The internet can help you find new friends, pen pals, relationships, love, dating and activity partner's group meetings, sports, movies and so forth.
The internet is a way for family members living far from home, to keep close contact with their loved ones and it is a prime medium for friends living in various areas to communicate.
The internet has definitely changed the relationships of your friends for the better.
You now can find where some of your friends are that have moved and keep in contact with them no matter where they are in the world.
The relationships and friendships one builds with people through the internet are totally different than in real life.
Friendships online start-up completely online but over time can develop into a traditional friendship where you are going out for lunch, going shopping together, and even talking on the phone about the latest gossip.
Making friends is not easy for a lot of people and for some the thought of speaking to others is terrifying and the internet can make meeting people much convenient for people who are non-sociable.
The internet can only improve you current friendships and also you can establish internet friendships with people from various backgrounds from anywhere in the world.
The internet will change the dynamic of your friends' relationships with each other for better by opening the lines of communication.
In traditional friendship a majority of the communication is done through the telephone or face to face.
When you include the internet into your friendships it broadens the lines of communication by communicating through emails, instant messaging, or even through blogs this gives friendships additional ways to communicate if other methods may fail.
The use of the internet can create electronic friendships but will never replace the current social connections that exist today.
In my opinion electronic friendships are hollow compared to true traditional friendships.
There are many emotional cues that people give face to face, such as smiling and laughing, which are impossible to fake, whereas online it is easy to say "You are wonderful, I love you.
" Real friends are physically visible and available for you when you call and people you only have contact online are really just acquaintances.
If you meet someone on the internet and have social contact with that person in the real world they can become real friends.
The use of the internet and social networking sites should be used as tools to find traditional friendships and not replace traditional friendships with virtual friendships.
Building trust and intimacy over the internet is very difficult and is more suitable for traditional friendships.
When you face to face with a person you can read their body language and look into their eyes to get a better idea of what type of person they are.
Over the internet people can portray themselves to be something that they aren't and it is hard to trust someone if all that you know about them was told to you over the net.
Gender differences in communication are more obvious in person rather than online.
When communicating over the internet you can tell that gendered differences exist but in person you get additional methods of recognizing the differences such as Kinesics, Proxemics, Paralinguistics, and Haptics.
These nonverbal communication categories give you the ability to recognize gendered differences in communication which are nonexistent when chatting with someone online.