{"id":5208,"date":"2015-07-31T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foreveryoursbetty.com\/devsite\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:23:46","slug":"making-and-meeting-internet-bffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foreveryoursbetty.com\/devsite\/2015\/07\/making-and-meeting-internet-bffs\/","title":{"rendered":"When Betty met Pip – Meeting your Instagram Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet is a wonderful thing. It\u2019s weird (and a bit sad) to say that I literally\u00a0don\u2019t know where I\u2019d be or what I\u2019d be doing without it. Hell, I don\u2019t even know who I\u2019d be hanging out with! After all, I met my first serious boyfriend on Myspace, my business partner on Twitter and all but a few months ago, I met my Orange haired soul sister on Instagram<\/a>. Stranger danger? Don\u2019t think so. Now we have reached peak internet, the saying \u2018a stranger is just a friend you have never met\u2019 has never been more true, and long may it continue!<\/h2>\n

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Back in the dial up years, we thought it was mainly creepy middle aged men that lurked around yahoo chatrooms waiting to prey on innocent. Parents everywhere were petrified about what lay underneath the world wide web and the dangers that would come when girls and guys everywhere first met their \u2018friend from the internet\u2019. Along with high speed broadband, a lot of things have changed since then, including the amazing discovery that there are people, actual nice people on the internet too, and they want to be your friend.<\/p>\n

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I follow 758 (at the time of typing) people on instagram and I pretty much class all of them as friends, whether I have even met them or they know me or not. After all, I know what they had for dinner, who their friends are, where they\u2019re going on holiday and\u00a0received\u00a0all the fashion and beauty advice since we first followed. When someone new starts to follow me and I see them on my feed I always end up visiting their page at some point to see if we are a \u2018match\u2019 I guess you might say. I\u2019ve met a few of my \u2018internet friends\u2019 in real life now, and it\u2019s incredible when the connection is as strong as the 4G that connected us in the first place. \u00a0As soon as I clicked on @PipJolley\u2019s <\/a>profile, I almost did a double take at a picture of her with some cat eye glasses. With her enviable vintage collection, stunning jewellery<\/a> (her own label no less) and love for everything bright and kitschy, it was clear from the get-go that we should be friends. We don\u2019t just have instagram to thank, it was all about the colour orange and all it\u2019s glorious shades.<\/p>\n

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After first following, it wasn\u2019t long till we met. I am in London quite often for work and after a nip around Topshop and a tour around some press events we found out that we pretty much lived the same life, right down to our limited edition Laura Ashley Raleigh Capris bikes. Since then, our long distance friendship has blossomed into something so special. We\u2019ve stayed at each others houses, exchanged life stories and been an ear when we need it most. We\u2019ve even gone as far to coordinate outfits when we hang out together!\u00a0Twinning is most definitely winning\u00a0when it comes to BiP (yea we\u2019ve went that far\u2026).<\/p>\n

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Meeting friends from the internet is beginning to feel all too normal, maybe that\u2019s because it\u2019s how things are happening now, but I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way! Have you met any of your internet friends in real life? How was your experience?<\/p>\n

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The internet is a wonderful thing. It\u2019s weird (and a bit sad) to say that I literally\u00a0don\u2019t know where I\u2019d be or what I\u2019d be doing without it. Hell, I don\u2019t even know who I\u2019d be hanging out with! After all, I met my first serious boyfriend on Myspace, my<\/p>\n

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