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It's true that you never really know the person at the other end of the Internet and I am wary of getting too friendly (ie sharing too much personal info) with people I don't actually know in real life.
But I can't knock social interactions via the Internet too much because that's how me and hubby got together. We actually met at work but due to shyness on both sides, we emailed each other for months and built up a friendship online before he finally asked me out on a date. So it all broke the ice. Perhaps without that, we might have not dared to make a move.
I use Facebook but only for people who I actually know in real life. My neices, on the other hand, brag about having hundreds of friends on facebook but how many of them do they really know in the flesh?
Obviously real friendships can be formed online but real people, ones I can see, are always going to be more important to me.
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