Friends inside the computer

Staying with the NaBloPoMo theme of friends, I have to talk about my awesome friends inside the computer. And all over the country (world?)

It is twentyeleven, folks.  The days of meeting your next best friend at the grocery store, corner market or play ground are pretty much over.  Everyone is freaked by, well, everyone else.  Or too nervous to say “hey!” to the normal looking person in aisle 3. (me included, although I say hi to lots of strangers because I like it) ((does that make me the creepy girl in aisle 3?))

So how do we make friends as adults? 

We meet them inside the computer.

On facebook.

On Twitter.

Through blogs, message boards, forums and all the other social media formats that exist.

And  you guys?

These are, honest to goodness, some of my closest friends.  Friends that I would do anything for, hands down. That have been there for me when others were not. that offered hugs and encouragement through email, text messages, twitter shout outs and all that jazz.  It is amazing how well I know people I have never met (and they know me), how much I trust them and honestly care for them.  Kind of fun too because they tend to offer much more objective, outside the box opinions when I really need them – and I like that.  I wish I could have coffee, playdates, girls nights with those people more than the friends who I met outside the computer sometimes. 

What is really fun about friends inside the computer, is that sometimes they become friends outside the computer too.  I have been really lucky to make some really REALLY good friends this way, that live close to me and that we hang out with on the regular.  It’s fun.  But we will talk about the outside the computer friends on a later day.

Tell me about your inside the computer friends.  Do you love them as much as I do?

Thanks, inside the computer friends, for being so awesome!