Online friends vs. "IRL" ones

[MalReynolds]

It's fairly simple:

While the modern definition of 'friend' includes affection and personal regard, it's very easy to apply these terms to people you've met over the internet. They're real people living real lives, and the idea that they still dedicate time to you (and vice versa) is often times better than friends who are always there for you - you know their lives. The people over the internet, you may not know every little detail, but you still provide each other with mutual time.

I measure friendships in an odd way. Not just if I have fun with someone, but how much I can get them to confide in me. How well someone trusts me is a huge indicator of how I'm friends with them, and I hope it's the same vice-versa, although I'm a fairly open book when it comes to many, if not all things. One of the first things I got rid of as an actor were my shames. My dirty laundry became public so that no one could find out and use it against me, and I try to keep my personal life as public as possible when it comes to my friends. Without complete trust, I really think you have nothing.

Is it possible to trust someone over the internet? Surely. You can trust them with all kinds of information, and what would it matter if they told someone else? It wouldn't.

Anyways, I've rambled quite a bit and made no real point.

Ta!