Talking about online friends, that includes our Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Hive friends... They are all friends we can't see except on photos or may have never met but we found ourselves in the same page online to connect.
About 10 years ago, I found out about an online world where I could find more friends than in my reality... My reality then was always staying or maybe hiding inside the house and afraid to mingle with the excuse of being careful.
Life wasn't so boring living indoors with my family but finding out the online world made life more interesting for me. The first world of online friends I engaged in was 2go, an app that was very popular back then where people chat to raise their levels... I think I was one of those who almost got addicted to it before Facebook came to my knowledge.
I finally got addicted to Facebook instead and I tell you, I connected to almost a thousand people because I found out a new skill in me... Fun to chat with, I just find a way to connect with people very well. I'm sure my business would have grown well if I had started one then π
I got a better phone to also be on WhatsApp and I found more chances to grow my online friends, and they keep growing. Some of my reality friends today are result of my online chats with them, and they are still my friends... Not so different from the online connection we had.
I thought I was already into the best online world until I found the blogging world of more friends. I tell you, there are way more better online friends here on Hive if you'd look very well. Facebook, WhatsApp and so many other chatting apps have become filled with fake lives and fake love.
I bet you'd hardly find that here, except I'm choosing to believe that myself. The people here are mostly real because they share their personal activities, and some even share their private lives here... Others connect to them and build stronger connections with them.
So I'll repeat here again, Online Friends are like stronger connections.
Stronger because building a reality friends isn't easy, we do know that... Lots of hurts, and lots of love of course. How much more building online friends, people you can't see to know their expressions when you share an experience with them.
I believe winning a friend online over is like winning two reality friends over, it's more difficult to get online friends but once you win them over... They stick really close.
Before now, I thought it was easier to get online friends though but have you thought of how your online friends really feel when you chat or engage with them? Are they for real? Do they feel the same as you?
Maybe it's same with our reality friends but we can see them so it's really different. So in essence, to build your online friends, you need to be sure to have plans in keeping them close like they are in your reality.
One good way I know of to build your online friends is Consistency
Imagine chatting with a Hiver who posted a really good post that you liked, you guys had some connection and you made so many comments under that post... But after that day, you both go your way to find another Hiver's awesome post to connect with, what do you think has happened to that first spiking connection? Gone!
Well I'm saying, when you feel a connection... Keep in touch again, and again, and again... Something good may out of it for both of you.
I've seen Hivers tagging Hivers for awesome opportunities even when they don't have tag anyone, it is as a result of some connections they've had and are still having.
The sentence "Out of sight, out of mind" also applies to making friends online, when you stop checking up on them through their posts, they forget about you slowly.
So keep up that stronger connection with your consistency, it works.
There are other little things you do to keep your online friends but I believe consistency covers it all. Just have fun and enjoy building that connection.
Do you have your stronger connections? Add to the number and stay consistent... Let's build more love around Hive.
This would have been an entry for a contest but I'm not sure if I followed the rules anymore so I'll just submit it as a normal post.
Thanks for reading!!!