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When I started tweeting, I had 192 followers. Every tweet was mortifying. One of the first online friends I made was someone who loved books. We were fast friends until they abruptly decided to stop talking to me and I was left wondering whether the friendship was “real.” I was 23 then. I no longer wonder about these things. I have learned since then that people do things that are inexplicable to us because of their attachment styles, personal paranoias and relationship histories. It’s best to not read into it too much. People can leave whenever they want to. People can, and do stay. I continued meeting people on Twitter. I met A online March 2020 because I was bored and wanted someone to distract me. Once we started messaging we never stopped. I started talking to P without knowing anything about her and now we have matching tattoos. I DM’d L even though I didn’t really “get” his tweets. Many of my closest friends are now people I collected online like Pokemon. There were further casu

making friends online part 1 of a series on friendship Ava Feb 05, 2024 189 2 40 Share Egon Schiele, Landscape at Krumau , 1915 When I started tweeting, I had 192 followers. Every tweet was mortifying. One of the first online friends I made was someone who loved books. We were fast friends until they abruptly decided to stop talking to me and I was left wondering whether the friendship was “real.” I was 23 then. I no longer wonder about these things. I have learned since then that people do things that are inexplicable to us because of their attachment styles, personal paranoias and relationsh

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