I can't maintain online friendships. Why?

It's hard for me to continue posting to a livejournal or be actively involved in any type of online community. At some point I always feel ousted/rejected by the people I've come to consider "online friends." I'd rather just cut off all ties than try to mend these relationships, no matter how longstanding. I always feel as if there are some strange internet social networking protocols that I am unconsiously violating.

I can't maintain online friendships. Why?
Humans evolved to have friendships with people that we see every day, people we talk to face to face and hang out with. The Internet has only existed for a decade or so. It puts people in social situations that we have no prior experience with, trying to maintain relationships with people whom you may never even have actually seen.
Reply:I can't even maintain normal friendships...
Reply:it happens. try not to get too attached to the people you "meet" online. you never know if they are really who they present themselves to be... its so easy to lie or to put on a "persona" when you are online.





just have fun and take things light!!
Reply:Try to make real off line friends and learn what works and doesn't from them. If you want to keep trying on line as well then borrow from your "real world" experience.
Reply:online is not place for true friendship.


it is for fun, not for serious things.
Reply:If you don't have the time to interact on line. Maybe you have too many groups. Start one of your own,and invite the people you consider friends to join.
Reply:What you have is not friendship. It is a group of anonymous strangers. Please practice your social skills and make friends in the real world that you can be involved with online too. Those are the friendships that endure.
Reply:I disagree - online can be the place for friendships. You can make a connection with someone whether they are on the other side of the world or in your lounge room.





Perhaps its just easier for you to sever ties because you do not have to physically interact with these people. And thats ok too... Are these patterns evident in your other friendships?
Reply:Some day it will click for you.
Reply:When it cimes to online friendships you'll most likely stop talkin to that person because when most peolpe meet new people online they are usualy in different states and probple don't get on the computer as much to socialize with online friends because they may have lots of other frienda were they live.
Reply:don't fret this is a common thing.





i do the same exact thing.





i know many at work who suffer this also.





i can't explain it, maybe it's because this is so not tangible and we can't really see them or feel them so it's not real to us?





?





there's a number of explainations i know.
Reply:What he said!