What are the pros and cons of making friends online?

Pros: It's easier to meet diverse people, You can narrow your search by common interests and what not, More convenient than actual in-person friends. Cons: very impersonal, most likely won't ever get to meet these people, people troll and lie.

When you become really close with them you want to tell them anything and everything, but you can’t actually be with them in person.

You can sometimes meet some reallt nice people who you can trust but the bad thing is you never know if the persom uou are talking to online is actually who they say they are and you cant trust someone who you've never met

Okay making friends online can be fun however from personal experience you can be whoever you wish to be online. You really need to leave online friends as just that and only make them real friends if you meet in real time at a function or on another occasion. It is so easy to miscommunicate in the written word too. If someone actually doesn't articulate very well it can be damaging. We need in life to become friends first and for most to build trusting relationships and staying consistent seems to be the key with anything relationship wise I in life.

Pros: you can make a lot of “friends”, you can find people with similar interests. Cons: I don’t think anything can replace face to face human contact.

Its hard to always be 100% certain if you who you see on the other side is authentic. They also aren't fully aware of your situation meaning that they might not be the most helpful. Whilst they can feel safer you don't know what they are actually doing. It also means you fail to develop all of the social skills.

PROS: -feel like you won't get judged necessarily on looks or appearance -you generally meet over something mutual, like a game, fan of something or someone CONS: -they aren't physically there -you can't always trust everyone

Pros, it’s easier, a lot of the times people are nicer, you don’t have to show you’re face, you can be yourself. Cons, people lie, people can be inappropriate, they can scam you

Many online friends can be fake, or not be who they say they are. But, online friends can give advice, and talk to you when you need someone to talk to.

Pros are...I can help people and they could possibly help me. Cons...you never really know who you are talking to.