Yeah...
In your opinion are the people on PWI or other BBS's,people you consider friends?
I consider some here to be friends, some not so much.
My Dad said when I was a kid, that you can never have too many friends. And that nobody needs enemies. I tend to give friendship freely, but don't try to push it on people.
I even know some people that don't think much of me, that I consider friends, I don't let other people control how I feel, even about them.
I will say that I only really know one facet of many people here, but I consider some to be friends.
Generally I'm dog loyal to my friends. I knew most of my friends better in the first few encounters than I'll ever know many aquaintences, even if I like them. If I like a person, I generally love them, if I love a person, I generally adore them. My friendship is easy to get, but not cheap. I've been blessed in this way: I have better friends than I ever could have deserved. Therefore to me, they are a gift of Grace. Unearned, undeserved, yet there by no accident. Those are my friends.
I think the BBS's are a useful tool, and I greatly enjoy getting to know folks here. I feel friendly towards almost everybody here, and don't waste my hate on anybody here. When I travel, I call everybody I can, so I can meet them in person, to put a face, voice, and impression to the posts. That's just how I am with friends. (If you live near a place I've been recently, and didn't get a call, don't think I have bad feelings towards you. More likely, I just mismanaged my time to call, and didn't get it done!)
Man, I gotta go watch a hockey game or something, maybe clean my guns...How much more touchy-feelie can a post get?