How To Make Friends Online

The Internet. Admit it, the internet is a fantastic invention. Without the internet you would not be reading this. It's a great source for all kinds of information. Including friendship.

I have been online for about 8 years now. In those 8 years, I have met a huge variety of people. Some were very good and some were VERY bad.

You have to watch out for those bad ones. They can be rude, crude and socially unacceptable and for very good reasons. I have talked to many who turned out to be nothing but nasty old men. YUCK! Of course, if you want to talk to these types of people then have a blast because there are tons of them online.

I, on the other hand, wanted to talk to people more interesting and similar to myself. I started searching the internet for�topics that interested and pertained to my life as a wife and stay at home mother. Parenting, Family, Marriage, Womens Issues. There were so many places to visit online. It was had to choose which ones to visit first.

I finally found several places on the internet focused on the subjects that interested me. My very first place was an "Expecting Club" message board. This is a message board for women who are pregnant and are due to give birth in the same month. Our month was July 2000. Since I was pregnant with our second daughter at that time, this was the perfect place for me. I could talk to women going through many of the same things that I was going through. And boy did we talk about it all.

We all had a great time. We gave birth to our babies and then we became a "Playgroup". Through these past 7 years our group has changed sites several times for our message board. We have lost some members, gained some members, had some HUGE farguements and some small disagreements but the Playgroup is still together and going strong.

Some people broke off to create new message boards also. That gave me more message boards to visit and even more new people to meet. It's fun when a friend of a friend becomes a friend of your's. It's a big wide world out there full of potential friends.