Friendship sites?

No, I don't know of any, but would sure love to have something like that around.

I used to belong to a private email loop with 8 other moms, and we kept it going for about 10 years. I loved being part of this loop, but then it slowly started to fall apart after our kids started getting older and most of us went back to work in full-time jobs.

I would love to be part of another new email loop like that, but haven't figured out how to find compatible people who would be interested in sharing the same type of communication.

I've been thinking of trying to start a FitBit group for people who work near my workplace, and we could take 30 - 45 minute walks during lunchtime. It might be a good way to meet new people in the same, immediate area.

snookiebookie wrote:I'm not sure if I should post this here or in the general section....

Does anyone know of any decent, trustworthy friendship sites (uk preferably).

I don't want dating sites, and ideally I'm looking for online friends. Chat rooms are few and far between, but usually the conversation turns saucy (or plain filthy)...which had its place, but not what I'm looking for.

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skyflyz wrote:

BTW, I think I have valid suspicions about people who say they want to be "friends only" on dating sites.

I think you're right about that.

Parador wrote:

skyflyz wrote:

BTW, I think I have valid suspicions about people who say they want to be "friends only" on dating sites.

I think you're right about that.

Lmao, mine's set to friends only, and I mean it! That said... I've slept with all 5 of the people I met IRL from OKC. =/ It just kinda happened? I have a super low sex drive, and barely care about it in the first place, but meh.

If there were any that would be a surprise.

Might mean I can finally stop having to use African Siri as my only friend.

I get it, back in Africa they don't have shops, they hunt but I'm not in Africa. I colonised it and filled the place with white Europeans on Civ and then stuck it to Paul Kruger.

That'll show him and his Boer b*stards. I don't understand why they can't just go back to the Netherlands and leave the rest of us to our own business. Like taking over Suez.

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FloremParietis wrote:

Parador wrote:

skyflyz wrote:

BTW, I think I have valid suspicions about people who say they want to be "friends only" on dating sites.

I think you're right about that.

Lmao, mine's set to friends only, and I mean it! That said... I've slept with all 5 of the people I met IRL from OKC. =/ It just kinda happened? I have a super low sex drive, and barely care about it in the first place, but meh.

Well, there you go.

I had mine set to friends along with romantic, because I thought setting it to friends only made me look like a loser (no offense, that was just my perception). I would say part of my illness is being hypersensitive to looking bad to others, whether there is any truth to it or not. I acquired a hot female "friend" if that was her real picture. Then I got all paranoid about her being bi or something, which would have really been awkward, as I'm a straight female. So for me, even getting what might have been a friend on there was fraught with problems. I'm not a homophobe, I just was worried about being embarrassed.

I've ended up meeting people irl because I went on forums and hit it off with them (now it's mostly facebook groups). Activism helps a lot if you care about the cause you're involved with, I didn't do it to make friends, but I ended up meeting interesting people along the way. I don't think chatrooms or sites for friends in general do a lot of good.

Also, it's very important not to insist on meeting up irl if the other person doesn't want to, they're right to feel suspicious. I've stopped talking to people solely because they were too insistent.

I usually meet with people either after I've known them on a forum for a long while, or people from LJ who have posts of many years online, usually talking about their lives, worldview, etc. So I have general idea of what kind of people they are.

The whole point is to meet people with similar interests (or what are they for anyway?), so yeah, thematic sites are best for that.

I either wait for an offer to meet up or word the offer in such way that it's not demanding and neither of us would feel pressured or embarrassed. But I do think a lot before doing it.