what i really don’t get about older generations shitting on online friendships is that they seem to forget that before the internet, people used to have pen pals. they put up ads in a newspaper seeking people who shared their interests they could exchange letters with. and often they wrote to each other for years, even decades. maybe they never met but they still considered each other friends, someone they could talk to, someone they could trust.

today’s online friendships are practically the same, except we don’t have to wait for weeks/months for a reply anymore.