Have you ever had an "Internet Buddy"?

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Back in the early days of having a computer, I met a woman from Australia. Now, this is back in the days, when emailing somebody in Oz was a big deal. Emailing Australia! Wow! For over 6 years and thousands of emails, we followed each others families going through their soap opera lives. We knew who was sleeping with who. Unfortunately, disease stopped our emailing. Even though we had never actually met, we were good friends.
Have you ever had an email buddy?

Every time I see a poster from OZ, I think of her.
 

Over a just a few recent years I have been fortunate to have developed good relationships with several Internet Buddies.

Sorry you lost yours Fuzzy; 6 years is a long time.:(
 
Yes, 2, One in OZ & one in Fresno. We still e-mail but not as much as previously.

BTW; Both are women.
 

Yes. Many years ago, I was a member of a small forum and we all became good internet friends. I have visited and been visited by several of them over the years and one lady and I have become very good friends. We always get together whenever one of us visits the other one's city. We also correspond frequently and keep up on all the news.
 
Yes I have a close friend who I "met" here on SF from the U.S ..( I'm Australian born and bred ) she and I "talk" most days via email ...we don't waste of time on gossip, we just talk about everyday happenings in our life .she is always interested in hearing about Australia ..and myself on what is happening over there (with the exception of politics) we get all that over here every day on our TV ....so. I don't need to read about it on forums .:eewwk::eewwk:


.I've just had a birthday and I received a beautiful card and a special gift she made espically for me .

We have never met .,but we may one day ..who knows ..I'd love to go over to the US but the thought of flying that long puts me off
 
Yes. I have had pen pals in England and in Czechoslovakia in the past. I have also had Internet friends who I e-mailed with but never met. One lived in Holland and the rest were here in the U.S.

I was on a really friendly chat board at one time that had annual get-togethers in one state or another. I never had the money to attend and didn't want to do so much driving alone. Also, almost all of them were married. The ones that were not married traveled with a sister or daughter. They were a great bunch of people.
 
I've never been one to cultivate friends (always been more of a loner) but there are one or two folks that I'd call "Internet / Cyber Buddies" that I've met here on SF.

Shhhhh.....I think I've almost got them convinced that I'm rollin' in dough, have a couple of yachts, a private jet, villas in three countries and that I'm the most handsome SOB that they've ever laid eyes on.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Back in the early days of having a computer, I met a woman from Australia. Now, this is back in the days, when emailing somebody in Oz was a big deal. Emailing Australia! Wow! For over 6 years and thousands of emails, we followed each others families going through their soap opera lives. We knew who was sleeping with who. Unfortunately, disease stopped our emailing. Even though we had never actually met, we were good friends.
Have you ever had an email buddy?

Every time I see a poster from OZ, I think of her.
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I have many internet friends since 1998..We have a private FaceBook page (all male) that we use daily!!Stuff we like to see and not get the family involved..
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Back in the early days of having a computer, I met a woman from Australia. Now, this is back in the days, when emailing somebody in Oz was a big deal. Emailing Australia! Wow! For over 6 years and thousands of emails, we followed each others families going through their soap opera lives. We knew who was sleeping with who. Unfortunately, disease stopped our emailing. Even though we had never actually met, we were good friends.
Have you ever had an email buddy?

Every time I see a poster from OZ, I think of her.
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Your story is so similar to mine. Back in the days of yahoo chat rooms I stumbled onto a girl from NZ. We chatted and chatted and she wanted my phone number. I can't believe I gave it to her but low and behold she called. She had that OZ/ NZ type accent and she laughed at mine. We corresponded via email, chat rooms and over the phone a few times. She later confided in me she had Leukemia and had a sister to die from it. She traveled to OZ for treatments but I'm guessing she later passed away because she slowly stopped emailing me. This was a good 12-15 years ago. But I too have reminders of her.....as in this thread.
 
I've had a few internet buddies over that past years and some of them have become good friends even though we have never met face to face. One of them, Bev, I met playing an MMO and she and I played different ones together for nearly 15 years. One night last August I logged into a game we had been playing and she didn't show up that night. Found out the next day from her daughter that Bev had died in an auto accident the previous day. The news devastated me for several days. The family even streamed her service online since they knew she had many fellow gaming friends online.
 
I had one many years ago. Same scenerio as the OP's. Great chats and great friends. Nothing inappropriate. We were both happily married. It was nice having someone to talk to and to exchange life stories with. We eventually quit communicating. Married people are not supposed to have good friends of the opposite sex and I think that put a damper on our friendship.
 

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