1 People have always needed friendship. Humans are very sociable creatures, so they need to interact with other people Even if people have not changed much over the years,the way to make and enjoy friends has changed. These days, we can become friends with people we have never met by using the Internet. In fact, online friends have several advantages over face-to-face friends. You can communicate with online friends in new and different ways, you can share your feelings more deeply and honestly and you can meet compatible friends that you would never have had the chance to know in the past.
1人们一直需要友谊。人类是社会性生物，因此他们需要与其他人互动。即使这些年来人们并没有太大的改变，交往和享受朋友的方式也发生了变化。如今，我们可以通过使用互联网与从未见过的人们成为朋友。事实上，在线朋友比面对面的朋友有几个优势。你可以通过崭新新而不同的方式与在线朋友交流，可以更深入和诚实地分享自己的感受，并且可以结识过去从未有机会认识的协同的朋友。
2 The Internet offers special methods of communication. Traditionally,people talked with just one person face to face or on the phone, or to groups of people at parties or at school. On the other hand, only the Internet makes it possible to communicate with a large variety of different people sitting in different rooms all over the world. One example of this is the growing popularity of massive multiplayer online role-playing games, commonly called MMORPGs. In these online games, each player chooses a character and interacts with other players' characters. There can be 10 other players, or 50 or 100 or 1,000. Players can join and leave the game whenever they want to, and the next time they join the game, it will have changed depending on what other players have done in that time. With traditional face-to-face friends this would never be possible. You couldn't have players in China, Australia, Germany, Canada, and other countries all playing the same game at the same time and talking to each other.
2互联网提供了特殊的交流方式。以往，人们只与一个人面对面或通过电话交谈，或者与聚会或学校中的一群人交谈。另一方面，只有通过互联网才有可能与坐在世界各地不同房间的各种各样的人进行通信。一个例子是大型多人在线角色扮演游戏（通常称为MMORPG）的日益流行。在这些在线游戏中，每个玩家选择一个角色并与其他玩家的角色进行配合。可以有10个其他玩家，或者50、100或1,000。玩家可以随时加入和退出游戏，而下次他们加入游戏时，它会根据当时其他玩家的所作所为而改变。与传统的面对面的朋友相比，这将永远不可能实现。你不可能在中国，澳大利亚，德国，加拿大和其他国家/地区拥有同时玩同一游戏并互相交谈的玩家。
3 The feelings you have communicating online are special, too. When am talking in person with a friend, I am more hesitant and shy. I keep some of my ideas hidden. In contrast, when I am writing emails or IMing(instant messaging), I am more honest and open. Online communication feels safer and more confidential to me, and I don't fear people judging and criticizing me. I express my opinions more directly, and I share thoughts that I would never say out loud. I can't explain why this happens, but my friends tell me they feel the same way. know when I receive emails and IMs, even from people I have never seen, they share more personal information than my face-to-face friends do. This kind of open honest expression is a relief to me.
3您在线交流的感觉也很特别。与朋友面对面交谈时我更加犹豫和害羞。我隐藏了一些想法。相反，当我写电子邮件或IMing（即时消息）时，我会更加诚实和开放。在线交流对我来说更安全自信，不惧怕人们对我的批评和批评。我更直接地表达自己的观点，并且分享一些我永远不会大声说出的想法。我无法解释为什么会这样，但是我的朋友告诉我他们也有同样的感觉。知道我何时收到电子邮件和即时消息，即使是从未见过的人，他们分享的个人信息比我面对面的朋友多。这种坦诚的表达使我感到宽慰。
4 The most important advantage of online friends is the possibility of finding friends without any geographical restriction. No matter what country someone lives in, he or she can become a close friend. Because you are communicating more honestly and openly, you can make friends more quickly and more easily, too. You can then decide to meet in person if you want to. In fact, I met my girlfriend online using MSN Messenger I talked to her for many hours, and we shared some photos, so I got to know her very well. Then we met in person, and we have been dating ever since. If you can only meet friends in person, you can only meet people who live near you or go to school or work with you. Maybe you will like some of those people, but maybe you won't. If you don't like the people you see every day, you will have no friends. With the Internet, on the other hand, you can easily find friends who share your interests and opinions.
4在线朋友的最重要优势是可以不受地理限制地找到朋友。无论某人居住在哪个国家，他或她都可以成为密友。因为您正在更诚实，更开放地进行交流，所以您也可以更快，更轻松地结交朋友。然后，您可以根据需要决定亲自见面。实际上，我就是使用MSN Messenger在网上认识我的女朋友的，我与她交谈了几个小时，还分享了一些照片，因此我对她非常了解。然后我们见了面，从那以后我们一直约会。如果你只能与朋友见面，则只能与住在你附近，上学或与你一起工作的人见面。也许你会喜欢其中一些人，但也许你不会。如果你不喜欢每天遇到的人，那么你将没有朋友。而有了互联网，你可以轻易地寻找到和你有相同兴趣的想法的朋友。
5 Both your face-to-face and your online friends are important.Unlike online friends, face-to-face friends can participate in sports with you or spend time with you even when you are not talking or communicating. Therefore, I am not suggesting that people should not have any face-to-face friends. However, if you want to try communicating in an exciting new way, if you want to share your feelings completely and honestly, or if you are looking to a compatible friend or partner, try looking online. When you turn on the computer, you are just a click away from meeting a whole new crowd of friends from all around the world.
5面对面的朋友和在线朋友都很重要。与在线朋友不同的是，面对面的朋友可以与您一起参加体育运动或与您共度时光，即使您不在谈话或交流中。因此我是不建议人们不应该有任何面对面的朋友。但是，如果您想尝试以一种激动人心的新方式进行交流，或者想要完整而真诚地分享自己的感受，或者您正在寻找一个兼容的朋友或伙伴，可以尝试在线寻找。当您打开计算机电源时，只需单击一下，即可与来自世界各地的一大群新朋友见面。
