What are the pros and cons of making friends online?

The positives of making friends online is that there is the absence of gating features. So certain things you are insecure about are not displayed online so you can make connections with people without feeling vulnerable about your insecurities. This absence of gating features can mean you make friends with an almost fictional person as people can cut and paste and edit how people perceive them. A postive is that when you meet people online you usually have a common interest and that interest maybe a niche so you can actually have a stronger connection than people you meet in real life as there is a higher level of disclosure in a smaller frame of time online than in person. However these friends maybe all over the world which is cool because it gives you the opportunity to travel to cool places but it kind of sucks because you cannot see them everyday.

The pros of making friend online is that it's easier to open up. It's easier to open up because some people find it easier to write to people than talking to them in person. And you have the choice to go anonymous . The con of making online friends is that you'll never know who to trust, you can set yourself up for danger, and you can be taken advantage of. When you're online it's harder to tell if people are lying or telling the truth but mot of the time you might believe them because the way the word their things. You're could set yourself up for danger by talking to completely stranger then trusting them 10 minutes later this could also lead into them taking advantage of you.

Lots of things can go well and not so well as it is difficult to know who we are talking/communicating other side. Only, pros I see is a social contact without any anxiety. But, there are serious risks of identity related safety. In case, the other person has some different motive than you do, it can be pretty serious. We don't realize in long conversation and end up disclosing some important information which may compromise life safety. Sometimes, the online friendship leads to abuses and bulley. It is impotant to keep doing fact checks often in online relationships.

The pros of making friends online are: 1. You can be at your best since you can choose the things you just want to say and filter those you don't want them to know yet. 2. You can tell them things about you and you won't be judged because they do not know you personally. 3. You can block them if they're predators. Cons: 1. You're not sure if they are telling the truth about themselves or just filtering things out like you do. 2. You are not sure if they will reply or respond to you or not. 3. You can't see how they're really feeling or emotions shown in their faces and body language when you're talking online with them.

Pros: you have a new friend. Cons: They are not who you think they are and you get with the wrong person.

For me, I’ve had a lot of pros. Online friends to me seem nicer and more loyal than people you could meet in real life. You also might agree on more things or have more things in common than your friends in real life. A lot of the time online friends will share some of the same interests as you. Some cons I would say are if they live in a different country than you, the time zone might be different from yours, so you might be available at different times. Another con I guess is that you can’t talk to them in real life like you can with your friends in real life.

You meet new people around the world, You talk to them in real time. You can find out new things, you can find what is happening around the world. You can also introduce new things and get people to know about you and what your likes are. But it can also be risky. because you do not know who you are talking to, or what they are like. anyone can be anyone behind a computer, they could be hackers or stalkers, they could spread untrue things about you. They could use online abuse by trolling you from miles away