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How to Make Internet Friends

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By Linda McCloud
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You can establish internet friendships with people from various backgrounds from anywhere in the world. These can be real relationships. You can share your problems, your successes and your everyday stuff. But first you need to know how to make and where to make internet friends.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • A computer
  • An email address

    How to Make Internet Friends

  1. Step 1

    Get an email address. This is essential in internet friendships. You may want to have a single address just for your private use and another for business related things.

  2. Step 2

    Begin joining social clubs. There are a variety of these ranging from small ones to the big name ones we all know such as: Myspace, Facebook or Tribe. To find a club you might like, just type in the words social networking clubs into your search browser and check out the hits you get.

  3. Step 3

    Join message boards. There are tons of message boards across the net. To find one, all you have to do is type one of your hobbies (stamp collecting, fitness, hiking, cats, dogs, etc), a magazine you like (yes some of them have their own boards) or a favorite television show (yeah, they have them, too). Just think about some of your interests type them in and add the words message board and see what appears in your search bar.

  4. Step 4

    Once you find a find a social club you like, build a profile and begin searching for people to chat with online. Once you find a message board you like, post a comment and wait until people start answering in return.

Tips & Warnings
  • Be consistent: answer your emails as well as any postings to your messages.
  • Chatting and emailing to your new friends and become very addicting.

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on 3/4/2009 Great article. Thanks for sharing!

yuenflai said

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on 1/27/2009 good info. If you want to make friends with China people, head to http://www.ecpod.com/#elce2EB38

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on 10/20/2008 Good tips. I joined a stepparenting forum and even traveled to Memphis to meet some of the other ladies. Pretty neat!

Cateeto said

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on 10/11/2008 Nice article!

vikki9 said

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on 10/10/2008 Good article about making friends on the internet. Thank you.

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