Making #friends is #superhard for me. Just meeting someone #inperson takes way too much #preparation for me. And making #onlinefriends isn’t much easier as I somehow find it way #harder to #message people now and all of the sudden people don’t want me at #virtual #Zoom meetings cause I don’t use a #camera.

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

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.

http://noel-poirier.com/2020/05/30/the-first-bentz-family/

#familyhistory #genealogy #connections #onlinefriends

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

How tilted to your preferred gender are your #onlinefriends? I'm a #heteroromantic 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.

#introspection #gender #friendship #iPals