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Internet Friendships 101

Everything you need to know about having an online friendship!

Colleen Garrison

Oct 04, 2016

Dean College

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Today I would like to talk about a little something called internet friends.

For those of you know are reading this and personally know me, this might be a little interesting to you.

An internet friend is exactly what it sounds like...a friend that you meet on the internet.

I first want to say that in order to make an internet friend, it must be done safely. I make my friends on twitter, and when I first start talking to someone I like to trade Instagram and Snapchat usernames. This allows me to look and see that they are a real person. I get to see that they are not a catfish and I get to see their face. I also look them up on FaceBook and scroll through their pictures on twitter to see their selfies and make sure they are who they claim to be. I have never run into an incident where I suspected that someone I was talking to was not who they say they were. I do not go onto random chat websites and begin talking to the first person I come in contact with. I also don't give out any personal information. For example, my friends know what state I live in, but they do not have my address or even know the town I live in.

I am really close with all of my internet friends and I think we have a really special bond. I think this is because it's not like we get to see each other in person like we do with our real life friends. We also share things in common, for example, I made all of my friends by finding people who like the same singers that I do.

I hope that by reading this article, you don't think that I abandon my real life friends for my online ones. I still talk to, text, and spend time with my real life friends!

I think the idea of internet friends is really cool because I have friends that live all over the United States of America, and I even have one friend who lives in Canada. I have friends that live as close to me as 1 hour away and as far from me as 42 hours (yes I looked it up. Oregon is 2,894 miles from New York!).

I think that as long as you don't ditch your real life friends and as long as you make online friends safely, having internet friends can be really awesome.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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