>>Ok, we are in an online forum. We don't know each other. A few do because they've met in person, but mostly we are strangers sharing stuff we have time to write without any risk of sharing our actual personalities. Would I consider anyone here friends. No, but I can say that I'm friendly with some here. I can also say I'm not so friendly with some here. I would even like to meet some here, but probably won't. Nadya, this is not the real world. We share a slice of who we are with others here. Is it a great online community? Absolutely, but it is not a replacement for the community you have offline. If you let an illusion, your word, of an online friendship affect your mental state, then there was already problems with your mental state beforehand. You may not Twit, and you may not like being Twitted, but put it in just a shade of perspective and realize that this is just an illusion of relationships. Go offline from the community for six months and see who emails or calls you. Those
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>> be considered more than an illusion of friendship, but other than that? I don't think so.
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>BTW, I met some people personally. Two people I met in Boston's VFP User Group I even consider my friends.
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>I also met Tamar, Andy & Marcia once :)
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>And recently I also met few people I knew online from UT/MSDN and one of them even reminded me of trying to help him recently with the problem (forgot the problem right now, though).

That's great! Then if they Twit you, then by all means, take offense. I'm not saying that there are not circumstances where you would feel offended, but 99% of the time it means nothing. Or shouldn't anyway.