By Royane Real

Author of  “Your Guide to Finding Friends, Making Friends and Keeping Friends”

The Internet has only been around for a few years, but it’s already changing a lot of the ways in which people meet each other, and the way that we communicate with others.  Can you really make a friend online?

The Internet, if used correctly, can greatly improve your social life by helping you connect with other people. It can help you find more friends and have more friends.

You can use the Internet to easily find new friends who share your interests, and you can even use the Internet to find the soul mate of your dreams.  You can use the internet to easily keep in touch with others and update them on your new activities and the important events in your life. 

For example, e-mail enables us to update our friends and loved ones instantly.  It’s easy to forget that a hundred years ago people had to wait for weeks and weeks to get a letter from their friends and relations.  And of course, social media sites like facebook and others help people stay in touch in ways that are evolving new forms very quickly.

Today it takes just a matter of seconds to receive a letter or a brief note from your friend who lives thousands of miles away.

One of the greatest ways in which the internet can help us make new friends or find soul mates happens because on the Internet it can be so easy to find like-minded people who share our interests.  When we meet these people on the Internet, we can form a sense of connection and community with them, even though they might live half a world away. 

The internet allows us to become friends with many different people that we would never be able to meet any other way.

Using the Internet, you can easily find people who share your interests, such as drag-racing, or collecting salt shakers, or making quilts.  And you can find the people who share your interests in a matter of just a few seconds.  They are all just a mouse click away!

The amazing powers of the Internet allow you to come into contact with people who live a world away who have the same interests and opinions as you have, or who are struggling with similar problems as those you are facing.

When you’re on the Internet, time can just fly by.  You can visit chat rooms and forums devoted to topics that are important to you, and you can easily get in contact with other people who have the same interests, or share the same problems. 

No matter what your problem is, you can probably find a group of people on the Internet who have faced the same problem, and who are ready to befriend you.

You can find other people who have struggled with problems you might be facing such as cancer, or fibromyalgia, or living with a drunken or addicted spouse.  When you meet people who share what you’re going through, you can use the Internet to exchange messages of hope and compassion.  You can offer each other encouragement to get through the tough times, and exchange suggestions and solutions. 

Because the internet is so anonymous, you can find yourself pouring out your heart to someone you don’t know.  You might feel free to pour out your heart and your deepest emotions to someone you only know on line, because you feel protected by being anonymous and far away from the person that you’re emailing.

For example, if you happen to be house bound because you have health problems, then interacting with somebody on the internet can help you feel much less isolated. 

If you are very shy, you may find that it’s much easier to express yourself on the internet than it is to try talk with your next door neighbor.

When you email your online friends, you might feel as if your on-line friends give you support and encouragement at a time when you don’t feel the same support from the people in your daily life. 

Today there are many sites on the Internet that can help you create and join social networks just for fun, or you can join together to work on some important cause.

Some relationships that start off on the Internet will develop into long term on-line friendships that last for decades, even if the two correspondents never meet in person.

Yes, it is possible to make a friend online!  In some cases, relationships that start off on the Internet turn into happy, long term, relationships in the real world.  This can be true for romantic relationships, as well as friendships between two people who simply met on the Internet.  In fact, more and more people are using the awesome power of the Internet as a way to meet others.

Just like our ancestors a hundred years ago who were waiting by their mailboxes couldn’t have imagined the changes that would come in the future, no doubt there are many more amazing new ways that will be invented for us to communicate with each other.

We’re still just at the beginning of the Internet revolution.  There will be many new changes that the Internet will bring in the future to the way that we meet new friends and the way we communicate with others.  Those changes that the Internet will have on our lives and on our relationships in the future can’t be imagined yet. 

This article was written by friendship expert Royane Real

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