How to develop true friendship over the net???

[ellacruz]

With nothing to do I started to browse at my computer today, suddenly a question popped up to my mind, would it be possible for us to have "TRUE FRIENDS" here??? I stopped and pondered. I realized that its been quite a long time since I started chatting. I do meet alot of people over the NET but none of them are "REAL FRIENDS". And now I find it boring to chat and answering the basic question "ASL PLEASE".

As I recall when I was a kid, having friends is not a problem for me anywhere and everywhere! During trips with my family, I end up having friends in different places. Back at home we exchange letters which strengthened our friendship until now. And thinking that technology is not yet available during those times and yet I have "TRUE FRIENDS" with me. I say its Quality and not Quantity.

Now, we are living in what they call "Space Age" with a very sophisticated technology. People around the globe are chatting with each other almost all of the time. Each one wants to meet more and more and more they can garner. But as we can see that its more of quantity they are after and not quality friends. So I find it very difficult to find a Real Friends over the net not unless we can come up with something.

Is there a way that "TRUE FRIENDSHIP" can be developed over the NET???

[sbhuvan]

shall i be ur frnd
hi iam bhuvanesh shall we be a nice frnds if u wish

[purefriendship]

My dear ellacruz and sbhuvan,
It is possible to develop the virtual online friendship in to real friendship, which is based upon the trust, understanding and like minded thoughts shared evenly in frequent intervals.
Friendship is a great art. Love has a natural instinct behind it;
friendship has no natural instinct behind it. Friendship is something conscious;
A friendship is possible only between two empty boats.
Then you are open to the other, inviting to the other, then you are constantly an invitation, come to me, enter me, be with me.
How can you be friendly?
With the ego there is no possibility of friendship. Then friendship is just a mask.
Even if you pretend to be friendly, that is just show, strategy, diplomacy.
Nobody can be a friend here unless the ego disappears.
Once the ego disappears the whole life has a quality of friendship, of love.
Then you are friendly, simply friendly and to everybody, because there is no problem. You are not trying to be the first, so you are not more a competitor. this is real dropping out.
Friendship is the purest love.It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
One gets much, but that is secondary, and that happens of its own accord.
Friends never possess each other.The most fundamental thing in friendship is to give freedom to the other to be himself.
There is a trust, there is no need to dominate the other; there is no need to chain him, through conditions , for tomorrow.
Between two friends only one thing exists that bridges them,and that is trust;
Friendship has its own beauty, and if you can enjoy it, it is better than a love affair. A love affair is always jumpy.
There are moments of happiness but they are few and far between.
There are also many miserable moments.
A friendship is a more solid thing; moves on. plainer ground.
Friendship has a deeper equilibrium than love.
Friendship means that you have made somebody else more important than yourself; somebody else has become more precious than you, yourself.
On the other websites where i am a member and in long run, made many friends and met them in person and keep in touch with them on day to day basis too..
Love and lots of it Dear ones
subbu