September 2011
215 posts
“It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums.”
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— Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter (via pitcherplant)
forealz I would have absolutely no friends if not for the internet. I mean no exaggeration - of my closest friends, I met maybe two IRL and we would never have kept in touch anyway if not for das interweb.
(via aeromachia)
yeah i wouldnt have met the people i currently live with if it were not for the internet
never mind most of the other people I consider my closest friends
like, people who come on family holidays with me and whose parents now know my parents?
whereas i am only still BUDDIES with one person i met at secondary school (ilu gatty)
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
— Franz Kafka (via zenhumanism)
