Well we mostly all speak English. I’m a Scotsman, my wife is from Georgia, and we live in England. So you can be quite comfortable us Brits. A little tale I have mentioned before. I have travelled quite a bit and I use my British passport. So I went to Taiwan and they gave me document to show that I was working on business and who I was. No, not British. It had to be English according to them !!
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They probably live in or around big cities RN. Here in South Yorkshire we have very social communities and are always on hand to help neighbours out. You can’t walk through the village without someone stopping you for a nag. The church still pulls people together here with regular events where you can catch up on all the gossip and enjoy a pie and pea supper or just tea and cake. Mrs Fox has just spent the weekend manning (or womaning) a stall for the tombola at the annual Festival of Art where artists from the area can exhibit their work in the church.
I find. people who spend lots of time on the internet tend not to be very social… 
And yet you posted this just a few days ago.
https://forum.over50schat.com/t/thought-of-the-day/107134/6016?u=rightnow
Sadly I am losing my real World pals at a fast rate. As most are my age or a year or two younger it’s not surprising, but, it makes me think.
Not got many on line, relations yes & a couple of pen pals on FB.
I do interact here but can’t say any are actually friends.
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For me, my list of actual friends is diminishing as time marches on. Those of my youth now only number 5 and at my age of 86, time hammers home how vulnerable I am. On-line I cant say that I have any actual friends, only names of posters in the various forums I visit; some come across as friendly while a few. others act like complete a-holes, so I tend to ignore their additions
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Me it’s the real world , as since moving to an island city im not online enuff to make to make virtual bosom buddies .
But always feel welcome here 
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I’m on nodding terms with a dozen people in our street, but feeling the need to small talk is just not the London way. A nod is sufficient 90% of the time.
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i like to talk to the animals, a nod and a wink you knoiw ??
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A Nod’s As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse.
I don’t regard anyone on line as a friend really BUT I do get a tad concerned if I don’t see a regular name for a week or two 
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And I stand by that post RN.
Mrs Fox is big in the community, I accompany her when I can, but much prefer to be out on my own on some God forsaken moor.
I am not anti social when the need arises, but if it wasn’t for Mrs Fox my social circles would be very limited.
However, friends and neighbours always know where to come when they need help.
I was an only child and although had some very good friends (one particular one who I still keep in touch even though he lives 300 miles away) I spent lots of time on my own. At school I was the smallest boy in the class and was the last to be picked (along with the fat kid) for football or other team sport.
It was at 27 years old I found my love of running and spent the best of 45 years running long and ultra long distances alone. Very few runners could train their mind to train by themselves and I only ran with a club for a short time.
I did team up with two other runners and had lots of adventures together, although training was usually solo. They were probably my best ever friends and still are, except Alan moved away after his marriage broke down and he developed dementia, but the third was Jim and we meet regularly and chew over the good times and the many races we ran together.
Despite my tendency to be alone, I will always stop and talk to anyone who knows me and wants to bend my ear…I remain optimistic and outgoing when approached, if I can’t avoid it… 
And to think your life could have been so much different if only you knew where to purchase longer shorts. 
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Those were the days my friend, when there was just one “Fat Kid”
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There’re at least three kinds of friends. Online, those might include members who one regularly communicates with while being on the same wavelength. On some forums you can even list likeable members as your friends for others to see. In the real world the common idea of a friend over here is that of a close friend, one who’d rush to help if need be, who you could talk about anything with. Based on this distinction it may be difficult to answer the OP’s question since real-life friends and online friends are different kettles of fish.
To me, it’s not the number of friends I have in both worlds but the level and frequency of communication that matters and here the pendulum swings in the direction of the virtual world.
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i didn’t go to fat class
How about the lovely people on here?
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Aye, och the noo !!!
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Hi all I’m new here… I don’t even know where to type other than reply to a post hahaha. Hope all is well.
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Welcome to the forum Sugari.
What’s your dog’s name?
Hi and welcome Sigari73!! I’m just a grumpy old Scotsman that has travelled a bit including South Africa a few times.