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Do you guys have any internet friends? By internet friends I mean friends that you only know through internet.
I had a fantastic internet friend for 6 years. We "met" on PGtour in 2005 and after practicing a little, we started chatting. We spoke both on IRC and MSN and we had so much fun. A few years later he got a microphone for his birthday, so I stole my brothers just to finally be able to actually talk to him. After we started to talk over microphone we started "hanging out" even more, discussing replays and VODs a lot, but also talking about personal stuff. We both introduced each other to new TV series and music, and we generally just had a lot in common. I had and have many good friends in real life, but it was still really really good to just come home from school or a friends house and sit down and talk to my internet friend.
Three weeks ago he stopped logging on basically everything that we used to keep contact. At first I just thought he was busy, but after two weeks of not hearing from him, I actually found the email address of his mother, and emailed her. It turns out that he died in an accident  We never met as I live in Norway and he lived in the UK, but we actually were talking about meeting this summer, as I have decided to go to the UK.
I feel so internet lonely now. Anyone wanna be my friend?
  
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Wow that is harsh Sorry for the loss.
All my best friends are internet friends :O
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So sorry for your lost that's so sad
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I'll be your friend! :p
That's too bad to hear, my regrets. I have some internet friends who live in Ontario, like 3 of them, who all know each other, and they're friends with my brothers as well, so we all hang out in Skype and play games together. I also used to talk to a group of like 5 people over Xbox live, a guy going to college in NY for performing and voice acting, a rich guy, another guy who was a metalhead, and a couple others, we were a pretty diverse group, but then I stopped playing on Xbox so much and kind've lost contact with them.
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Awe, that's terrible!
I have a lot of internet friends, some of which I've had to abandon based on how they acted towards me and changed dramatically.
Recent events have caused a community I'm part of to become closer.
I'm very sorry for your loss and I understand the kind of impact that sort of friend can have on you. It can be outright devastating when you lose them.
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
My favorite part about meeting internet friends in person is that it's like you are meeting a new person who you already know you will like. It just expands on the internet friendship so much more. I'm sorry that you didn't get to meet him, but I'm sure you can visit his grave later in life. I bet that'd be special (: Keep your chin up, and god bless.
R.I.P.
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Sorry for your loss
I've actually made quite a few friends over the internet, but it started out with a couple pen-pals (even if it's the internet I still think that's an appropriate term) I had who found me online through some writing I did. In fact, most of the friends I made in college were people who I met online, and ended up going to the same school as me. It turned out to be really handy since I commuted to school and they had places for me to crash  Murderotica's right, meeting them in person later is really refreshing... it's a shame you didn't get that opportunity, but again you can always visit later on.
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I find that your post is quite disturbing. Your internet friend dies and your reaction is "damn, where can I get a new one?".
I don't want to flame or to be an asshole but this is what it sounds like to me.
As for me, I've had internet friends as a teenager, but as time went on it felt like most of these relationships were empty and missed the most important part about having a friend: having the warmth of a close being you can rely on, offering your own help whenever you can.
Can't really do much for an internet friends if his parents die in an accident. And I know that if a friend died, I wouldn't post it on a forum. I'd be too depressed to browse the net.
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I feel for you, I had a pretty similar situation come up last year, I met this guy and a group of others (there were 4 of us, 2 were brothers) back in vanilla wow a few years ago and we were a pretty tight knit group but after a while some of us stopped playing wow and went on to other things and then I got a pm on xfire from one of the guys linking to a news article about a missing man being found down the side of a cliff, I recognised the name mentioned as one of the 2 brothers. I remember him mentioning how he was going to spend the summer cycling in the welsh hills to get into shape and to find out that he apparently had a heart attack on his bike which led to him going off the cliff was really quite hard hitting.
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I only have one friend in real life, everyone else I know is through the internets. The person I know I met through the internet initially, too.
I am a hermit though, so it's normal for me.
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All the internet friends I've made who didn't try to screw me over (like friends would in diablo2) were from starcraft broodwar.
Sorry about your friend Some of the best friends I ever had I never even met in person. I met Sn3t and Arugun back in starcraft broodwar and we played and talked together every day for about 5 years. I had very few real life friends at the time so they were my escape. Even after we all quit playing we remained good friends. However real life and responsibilities ultimately took over for some of them as we fell out of contact, which I can respect, but I will always remember the good times, as you should too. I also have other good friends I met in SC including rebirthoflegend whom i still talk to today
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Sorry for your loss man.
I have some friends from online as well although I'm not anywhere near close to them as you were with him.
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chobopeon knows all my secrets
sorry about your friend
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Sorry to hear, Arnstein.
Same exact thing happened to me a while back.
I'll be your friend. ^^
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On March 09 2011 07:07 des wrote:
chobopeon knows all my secrets
sorry about your friend
what the h
came to this thread to say des is my worst enemy
sorry to hear about your loss. i'd say the best thing you can do is try to distract yourself with something productive! you may feel better.
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Yeah I have a lot of internet friends, probably more than real life friends, but that's because I live in such a small town 
Weird thing is that I barely have any friend from TL O.o
Sorry about your loss!
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I am sorry to hear that man
I have alot of friends who I value more than alot of people I know in real life, who I have met only through the internet Please feel free to PM me if you I will glady be your internet friend
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Ahh that sucks... Yeah I've had tons, but only like 2 that I've known for years and years.
I've often wondered if anything has happened to my internet friends of old...
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I'm sorry.
I had a friend sort of like that on Brood War.
The last thing he said to me was "Dude I just bought WoW".
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Sorry to hear ur loss
Ive had internet friends before but they mysteriously disappear after awhile. It's really sad that it turned out to be like this for you, a friend is a friend whether u've sen him or not.
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