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Old Apr 10, 2019, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
But even if you shared intimate details of your life with these people, several of them ghosted you or stopped replying. So possibly they weren’t really real friends? Sharing intimate details isn’t enough to make people true friends. It might actually be easier to share intimate details with anonymous people online. In real life it takes some time to open your heart. And it’s sometimes challenging to be vulnerable. It might be easier online. Just a thought
Interesting perspective, thanks, Divine. I’ve been ghosted twice in five or more years. Some have come and gone and have been fleeting, much like real life. It’s a different world online I suppose. But yeah I felt these friendships were real based on the intimacy shared.
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