Reine Online-Freundschaften haben eine schützende Funktion gezeigt, insbesondere für gefährdete Jugendliche mit Selbstmordgedanken. Soziales Kapital in Online-Kontexten hatte einen erheblichen Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden, wobei ein höheres soziales Online-Kapital mit positiven Ergebnissen verbunden war, insbesondere in Spielumgebungen.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40947896/
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Online friendships are just friendships. One of my closest friends ever was from Halo 3 back in the days.
But it probably better be an actual friendship, human connection. Not just online interactions. I think that might be getting rarer nowadays do to the style of „message boards“ like reddit and modern online games
I’ve never once related to the concept that online relationships aren’t real. I’ve had plenty of physical and online, without feeling differently at all in the long term. I’ve been just as upset, excited, close or distant in my online friendships, and now, I’m at a point in my life where pretty much all my relationships are online, and I’m totally happy.
If we wanna meet up physically, great! If it stays online, great!
This idea that „it’s not real“ is absurd to me.