Friendships
It is not unusual for people to have exclusively online friendships. I am talking about people whom you met through some social network and then went to forge close friendships with them. A social network is a nice way to meet people with a common interest. These friendships bloom because it totally takes out the initial awkwardness that comes with opening up with someone. In real life, you rarely meet people purely because they have common interests. It may be because you went to school together or are from the same neighborhood or are part of a community or are they went to college together or were colleagues. Most of these friendships are not friendships for the sake of being friends but are just something you stumble upon. When it comes to online friendships it is totally the opposite. Personally, for me, none of the "friendships", to this date, that were forged online have lasted more than 3 years. There is this odd conversation once in blue moon, but other than tha