As a "young [person]" who meets people online it seems kind of hypocritical to me to say some of things that were said in this post. We're on an online community for people all across the world, we make friends online through this community in order to help us find people with common grounds. I'm not sure about you but I can't afford to travel the world and meet the people I consider friends on this website face to face, whether that be due to time from working and going to school full time or money from paying bills. Also, not every person on the internet is out to lie and get people, they just want someone to talk to that is going through the same thing they are.

As for the original post...FERFA, it could be that you are so used to having everything safe and comfortable that you don't know how to handle losing someone in your life. Low self-esteem could also be an issue. I actually go through the same thing when people say things, I go straight to "What if...are they mad? What?" kind of mode.

I wish you luck.