@torbjorn I agree with what you said. Friends do compliment and benefit from one another. Being a “virtual” friend doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re less than “real” friends. Writing online and sharing ones opinions makes me feel like we do know each other, maybe at a level that my friends from back home don’t understand. They don’t blog, so they don’t know the details about my life that I put up online.

Look forward to meeting up with you guys sometime.

- Jun

most importantly, I look forward to hopefully meeting you some day. i agree that although our relationship online is (almost) purely blog/info based - we could in fact be good friends in “real life” when it comes down to it. Friends are usually friends because they share something, or need things from eachother, making them mutually useful. We’re that - and you’re a pretty nice guy, too.

Meeting online people offline has been a great accomplishment for me thus far. The biggest reason I attend conferences is to make connections real. It’s also something I have tried to do while studying where people are traveling to. I saw Penelope was here in Orlando for a few hours, so I yelled over to have lunch. I knew many of my music industry personnel were going to be at Atlantis in Atlanta, so I knocked down doors to get on their panel.

Making these relationships real, are not only good for personal relations, but business relations. I can call upon my new friends for help online and off, with promotions and with questions and anything in between

Maybe one of these days, plane tickets will cheapen up and I’ll get back to Cali to have lunch with your crew. Till then, see you on GChat!

- Jun

Cheers,
Stephanie