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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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I would say I've had plenty. Met a handful of them irl. These days, pretty much all of them are from the sc2 community.
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Wow, sorry for the loss mate.
I know a friend of mine, we hardly talk now, but during DoTA, we chatted and played a hell lot (we met even before then).
We've known each for maybe 9 years? I still talk to him but he's doing his thing and I'm doing mine. I thought SC2 would reconnect us since he was a huge WC3 RTS player but he just couldn't get into the groove and thus here we are.
I've quit MSN and I believe he still logs in.
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
I have lots of friends that my only communication with them is the internet. Some it has got to the point of exchanging cell phone numbers for texting.
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sorry for your loss.
I actually knew someone I met on Battle.Net during 6th grade, and he was a year older than me. I talked to him till my freshmen year of college when I noticed he stopped going on AIM. I actually logged on his screenname (which I gave to him, so I had access to the PM.
Apparently when I logged in people were messaging me thinking I was his mother and yeah...that's how I found out. He jumped off a building and killed himself. idk why, the guy seemed like he was having a good life. Really smart person, he helped me out on a lot of things and when I found out I was pretty devastated. :'(
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Sorry to hear about that man. That is really rough losing a friend like that. I had a similar experience of a friend I had met online and kept in touch with for a few years and one day I got a phone call from one of our mutual online friends telling me he had shot himself.
Losing a good friend online sucks. Because you can't be there and you feel like you always wanted to reeeaally know them more. I can tell you that you are in the right place. There are plenty of people here who want to make more online friends ^^
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Holy shit there's so much death and suicide of internet friends in this thread o.O
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I've had some great internet friends over the years, but I think I've lost contact with all of them. I guess the same would be true in life, if it wasn't for facebook and whatnot. I still have great memories though of staying up untill 5 in the morning playing broodwar all night with my clanmates.
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wow, really sad to hear about something like this. when i think back to when i spent quite a bit of time playing on SC BW, i had a couple of people who i really enjoyed gaming with and talking to, who i hadn't really thought of until now. all of the friendships kind of just faded away though when people stopped logging on, etc. i've yet to stumble across someone i've really really clicked with that our friendship would traverse b.net to like skype/FB lol, so that we'd keep in touch and talk often even after that initial common interest was gone.
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Germany2896 Posts
One my SC partner went missing for about 4 months. Turned out he moved, and the ISP at his new location was too stupid to get internet working for months... Frightened me quite a bit.
Currently I haven't seen him online in over a month. Only thing I can do is trying not to worry. If something happens to him I'll probably never know, since I know nobody who knows him in RL.
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Thanks for your support guys! I find it quite comforting that there are more people who have the same experienced the same as me! After I come back from India I will maybe have time to play BW, and then I will try to find an awesome 2v2 partner!
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Canada7170 Posts
I have two internet friends who I've never met in real life. The rest are officially "real" friends because I've met them after meeting them online. One time one of my friends went away for a long time and I got really worried, turns out he was writing a book and didn't want to be bothered.
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I had an internet friend of several years back when I played wow. Eventually, my parents took my computer away for half a school year because I wasn't doing well in my classes, and she transferred servers in that time and the only contact info I had from her was myspace, but everyone was switching over to Facebook at that time and as such, I never heard from her again.
It's a shame, Internet friends can be some of the best friends you have IMO. For me atleast, it's much easier to convey my thoughts over the Internet than in real life, and she was able to get me over that 'afraid to talk to girls' thing. We weren't in a relationship or anything, we were just friends. We were planning to meet up sometime when she came to new York over the summer but meh..
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When I met Kona in Korea it was the first time I actually met him but it felt like I knew him for a long time .
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That is absolutely terrible Arnstein. I really feel for you.
I don't have any real internet friends right now... I have a couple of "buddies", but nothing that would qualify as real friendship. But I had a group of really close internet friends, but these relationships (like so many in real life) ended when we moved on in our lives.
If anyone of you are interested in this little story, you can read the spoiler:
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A few years ago (don't actually know the exact time, but it was more than 5 years ago), I played Warcraft 3 competitively and was part of a clan that consisted of a group of really close friends. We were a handful of guys who would be talking via Ventrilo (something like Teamspeak) all day long, every day, practice a ton of WC3 and talk about all kinds of shit.
We went through sooo much together. We recruited new members to our clan, we slowly rose in the ranks of the German ESL Clan League and even into the highest league there at one point (it was called "ESL Premier League" back then, I'm not even sure if it still exists). We went through highs and lows together.
While most of our talk in the group was either discussion about the game or about random funny crap, I also remember spending hours at a time in the night 1on1 with one of the guys talking about more complex things, and having real conversations. It was so awesome.
Sadly though, maybe 3 years after we initially all met, everything started to fall apart. Real life issues prevented me from playing, some of the guys stopped to and eventually everything started to fall apart. That was also the time when I took a very long hiatus from eSports (about 4 years until the SC2 beta came out I think), since I couldn't find a good team where I had that same feeling again.
Without a doubt, I'd call the years with them the best time of my life so far. Having a group of real friends in your clan and going through all these things together with them is just an experience that I didn't have ever again.
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