Is it bad if someone only wants a friendship online.. No meeting face to face just texting

only if you don't want the same thing

Not as long as you are up front about it and not stringing someone along

Am okay with it but won't it get old??

do you get bored with your friends quickly in real life?

Depends on what you are looking for. I have a couple online friends I have talked to pretty much daily for the past 3 years. Friendship is all I am looking for though

Won't it get old?. Well if it does just try using the other hand

it would only get old if you have a crush on them , like them more then a friend , or they where not up front about only wanting to be friends

i have a few friend we have chatted more then 10 years online
we have never met in person
it has never gotten old
<shrug>

no I don't. I just love making new friends but certain people don't like it cause you don't get to meet

Perhaps virtual friendships are the best if one is really serious about it & if it's future scope too is clearly kept virtual from beginning.

I dunno...if it was boring every day surface level BS chit chat

yep that would drive me bonkers which is why I have no patience for it




if you could get beyond that to an actual conversation about something real? then maybe



I had an ongoing conversation with a man that lasted couple years
we would talk online and text on phone and call each other once in awhile
we would talk about kids...he lived with a woman with two girls
and had some issues with being like a 'stepdad' with them
so we talked about parenting things
we talked about how I was doing mentally and emotionally as I was going thru my divorce
we talked about how it sucks sometimes being alone
how it feels when you know you are dating or staying with someone
just to be with someone instead of being alone
we laughed and joked with each other
we cared about each other


it is what I call a real friendship
or real as it can get with two people who never met

we called it off
or rather I did
when he said he was having thoughts of leaving his girlfriend
finding me in Michigan
picking me up on his bike
and heading for California

oh I knew he was not going to really do it
he knew I would never leave my kids here
or leave school for anyone

but it was enough for me to know
I needed to cut it off with him
and allow him to have peace in his life
without this chaotic redhead turning his head
and my life was in state of chaos at that time

I would love something like that. Its soo cool

That's funny lol

In and of itself, no.
As a symptom of something "bad?"
Very.


As soon as you realize you are in a relationship with your computer or phone and the relationship is entirely pointless, it will get old extremely fast.

Although, some people that are just too scared to face reality can spend years in denial by sitting online building fake relationships.

But, online fake friendships beat sending threatening letters to movie stars telling them how they "get" you, and you are "meant" to be together, and how your love transcends all.
At least you'll stay off watch lists and out of jail.

I have some very very close friends that I have never met online.
We chat about all kinds of things and we talk on the phone.
There is nothing romantic with any of them.

So No as long as it is friends only then no one is going to get hurt.
If someone leads someone else on by showing interest romantically and know in their heart they will meet the person then it is very bad IMO

Before we had the internet, we had Pen Friends, just people who were interested in becoming friends with other people that usually lived far apart from one another, sometimes different countries, and they would write and post letters to each other. (What we now call snail mail). These people never met each other, but were happy to exchange views, talk about their lives, their culture in some instances, just friendship. So it certainly is not bad for someone to only want friendship online, in fact there are websites dedicated for finding Pen Friends, although I guess all corresponding would be by email these days. However, ask yourself what it is you want, if you are looking to meet up with someone at sometime in the future, it seems you would be wasting your time. Never be in a hurry to give anyone your personal contact details, stay emailing on the site for a few weeks, if they are genuine it should not be a problem for them, and if they are scammers they will soon disappear, just be careful and stay safe.

Welcome to Mingle2 and good luck in your search.

Yes it is so so bad like really

Yes. It's bad to waste people's time and it's rather creepy.

That's the simple answer. What are you talking about? Someone in a relationship that wants a pretend one on the side? What do you mean by a "relationship"? Do you mean like with a penpal or is it more like visiting someone on death row, or a lifer, that you say that you love, when you can never be together in any normal sense?

Why don't you want a normal relationship? What's wrong with you is the real question.

.. I suppose it's a bit weird if they live near you.. but they only want to stay as text friends and never meet.. but on the other hand maybe they just don't find you physically. Attractive. are they themselves are not physically attractive.. and fear you will not like them in person...

But you, are they !do enjoy exchanging pleasant text messages together... or whatever you are doing online together..wink wink a dinky.

.lol.... personally I don't really see a problem with that.. I talk to lots of people on here !all the time and I will probably never meet them... but then I have offline lady friends... that I see all the time.. And would prefer they don't text me very often.. okay I don't mind if they text me when they have something to say... but it is the good morning baby texts... have a great day... that gets a bit tedious.. ok maybe if I wasn't getting .. sent good morning messages by six different women every morning it would be.. less tedious..