Don't you think that one can make better friends through a Question-Answer website like Fluther rather than Facebook?

Facebook is not anonymous and therefore superficial by default. People will say whatever the hell they want in an anonymous-ish forum.

Facebook is not really a place to make friends to maintain contact with already existing friends. I don’t accept friend requests from people who are not personal friends or family.

Flutter is a good place to make friends overtime. But bigger Q&A websites it can be difficult. It depends on the community.

You can have better and smarter conversations, but that does not translate into friendship.

And as @ARE_you_kidding_me wrote, Fluther is anonymous -no one really knows who I am. Being anonymous is not helpful to deep freindship.

So @Khajuria9 I disagree with your premise.

Facebook is much bigger and more diverse than Fluther. By “diverse” I mean “more mean people”. Fluther has less people and we are not as mean as the other sites on the internet. Now you can see the difference. It’s not about what you post, answers or pictures.

Go to Yahoo!Answer for a while and you’ll see what I mean.

By the way I think the chatroom is a much better place if your interest is to get to know people.

It depends on how you use the fora.

On Q&A forums, if you use them honestly you can develop relationships with people over time. I’ve made many good, lasting friendships through Q&A.

On Facebook, if one uses the Facebook Groups thing, the same thing can happen. I’ve also made friends I’d never have met otherwise through Facebook Groups. I’ve also made friends by interacting with friends of my real-life acquaintances who I’d never otherwise have met.

I’ve made friendships here. I maintain them on Facebook.

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I’ve made some friendships here and we’re friends on FB too (the Jellies that I’m friendly with who are also on FB). Fluther is a place where I can be totally honest about some topics that may be really personal, may be embarrassing to discuss with people I know or may be about the people I know. An example is discussing work relationships or relationships with friends and family.

Fluther is also a place where we sometimes discuss mundane stuff like what we eat or our personal habits. FB is not for that, usually. If I have a dilemma, Fluther is a place I can get objective responses from.

FB is where I maintain friendships with people, share photos, hear about friends’ milestones, events, silly quotes, and am in groups of various types (crafts, cats, groups for people who live where I live or have kids in the local school system). Just like @NerdyKeith, I never accept friend requests from people unless they’re either people I actually know, friends of friends or a rare few who I know from groups.

I think one can make better friends by meeting and getting to know others in person.

I agree with pachy that that is the best way. Second, this site. I am now Facebook friends with many people I have met on here. It is a different dimension to knowing them.

I’ve made good, close friendships here over the years and some of the people I’ve met in person. FB is mainly people I’ve known in real life and also people from this and other fora; I wouldn’t be friends with them on FB if I weren’t friends with them first.

I agree with your premise.

I don’t think it really works that way, “making friends” wise. I chose my friends on Facebook because I already knew them. Some of them are from Fluther, yes, but the dynamics are very different.

The only people on my FB account are already friends and in 8 years there I have not made one new friend. Here on the other hand you all are strangers at first so the potential to make new friends is infinitely greater. But I am a conservative so I do not hold out much hope of a friendship ever happening! ;)

I dropped FB years ago and my circle of “friends” were all real life friends and acquaintances.
I think here the atmosphere is different and the climate is more conducive to developing fondness and friendship in an online community. FB is mostly about peoples braggadocio and a forum for stuffing their agendas down others throats.

@Coloma: We experience Facebook very differently. My friends on Facebook are people that I actually like, and I enjoy interacting with them, discussing differing points of view, seeing their family pictures and vicariously enjoying their life events.

@canidmajor It started off like that for me too, but I found the daily stuff tedious and dull and the endless friend requests from friends of friends of friends and that damn farm game that everyone was in to and sending requests to join. I mainly opened the acct. to share travel pics with others far away but the rest I just found boring. I don’t need to know every cute thing your grand child did today or a blow by blow account of your kitchen remodel.haha

Oh, I’ve caught me lots of friends on facebook that I didn’t have before!

I guess my friends are just more interesting than yours, @Coloma, my feed doesn’t seem to be filled with that type of stuff.

@Coloma “I don’t need to know every cute thing your grand child did today” WHAT ARE YOU SAYING??!!!???!!! >_<

@canidmajor You’re right, after my facebook experience I actually dumped 2 friends that I had known for quite awhile. haha
@Dutchess_III Well, within reason you know. Not 15 posts a day. :-)

Alright. I’ll keep it down to 14. Sigh.

Both make fascinating reading- here and facebook-especially if you have insights and backgrounds and lots of cool things some make available. Pictures are also fun to put with names also. It’s informational and educational!
For some, it’s more fun than Xmas! You can get to know people and their lives.
Thumbs up for both- and all the other doors that open to curious users.