here’s an interesting question for you: can you be friends with someone you’ve never met? A few decades ago that would have seemed like a nonsensical question, but nowadays I think a surprising number of us would answer ‘yes, you most certainly can’.Īnd what has enabled this curious twist in human relations is the internet: specifically social media and other interactive systems like online gaming.
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