Friendship has always been a part of everyone’s life. This has even become central to our lives. Everywhere we go, we can find friendship. There are lots of people around us who can be our friends. Even people who are away from us can be our friends. Do you know how? We can make friends all over the world through the use of internet. Yes, you got that right. But how can we make friends through the internet?

Here are some tips:

• Do not wait for a friend to appear. Do something like signing up on a website where you can make friends or enter decent chatrooms where you can make friends.

• Look for friendly and popular sites where you can meet people.

• Never be shy. Put this on your mind because if you enter a room like any chatroom, there is no place for shyness. Just be yourself.

• Talk of stuffs that interest both you and your friend.

• Ask open questions for they definitely encourage conversations.

• Once you have started a good conversation and made friends in the internet, never forget to save the email add or the nick being used by your friend. This will give you a chance to have constant communication.

• If you are already sure of the friendship that has been established, it is then time to go out and meet your friend in person. It is nice to meet your friend in person so that you can establish an everlasting friendship because through this, you can see the real attitude of your online friend outside the internet.

There are many online sites that offer you free access to get to know many people all around the world. These sites give us the benefit to know not just many people but also their culture and their place. Here are some friendly sites that you can visit for you to make online friends.

• Messenger.yahoo.com – this is the very common site used by almost every person in the world. This site can allow you two choices: download your own Yahoo Messenger to be installed in your computer or use the web messenger for you to chat online. Whichever choice you choose, it offers easy access to communicate with people. How do we use this? First, we register an account. After registering an account, we enter the chat room where we prefer to join and there you go, you can already meet start chatting and meet friends.
• MSN – this is another site similar to yahoo. Many people are also using this program. The ones who use this program or site are usually coming from United States of America or European Countries.
  
• Camfrog.com – this is another chat site that also allows you to meet lots of people. For me, this is the most interesting chat site because it has its ways for you to comeback to the site more often. It has rankings from being a room’s visitor to friend to operator to owner. The room visitor’s names are colored black, friends are colored blue, operators are green and owners are colored red. The red owners have many benefits to get compared to the other colors. This is also a site that can make other people enjoy because the chatters can have fun even by just listening to the music. Yes each room can have music. The ones that are allowed to give the tunes are those who have blue, green or red colors of name.
• Skype.com – is a site that allows conventional chatting. You can talk to many people at a time. These are usually used by businessmen. But you can only use this when you have the list of names that your friends use. This has no chartroom.
• Friendster.com – is a site that allows you to meet people and get to know them by their profiles, blogs and other activities. These are common to people from teenagers and above. Many friendship has been keep in touch because of this site
• Facebook.com – is similar to friendster but it allows friends to chat while they are online with their account. It also offers many applications that members enjoy.

There are many other networking sites that you can use in making friends. Other people use eyeballchat.com and mirc. For social networking, some people use tagged.com, myspace, multiply, myyearbook, flixter and many other sites. Those who love photos share their photos to friends with the common use of photobucket. You can also make friends on sites where there are single or couples dating but you must be careful guys. The person you meet online are still strangers not unless you have built a big relationship that consist of trust and honesty.