Friends online are the people that I think I can confide in. Last I made a post in another community in the #hive Blockchain. I said that I have come to trust people online More than the people physically with me. Why? Because of the few reasons I will be dropping bellow:

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For week 235 episode 1 says - Online Friends. Yeah guys I so much love the fact that I have been able to make a lot of meaningful online friends. Of course it has to be a meaningful one because I think that at this my age I won't allow a friend to mislead me. I have had so many experiences while growing up and I know that I have learnt a lot of lessons while making physical friends. That is the reason why I make sure to allow on good friends with positive impact in my life even online.
THESE DAYS, THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE ONLINE MAKE IT ALMOST UNNECESSARY TO HAVE PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE REAL WORLD.
While, what I think we should be concerned with is the positive or negative impact of the topic. Personal I enjoy the online friends today more than the ones I know physically that can't keep your secrets. Some of them will look for a way to bring you down if they notice you are going up. Just like the saying that says - The enemy within is more dangerous than the enemy without. My online friends don't possibly know where I stay and they don't also know more than the information I have given them about myself. We are notice that we are hustling to survive and we look for a way to help each other.
MAKING INTROVERT EASIER
Maybe I don't get to talk to people online when I am talking, but what about when I go live to talk with my fans? I will still talk and somethings when we go online it last for half a day and all we do is just to talk. I have never changed despite the fact that I have more online meetings than the physical. Been online does not also mean that I can't relate with people physically. I still create time for people and talk with them. The only thing that I know it has done to me is that I communicate more online than physically but when I have the opportunity I still display my talents as an extrovert.
Possible pitfalls
Yeah I understand that whatever that have advantage also have disadvantage. What should we be watchful for?
Scammers: there are some people you will have online as your friends but they are just there to build trust and then scam. Alot of people have been scammed through online friends and because of that they don't trust anyone online again.
ENDING UP WELL
I think that if people are more careful and causious it will end well. It will only be a big problem if we don't check out before taken someone seriously online. We need to do a proper check up before opening up to someone online to be a trusted friend that we can entrust with our secrets
Your last point is exactly the reason most people don't take online friends seriously.... For one, you can't really know a person's true intentions just by having a chat with them... It takes more than that and longer time to be able to see a person completely