A2K virtual Friends

And sometimes it's even funnier when they become part of the 'real' world.

We met with dyslexia, Diane and Roger in Denver last year while I was there on business. My colleagues still talk about my 'strange internet friends'.

It's your own fault, if you decide to introduce them to dys, Diane, and Roger.

Hey, I was pretty proud to introduce them! I actually think these three are the coolest people I know...

i do it all the time

most folks here seem more real than the people i meet day to day

This forum reminds me of the days I would sit around a NYC bar and discuss the trivial and the monumental with friends. Then everyone got married and moved to Jersey.

I love the diversity and intelligence of the people here. I even love the wacky idiots (you can decide who is who for yourself). Often I see a post and think "I can't wait to see what "so & so" will say about that".

I am a long time member of another forum that is much more conservative and has very little humor. Nice people, I learn stuff, but I often have to censor myself in order not to create hurt feeling - mine and theirs.
To my own self I am true on A2K.

I do the exact same thing, Chai! I sit here at the computer and all of a sudden I'm cracking up, so my boyfriend asks what's going on...Then I have to try to tell him who said what, but it's just like trying to tell someone about some funny conversation you had with real life friends... they don't know the friends, and they don't get why it's so funny because they don't know so-and-so.

That thread about how much Americans like panda had me giggling at how bad Slappy is. I just told my boyfriend, "Oh, it's just that darn Slappy Doo Hoo again, I can't explain it!"

Another thing I've noticed is things that happen in real life make me think, "oh, I should tell everybody on A2K about that!" Or, "I'd like to see what so-and-so would say about that!" (I should mention again, I've been here a lot longer than it shows on my li'l info box there to the left... I just changed usernames )

I'll second that! :wink:

if it were ever possible I'd be wanting to meet as many A2K people as possible

I've met a few people from A2K. Devil-worshipping potheads, all of 'em.

cool

I came to Vermont to escape real people...strange, they seem to have followed. The idea of meeting some of you folks scares the daylights out of me...with certain others though, the idea is sort of intriguing.

there's no escape

My "real" friends are imaginary anyway, well, except for my action figures, which are made out of real plastic, but even so, I totally know what you guys mean.

I'll be telling He-Man or Optimus Prime (he's a Transformer, to you lay people) about some wacky thread, and they'll just start cracking up.

Patches McWhiskers, an imaginary friend who is half-man and half-feline, well, he doesn't get it. He thinks it's weird that I have "computer friends."

And I'm like YOU'RE the wierdo, Patches.

Sheesh!

off the meds again garg

We bake the realness right in, with every post, using tinfoil and flying spaghetti.

Okay, now the secret's out.

Chai Tea,

I tell my husband stuff that people say on here and he looks at me like I'm nuts. I guess to him they just aren't real people or somethig.

That's so much easier if your husband is on a2k, too! He was here first and I as the one wondering what he was doing at the computer for hours and hours.

Some of my best friends are from a2k now.

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I thought I had met the world's most delightful loonies on A2K until I met a man at a recent dinner party who believes alien astronauts landed on the earth centuries ago and begat the first human beings.

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