Comments on: I Have A Best Friend in PlayStation Home

By: Jamesiow

Jamesiow — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:15:56 +0000

A very nice read Norse. I do like these articles that rekindle dormant thoughts that get forgotten along the way, that help us to remember things that are starring us right in the face on a regular basis. I do have meself a best friend on Home, always warms the heart to see this person trundle along into the Home world. But is this someone I would stand up and say ‘I am Spartacus!’ for? Well… hmm… maybe. -sips coffee and reads the fine print- At any rate, a best friend on my friends list this person is. Someone who, when the real world environment is starting to overwhelm, I can go to and forget the world for an hour or two (and even when it’s not.) From a chance meeting, to many conversations and emails since, it’s been a joy to share thoughts and nonsense, and look out for each other with this individual. I may never get to meet this fellow human face to face, but I’m thankful for the bods at Sony who thought this Home thingy would be a good idea, and giving myself and many others the chance to interact in this way. Thanks again Mr Norse!

By: riffraffse7en

riffraffse7en — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:36:06 +0000

Norse I kind of think that you have a narrow view of why some one would leave- if I were if I were offered a chance to sail around the world or even race for a living I doubt I would give dropping my ps3 a second thought- or if I got a chance to be acoorespondent writer- or if I was going to go to law school or med school or grad school… I would leave for financial reasons as well- if I was marrying an executive and needed to manage a household- it is very importan to remember hat PSH is not thereal world for most of us- I have met many people on PSH that I am very close to but most of them I can contact by other means besides PSH -- and I guess I have always sort have been abnormal because I met my best friend in real life at my job- she hated what she was doing and moved on -I was happy for her -- I stayed because I like what I do. But working together was not the deciding factor in our relationship- in the same way, though home facilitates my good friendships it is not the decideing factor in my maintaining my personal friendships. And because I have a social net work on the outside I dont think I need home exclusively for a social life. -- just a thought.

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:33:57 +0000

Great article Norse. I do have a best friend that I also love. She is a great person in real life as we communicate outside of Home. But she is a person that has made Home mean so much to me. We do things together and have so much fun. There are the down times when something goes wrong in real life for one of us and we remember that we are together outside of Home. It is fun to roam the new places with that person, and it gives some places real meaning. I have been alone here in Home, and it’s a fun place when you walk alone. When you get a friend though, or a love, it is 10 fold better. I do feel bad for those that are with out friends, and need them, I have bbeen in that time of a lonely walk.

By: minuett

minuett — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:11:37 +0000

Yes, & I thank gawd for that blessing daily.. sometimes more. I am still amazed I went thru my life/ soany yrs, thinking so-n-so was my bff.. & to get so hurt/betrayed.
To have found like minded, generous spirits, with such kind souls, & SO much in common with me has been.. well, frankly a godsend.
& I have PSNHome to partially, yet seriously Thank for that.
Kudos on the well written article.
~min

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:57:24 +0000

The answer to that question is yes for me. I have a couple of very good friends in Home and have actually been able to become a best friend with at least two of them, though they may not see me the same way, I don’t know. These are people I can talk to about the real world stuff I have going on and feel free to do so. We have had very good conversations about a lot of different things, the trivial to the important. I feel I can trust them, though we have never met and probably never will. In a way that gives me a freedom I don’t have in life with my real world friends, but I do have a couple of best friends in real life as well.
The difference is that my “virtual” friends understand Home and all of its complexities, and since it is also a big part of my life right now it helps to have that as well. My real life friends don’t get it at all.
Great read as always Norse.

By: Olivia_Allin

Olivia_Allin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:50:07 +0000

I too have a best friend on Home. And an overwhelming majority of my good friends are on Home and many of them are staff members of this magazine. I have grown less and less social in real life. But I become more and more social in Home. I have worked at TV stations that paid very low and didn’t treat their employees that well. But the employee stuck around because we were family, closer than friends. I have talked for many hours of my shrinks about my life on Home. And they tend to agree with me. The friendships I make on Home are just as real as the ones I would make in real life. The emotions, the interaction, the love and the experiences are just as real as anything I could experience in real life. The only real difference is the difference between 2-D and 3-D. I can not reach out and touch my best friend in a tangible way but I can on an emotional level and with love and with humor and even with drama.
when looking up the definition of friend or friendship, nowhere does it mention the environment you must be in to achieve that.

I have lost friends on Home. One by death, a few by disagreements or misunderstandings and some from growing apart. All of these affected me in my real life in a real way. I have a dear friend that is on hiatus from Home that I miss dearly. My best friends real-life commitments has kept her off home quite a bit and I miss her.

Some may argue that home is just a game or a gaming platform, some may say it’s a social network like Facebook or even Twitter. To me Home is aptly named.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:23:20 +0000

I don’t know. One I feel more comfortable with than anyone else. Others not friends but who I admire because of what they say or do, communication or music, even if I don’t know them well.

Growing up I had friends of which three I felt most comfortable with. Knew them for years after and though we hadn’t seen each other in years we could talk about something as if we had just seen each other the day before. But there were other friends too through the years when I got older. Sometimes friendships end. One in the Army I haven’t heard from since then but we had some things in common.

On the internet there were friends who either went their own way or died, kind of like real life.
But there was one who was one of the best friends I had ever had even though we never met. Music was part of the key, we were in tune as she might say. She died.

Sometimes I think on friendship never mind, that Eric Von Zipper was right when he sang I Am My Own Ideal. I might have said that jest to be funny but there be a bit in truth in it.

Ya’ made me think, Norse. There’s something to be said for that.

By: Dr_Do-Little

Dr_Do-Little — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:20:55 +0000

I’ll be lying if I say my BEST friend is on home. I met Martin in high school we were 16… 26 years ago.
But I do have some really close friends on home. When I think of leaving home, or whiping out my friend list because it start to feel like a burden. I look at those few names and think. I can’t do that.
I met some amazing persons on home. When they spend a few day on a disc game, I miss them. Yes friendship is the reason why I’m still logging on daily, even if feel more like being alone.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:50:54 +0000

Bingo! Nail-on-head. I have a best friend in Home yes. Like you said, not just a good friend, or a close one, but my best friend. Last time I had a ‘best friend’ I was a kid, I met him when we were 7 and eventually parted by life and its changing rivers we all must follow when we were 18-19. Eleven years might not seem much, but for our age it was nearly the whole of our lives that we’d shared.

Another 10 year’s passed before I would let anyone as close as that again.

But it happened, and in the strangest of places. A place without true existence, without boundary of ones true self. Yep, Home. S2 racer to be precise. I’m a pretty good judge of character, and I generally make my own decisions about things in my life, what I mean by that is I tend not to ask for much advice on things -- I see things clearly enough. But that’s my hallmark of a best friend; someone I value enough to actually listen to, and entrust with the problems of my life to want to seek their advice. It’s more than just that though, the guy I’m talking about is about the most amazing man I’ve met in my life. Where he’s come from, where lives, the stuff he has to deal with on a daily basis -- I cant have anything less than admiration for him. It’s maybe a reflection of the struggles I see that bonds it -- I’m not entirely sure. But I’ll say this; even though we’ve never “really” met in the real world, if it came down to it, I’d trust him with my life.

Yeah Norse, you got the bull’s eye. As long as he’s around, I won’t be leaving Home.