What are the pros and cons of making friends online?

Pros: You have someone to talk to and you don't have to meet up with them. Cons: It is a bit dangerous.

Making friends online can let you zero in on topics you both are interested in really quickly. You can feel more secure discussing more private feelings/issues. But making friends online also can be misleading/disguising in that, you only hear their words, without the nonverbal cues. You also only see a fragment of who they are (what they want you to see). They could also be hiding their true intentions.

Pros: *You meet people from all over the world *You can meet people with similar interests who you may not find in your real-life friend group *You can talk to people without fears or judgement(in my experience at last) *You can meet members of the LGBT+ community, who may form a minority in your area (again from personal experience) Cons: *Stranger danger *You may have to encounter plenty of strange people and endure inappropriate conversations before meeting genuinely nice people *Having internet friends might (being the keyword here) distance you from your non-virtual life

Pros are meeting great, normal, caring humans and developing intellectual relations. Cons would be the catfish issue and deceit online.

Wow, this one's a tough one. You get to connect with anyone from different places. >You can chat with them from distances. >It makes you popular over social media. >More friends means more likes, followers and comments. More notifications. >You are able to socialize more and appeal with many people. >It gives you a chance to become a celebrity in refer to the point of being popular. Cons, however, is a lot compared to pros. >People will see information or data about you, may be used as an advantage. >Spammers. >Connecting with some places is a drawback because of different timezone. >I doubt that some people would even remain friends with who they added. >Yes, getting a lot of followers warns that you can't always please everyone inside the internet.

Sometimes it's easier to open up to people you've met through a screen, it's easier to talk to them about your problems or feelings, while you can't really do that in real life. But you also have to realize that even though they'll try to be there for you, it's kinda hard to do so physically, they can't give you a hug or just simply hang out with you whenever you want. Also it's nice to have a wider connection thingy, like you'll know more people and learn more about others' culture for example. It's easier to connect with people and find people with the same interest or personality.

The pros of making friends online is that you can talk to more people than just the people around you and they will be able to support you if you can't get support from the peers around yourself, the cons are that you never know who that person may be, or their intentions.

Some cons of making friends online is that they could always be fake as in personality and in looks and some pros is that you can always rely on someone you know will always hear you plus you can save your conversations

Pros: they are easy to communicate and most of the time they have really similar interests like you. Cons: Most of the time they live really far away or they aren't what you think they truly are...