> I don't think my parents take my time spent on RinkChat very seriously.
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> Many times they have made comments about my "being addicted" to RinkChat.
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> I just wish I could make them understand that the people I meet here are really my friends.
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> Who said you can't make a friend over the internet?
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> Give me one good reason an internet friend is any less valid than a friend made in real life.
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> Sun"annoyed"dragyn.

I don't have any real-life friends; only internet ones. I live out in the middle of nowhere and am homeschooled, so that lets out most social interaction :) I've always been kind of a loner anyway, so I really don't mind not having "real" friends.
My mom is a self-taught website "designer", so she understands that I have friends on the net. My best e-pal (you know who you are ;) lives in a state my family really wants to visit anyway, so I'm hoping we can actually meet someday.

La"Rambled 'nuff on that"Zorra