When I read your blogs, I feel as if we’ve talked in person. And it’s doubly nice to IM or e-mail regularly with a number of you. So, when I tell Marv about my day, I often find myself saying, “I was talking with my online friend today….” or “My online friend said….” Why do I differentiate between online friends and offline friends?

There are so many different ways to categorize friends:

  • Online or Offline
  • Married or Single
  • Parent or Child-Free
  • Classmate or Random
  • Meat-Eating or Vegetarian
  • Glasses-Wearing, Contacts-Wearing, or Free-From-Wearing
  • Type A or B
  • Dyed or Au Naturel Hair
  • And the classifications can go on and on and on….

In the end, you’re all my friends. It doesn’t matter if I’ve never met you face-to-face or if we’ve had completely different life experiences. Each of you contribute something to my life that no one else can. You are a friend indeed.