I have started doing the Internet back in 2005 because I had agoraphobia and it IS harder to keep online buddies; often they disappear on us.

It can be bewildering and even hurtful. I remember making my first friend on yahoo and I would chat with her---one moment we are talking about something very deep, then the next, she doesnt talk to me for 10 minutes and I don't know if she is laughing at me or what. I finally stopped talking to her and blocked her. I did email her and ask her what was up, and she goes, "Oh, Billi, I was chatting on facebook." I thought, if she's doing that, she could have said, "Billi, I have go now. see you in 10 minutes?"

But everybody's different; different expectations and the Internet is kind of weird that way. Lots of misunderstandings.

Billi