Making is for me. Just meeting someone takes way too much for me. And making isn’t much easier as I somehow find it way to people now and all of the sudden people don’t want me at meetings cause I don’t use a .

#friends #superhard #inperson #preparation #onlinefriends #harder #message #virtual #zoom #camera

Last updated 1 year ago

Digital_Archivist · @Digital_Archivist
1050 followers · 3594 posts · Server aus.social

DA is so happy to know such lovely people on Mastodon. We are so lucky Mastodon is such a welcoming and exciting platform

#onlinefriends #friendly #mastodon #friendliness #everyonewelcome #thankyou

Last updated 2 years ago

In 2020 I wrote a blog post about my great-grandfather's first family before he married my great-grandmother. No one in my family knew about this, or the fact that he and his first-wife lost their first child in infancy. Last week a member of his first wife's family, after reading my post, shared with me an image of that child. This is George Elmer Bentz (1912-1912) and his grandmother.

noel-poirier.com/2020/05/30/th

#familyhistory #genealogy #connections #onlinefriends

Last updated 2 years ago

· @Rootvegrockstar
36 followers · 58 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

Yesterday I got to meet someone I have been online friends with for 15 years.

We met on a mum and baby pregnancy forum and there's a group of women who have always kept in touch over the Web.

I think that shows the power and need for positive online spaces.

#themigration #onlinefriends

Last updated 2 years ago

deutrino · @deutrino
449 followers · 13111 posts · Server mstdn.io

How tilted to your preferred gender are your ? I'm a guy & most of my wonderful online friends are women, that's why I ask.

For me I think it's a mix of a bit more incentive to make contact, followed by attrition - my online guy friends fade away more easily, and I think that comes from both sides, not just me.

#onlinefriends #heteroromantic #introspection #gender #friendship #ipals

Last updated 7 years ago