How To Make Friends Online

By Leeanne Utiger
Making friends online can initially be a scary and daunting thought. So many people from all over the world, and all using technology to get to know one another.

However, this can be one of the easiest things you may ever accomplish doing. It’s really quite simple and only you make your own rules to follow, in making this a successful venture.

There are many Internet Dating and Friendship Sites available all over the world – therefore bringing the whole world together in one way or another. Many of these sites cater for international members as well as local residents. Most of these online dating and friendship sites have messageboard forums available, some at a cost and some at no cost. The messageboard feature is a great way to sit back and get to know what a person is like without having to approach them right off the bat (so to speak). Then, once you establish who you like the sound of, or who appeals to you/catches your eye, you may choose to then make use of the email function, which these online sites have available to you.




You have full control over what you wish to divulge to another, therefore making friends online can be achieved at your own pace. There is very little difference to making friends online as there is to making friends offline. The primary difference is you are at home in front of a computer and not out and about physically amongst people.

However how you portray yourself to others should be no different to how you portray yourself in person, face to face with another. By being yourself, others will ‘see’ what sort of person you are, and what attributes you have that make you – you! Given this, if someone ‘sees’ something they like in you or in what you have to say amongst the varying activities available in an online community – an online friendship will slowly begin to take place.

Put yourself out there. Contribute to the online banter and conversations going on around you. You will find that in general members that partake in messageboard forums are very welcoming and help new members to settle in. You will then begin to have fun and enjoy your online time. Friendships come naturally, and this can be said for the same as Online Friendships. You will always find plenty of members in such online sites who are more than willing to assist you or give advice when you feel you need it, or are not sure about something – whether that be an arising online issue, or a feature/function of the site you are not sure how to make use of. You will find that it is very easy to find the same similarities and likenesses in another as what you yourself hold.


Once you begin to settle in and get to ‘know’ a few people, it all becomes easier and the in trepidation you once felt will exist no longer. You do in fact become a part of a little or in some cases, a wide online friendship community.

To elevate the online friendships to something more, on getting to ‘know’ another at a level you feel happy and comfortable with, you can then make the choice of moving the online friendship up to an offline friendship. But there is no need to rush things or even do this. It is quite simply entirely up to you.

You are always in the comfort of your own home, so you do not have to feel pressured at any given time. If you get tired or just don’t want to partake any more, you can log out at any stage.

Just remember – be yourself…!

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