For the past year and a half or more, I’ve lived most of my life within online communities, and having friends from these communities has become a part of my reality.
Some people have criticized my way of living and the social life I have, saying that friends online are not real friends. For a while, I believed them, because I was hurt by someone some people whom I met online. But now, I can really say this – that my friends whom I’ve met online are as real as the …