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Eden's avatar

Big ➕ to all of this! I kind of like that you can skip some of the small talk with internet friends because they already know some of the basics from seeing your IG/reading your Substack/etc. You can just go straight to showing them pictures of your cats and grabbing food somewhere you've both been wanting to try.

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Kathleen's avatar

Oh hello ily !!!!! This is fantastic

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Sofia Badalamenti's avatar

I love this <3

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Julia Harrison's avatar

so real

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Bella Darden's avatar

Love love love this! I made half of my very close friends on the internet from my tumblr days. They came to my wedding and have been part of every single milestone in my life for the last decade. I’ve never had a deeper friend connection than the connections I’ve made online!!!

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Kaitlyn Lavery's avatar

Madeline I’ll legit cry omfg. I love this.

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Kate Rodgers's avatar

Love love love this and seeing our sundae moment as a surprise appearance ✨ I totally feel the same and will be sending this to all my NYC internet-met friends. So well written and spot on!

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Joe Hovde's avatar

this has been my same experience - it's made new york city feel much more like New York City

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Stephanie Stahl's avatar

Great story!

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Lindsay Paulen's avatar

I LOVE THIS AND YOU AND OUR FRIENDSHIP 😭♥️

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Caroline Beuley's avatar

Love this!! I just joined substack a couple months ago, but I'm feeling very hopeful about making some real life friends through it!

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hannah schifman's avatar

all of my food friends started as Internet friends!

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Olivia Weiss's avatar

Yeah <3

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Haylee Thomas's avatar

this piece was amazing i’ve met almost all my friends post grad through social media!

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maja roglić's avatar

100% agree idk what id do without my internet friends

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