you make fiends in SL and all of a sudden they don't show up there anymore

same with plurk

or any other online site

I always hated that, thats why I dont get too close to most people in SL anymore

on the other hand, I met my RL husband there, so ya never know

friends are friends, no matter what sites they use, which country they are from but

on the other hand, is it friendship if it is conditional? like you can only be my friend when you logon to SL or send me a plurk message

?

twinky, but you met him in RL

I am talking about online only

like people you never meet in RL

yes, I understand

I have had several SL friends that just disappear, and has made me really sad

yes, that is sad

I think it is just natural to want to extend it to RL in some way

even if it's just a friendship

you think that person cares about you as much as you care about them and the poof, they are gone

i had a hard time with that

same here twinky , I hear you

too many treat SL like a game

in the other hand, they might have had an accident or something , or are in hospital in ICU and can't be online and have no way to tell you

or someone might have hurt them and they were so upset, they left for good and were not able to inform everybody

the issue may not be in their side

they een may still care

even

did yountryto contact them, twinky? did you send them email?

yes, that is true

I several IM's

would be good to have the friendship extended in RL and have their phone number or something

then they show up a few months later

for a few days then nothing again

buy it is not only about ppl hat leave and never show up again

buy=but

it is also about ppl who think they can hurt you coz you haven't got a face

yes, there are a lot of people like that

someone hurt me so much, I have left SL as well

so I am one of the people that go away when hurt too much

I have been burned a few times before I met my husband

I even swore off SL relationships for a while

I tend to care about people too much

good you found a husband that cared as well

yes, I was very lucky, he had been burned a couple times as well. we both got lucky