Having Friends on the Internet

January 15th, 2024 (about 1 year ago) • 2 minutes

The Last Supper between 'friends'

Lately, I had been exploring making friends with random stranger on the street Internet. I had some success with it, but I have to say it's not easy.

Why I started? After graduating from school, most of my days are spent working in the office. I don't have much time to meet new people outside of work...maybe Socratica could help (B and I are working on starting a Malaysian node). There are of course my colleagues, but I don't want to only talk about work.

How? I started scrolling on Twitter a lot and noticed there's actually a lot of gold here. Whenever I see someone cool, I will drop a follow and a DM asking something that we could both relate like

• "Hey, I saw you're also into XX, I'm also into XX! How did you get started?"
• "What's the most challenging thing you are doing now?"
• "What are you thinking about?"
• "What have you been reading lately?"

I try to be active and tweet daily so that people can see what I'm up to. If I were to build credibility, I need to have some good metrics to show, and to do that I need to be active.

Results? I managed to interact with some cool people and learn about what they are doing. I also got some good advice from them.

This year, I'm trying to reach 1000 followers and along the way, make some life long friends too.

I'm on Twitter at @_weichunnn, let's be friends!