What was your most memorable experience in an online community? (ie Twitter, Facebook, anything else!)

I made some great friends, and some great enemies on wis.dm Don’t bother visiting there, it’s closing down. The lack of moderation allowed for some nasty, horrible racist fights and personal attacks. I hope fluther never becomes like that, and continues to moderate. People are like animals when there are no moderators. Free speech is lovely, but even in the real world you can’ walk around and yell the n word or the c word at strangers in the street. You can’t flip the bird at a policeman, and scream and shout obscenities in every cafe you walk into. It is just wrong, besides being illegal.

Fluther rocks!

I met two guys on myspace. They ended up turning into my best friends. The one I’ve known for four years and he has been with me every step of my life as well as I have been with him. I couldn’t be happy meeting him through it cause without him I would have been stuck in some bad spots in life.

The other boy I met is also one of my dearest friends. I’ve known him for two years now but he lives a state away in Philly. He makes an effort to come and visit me once a month or the other way around. We have such a close bond, it’s like he is my brother. I love them both dearly, so thanks myspace haha.

I was a part of this forum for about 3 years or so. It’s dead now so I won’t name it, but it was a very tight knit community. I started going there when I was 13 or 14 and I would say that many of the friends I made there made me who I am today. My parents are not very involved in my life, so I’ve always felt that some of my friends from that forum had a bigger hand in raising me than my parents ever did. And that may sound sad to some, but I’m glad because I like who I am right now and I shudder to think what I would be like if I was influenced mostly by my parents.

Anyway, I also learned how close you can really get with online friends. I received birthday cards and gifts in the mail, I sent things as well, and I was invited and went to a wedding several states away, etc. It was a great experience and I’m still friends with most of them, although some have just abruptly disappeared.

I’m on a private mother’s forum. I’ve been talking to these ladies since at least December 2006. I’ve met 4 of them so far(i’m not sure how many there are, some are newer than others, and i don’t know them as well). We do gift exchanges, send cards. They all got me a lovely wedding gift, and helped me out when my husband lost his job. They are very close friends of mine, and have helped me through rough times as a mother, and a wife.

Here Dr. Shilolo got Judochop to the ER before his inflamed appendix burst.

The Milo series of questions got me from a cat ignoramus to Feline 202.

A few years back, I met an online “friend” and she took me with her on a roadtrip to meet up with other online “friends”. It was a fantastic experience and I feel towards several of those people that they aren’t acquaintances to me, they have become Friends.