How do you and _____ maintain your friendship? If you are no longer in contact with _____, how did you used to maintain your friendship with _____?
Participants answered this question with the name of their closest online friend(s) in mind.
To view the spreadsheet of all the responses from the +Friend survey, click the button below.
By messaging each other every day
We chat via Facebook Messenger and sometimes we’ll video call on Skype
Talking on messenger and playing steam games together
message regularly
Video games and phone calls
No longer in contact (we've been in contact from 2002 to 2015). We used to discuss various things on a forum and online chat. It eventually led to regular "real-life" meetings over the years, with several different online friends.
We text nearly every day and keep each up to date with our lives and video game progress. And share music, sometimes.
Discord
Messaging throughout the day whenever we're online
Texting, talking on discord calls, playing games together, sending each other confectionary in the mail
We play games together on his days off
Discord
We speak on discord
We used to play strategy games online.
Discord
Via texting and we sometimes meet in real life even though most of them live a few hours away
chatting in various online mediums (google talk, discord, etc) and email
It varies. If we're playing the same game or hanging out in the same online community, we may hang out all day, every day for a few weeks. Otherwise we'll chat on Discord, and depending on how our lives are going, we may at times not talk much for weeks or months. I have much more frequent contact with many casual friends, but I consider this one to be my closest friend specifically because we both know we can pick up where we left off anytime.
Snapchat, Kik, text - we used to FaceTime several times a day
Played together in-game, chatted with each other on Discord, sent each other gifts either virtually or through Amazon/Etsy