Have you met someone on the Internet and through your chatting both of you saw something different in each other? Or the relationship between you guys became deeper and more solid as time passed compared to that among ordinary net friends?
I’ve long hoped to find a friend on social media with whom I can share almost everything in my life. But there are some conditions, one of which has to be that the person I’m chatting with should be a foreigner. I’m not racist, but initially I prefer those who come from English speaking countries with a more accepted English accents, which probably are United Kingdom, United States, Australia and so on. Th reason can’t be more evident, that is, I hope to improve my English when I am communicating with that guy I feel comfortable doing so.
Therefore I started seeking potential platforms that provide such services. Some of those are well–known to us all, like Hello Talk, and Tandem. They offer instant communication service. And there’s another app that I’d love to share is Slowly, where users can send a letter (obviously not a real one written by hand) to somebody they’re interested in, and that letter can take hours to even days to arrive at its receiver’s inbox. The time required is based on the real locations between the two individuals and that’s really cool!!
Those memories that I checked my mailbox and replied to my pen pals on my way to the school are still clear in my mind. Hearing the earthquakes happened in Turkey one day, I immediately sent an email to my Turkish friend to check if anything was okay. Thankfully, nothing disastrous happened to her and her family. But the whole situation just couldn’t be seen in a more positive view.
These days I am active on Reddit because of its huge amount of users and its coverage on a wide range of topics. I tried making some friends but that didn’t last long. It’s fine since the friends you have in real life might one day turn into your enemy, so strangers purely chatting online are completely okay to disappear for good, at least they didn’t trade your sincerity or kindness for something feign that benefits themselves. That might be way too much pessimistic, but it makes sense. So don’t take it too personal if others decline you. You just haven’t met the right guys to chat with.
One guy I met on Reddit is elder than me and initially I thought of that person as a girl due to the profile picture’s style and their username. Later when we started chatting on Signal and having our vert first voice chat, I was surprised to hear a man’s voice. It didn’t matter as we got along well with each other and he turned out to be a very nice guy. He is discerning and has a unique view on his life and our world, how things work and what we need to do to pursue a better version of ourselves. But our friendship ended when I declined his invitation to join in his game, a fictional one, to make ourselves motivated and more disciplined to get out of the status quo marching towards a better self, at least that was what he expected.
On “Threads”, the content I consume is mainly from the Chinese language. Currently I’m chatting with a peer and we are doing the simplest thing we can— to share photos and things we’re up to. It’s crazy that I returned to social media and found myself pretty entertained and addicted. Guess that’s fine as long as it doesn’t swallow much of my energy.
Instead of insanely looking for somebody that gives you a shoulder to cry, I wish that I spend more efforts on things that are really good for me. I hope to see myself as somebody who can understand and write poems, have capability on sketching and investment, and master a second foreign language. Of course I want to take beautiful pictures and share with others. Also I’m into cybersecurity things and I crave to launch a cyber attack (definitely on legally allowed places). That’s truly appealing man!