Is online websites good for teenagers these days to make friends with?

Sometimes I wonder to myself, what are the good things about making friends online?!?!?!

Well, one of the good things about making friends online is that the feeling of living away from home, our online friends can be a good support system. They might help you get over the feeling of loneliness. Making friends online also can teach us a lesson or two. We will get the opportunity to interact with the person and may be getting to know many new things.

Firstly, the number of real-life friends is positively correlated with subjective well-being even after controlling for income, demographic variables and personality differences. Doubling the number of friends in real life has an equivalent effect on well-being as a 50% increase in income.
Secondly, the size of online networks is largely uncorrelated with subjective well-being.
Thirdly, we find that real-life friends are much more important for people who are single, divorced, separated or widowed than they are for people who are married or living with a partner.
There’s this question always on my mind which is “what are the challenges of making friends online in social websites.”
Well, being in the modern society, people have fully embraced the Internet and other mobile communication technologies such as cell phones for communicating with friends, making new friends, seeking information, and creating media products. Even though most uses of online technology have their advantages and excitement, there are increasing problems associated with adolescents using the Internet to send and post cruel or harmful messages and different form of communications such as images and videos to harass and bully people that we know in real life or even online.
 
So therefore, is it good to make friends online? Well, I believe that it is a good thing because of the exposure to people overseas and learning things we never know from the people we meet online however there are cons to making friends due to the motives and not meeting the person at all. I would continue to make friends online but I would just advise to be aware and not to give out personal details no matter what.
 

I started to get curious and wanted to find out the difference between online friends and real life friends. Therefore I discovered a few differences.