Online Friends.

Hello World! 

Today I am going to talk about online friends and why I want to but can't make them. 

Well, I know some of my friends who are friends with people online and talk to people online. And that always kind of seemed really cool to me, for some reason. I was always like "whoa, imagine talking to someone you've never seen before in a different country!"

Some of you that may follow my fan account on Instagram, @samilyxteamkurt, may know that aside from the normal meme pages, celebrities, and a few of my friends, I follow loads of random people from the #Samily and #TeamKurt. Some of them make good edits, some of them are highly popular members, and some of them I just came upon and was like "why not follow?" 

So recently two of these lovely people have DMed me and been friendly and nice. And obviously, this is the internet, so you don't begin a conversation by fangirling, you ask things like "what's your name?" "what country are you from?" and "how old are you?". 

But all the while I was using the internet as a kid, my parents were all cyber safety and netiquettes around me - "don't give out your password!" "don't put any details online!" "don't tell ANYONE your age!" "don't tell anyone where you live!" "don't talk to random people on the internet!" so on and so forth. I was told that the implications of doing these things would be fatal, and hence my tiny 9-year-old self got scared and was like, "yes mommy, I'm only using the Internet to play Barbie games!"
To this day, my parents are even more paranoid about that stuff with all the news going around. They don't even let me post pictures of my face on Instagram. 

I was being nice, so I very kindly and subtly gave the information to these people who seem genuinely nice and sweet. And of course I didn't want to be like "oh my parents are paranoid about this stuff and somehow so am I so can we not talk KBYEEE" because, who am I kidding, that's just awkward. 

But at the same time, I also find it kind of cool to have online friends and talk to people online. I feel like that is partly what the internet was made for - making the world smaller, helping just any two random people bond over their fandoms or any other thing that they have in common. That's exactly what I thought of while making this blog. I was like, "hey, I have a forum to express myself, and there may just be people who find that they are just like me and talk to me and maybe I'll make friends!" (not that any of that has happened yet, but I still dream on.) 

It is amazing talking to these new people and I would like to continue. However, due to my mom's guidance about being on the internet, I have been taught that they may be hackers and that I may be in danger. But I will continue to make friends because I'm a "dangerous woman" ;) *loses all readers in one post*.

Thank you for reading! 

Little Miss Imperfect

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