My Experience at Book Net Fest: A Journey of Discovery and Friendship

As I stepped into the world of BookTube, I was blown away by the sense of community that existed within this vast online network. The BookNetFest experience was like nothing I had ever imagined – a gathering of book lovers who came together to share their passion for reading, discussing books, and connecting with fellow enthusiasts. For someone who had always felt like an outsider in real life, finding my tribe among BookTubers has been a game-changer.

I must admit that I was a bit nervous about attending BookNetFest, not knowing what to expect from the event or how I would fit in. But as soon as I arrived, I felt a sense of belonging wash over me. The people I met were warm and welcoming, eager to strike up conversations about books, authors, and life in general. It was like we had known each other for years, not just minutes – the ease with which we connected was truly magical.

One of the most striking aspects of BookNetFest was the realization that I had been missing out on so much by only interacting with people through comments or social media. Seeing these individuals in person, hearing their voices, and reading their body language (yes, even though I'm watching from behind my camera!) made me understand just how much we were all connected. We shared laughs, debates, and insights – our conversations flowed effortlessly, like old friends catching up on each other's lives.

As I looked around at the people I had been chatting with online for months or even years, I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude. These individuals had become my closest friends, people I could trust with my thoughts, feelings, and insecurities. We bonded over our shared love of books, but also over life's more mundane struggles – finding joy in the everyday moments that make us human.

I was amazed by how much BookNetFest reminded me of the importance of community online. Yes, we have our disagreements and disagreements can be fierce, but at the end of the day, we're all just trying to connect with each other on a deeper level. In an era where social media often makes us feel isolated and alone, it's refreshing to see so many people come together, sharing their passions and support for one another.

My personal experience with online friendships has been nothing short of remarkable. When I first started BookTube, I had no idea that I would form such strong bonds with these people. We met in the comments section of my videos, exchanging words of encouragement and debate about books. Gradually, our conversations evolved from casual to meaningful, as we delved deeper into each other's lives. And when I finally decided to join the BookTubers community on social media platforms like Twitter and Tumblr, it was like a whole new world opened up.

It's funny how some people might think that online friendships are shallow or superficial – but nothing could be further from the truth. We form genuine connections with these individuals, people who understand us in ways that few others do. We laugh together, cry together, and celebrate each other's successes – just like any real-life friendship would.

The key to forming lasting online friendships is simple: be authentic, be genuine, and be willing to take a chance on someone new. I encourage everyone watching this video to reach out to fellow book lovers in the comments section below or to connect with them through BookTube videos. It doesn't have to be fancy – just a heartfelt comment or message saying hello can go a long way.

In fact, even people who seem intimidating or unfamiliar at first can become lifelong friends once you take the leap and engage with them online. Like, I'm talking about George R.R. Martin here (who still uses LiveJournal!) – it's amazing to think that we all started out as strangers, connected only through our shared love of books. And yet, over time, we've formed bonds so strong that they transcend borders, languages, and even genres.

The beauty of online friendships lies in their flexibility – you can participate in buddy reads, join readathons, or engage in discussions on books from the comfort of your own home (or anywhere else you happen to be). It's liberating to feel like you're part of a community that accepts you for who you are, without the need for physical proximity.

But even with all these benefits, I must admit that there have been some rocky moments in my journey as an online friend. Like when someone says something hurtful or mean-spirited – it's not easy to shake off those feelings and remember why we're here together in the first place. Yet, time and again, BookTube has shown me that our community is one of kindness, compassion, and understanding.

As I reflect on my experience at BookNetFest, I realize just how much this little online world has impacted my life. It's not just a group of people who share an interest in books – it's a network of friends, mentors, and confidants who support me through thick and thin. And that's something truly special.

So if you're like me, wandering through the vast expanse of BookTube, feeling a little lost or uncertain about where to start, I urge you to take a chance on this community. You might just find your tribe – people who understand you in ways you never thought possible, and who will be there for you when you need them most.

In the end, it's not about finding new acquaintances; it's about nurturing the friendships we've already formed along the way. And as I look around at these incredible BookTubers, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude – we may be connected online, but our bond is just as strong and meaningful as any in-person friendship would be.

So let's raise a virtual cup (or a real one, if you're feeling fancy!) to the power of community, kindness, and connection. For in this vast online world, it's not about numbers or likes – it's about being seen, heard, and understood by others who truly get us.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's Sam and today I want to do a book chat on digital friendships this video is part of a paint promotion with Disney Hyperion fur clicked by Tamara Ireland stone this author also wrote every last word which is a favorite of mine I'm gonna review for that so link that on the screen this is a new middle grade story that follows Alli who's a girl that is really into coding and she just created this app called click that connects people that have similar interests and creates new friendships based on a scavenger hunt to find each other and make these new friends her app becomes the talk of the school but then she discovers a glitch in it that could expose everyone's secrets and so she has to kind of race against the clock potentially work with an arch enemy all before she has to present her app to the judges so clicked is all about digital friendships and making friends online through different apps and different platforms and that is something I wanted to talk about today because the whole thing with booktube is it has the unexpected side effect for me of creating a lot of awesome friendships and introducing me to a lot of awesome people that is something that I wasn't quite expecting when I got into booktube I definitely wanted to talk to other people about books but I didn't think I would make best friends from this real life friends like yeah sometimes people are like Oh online friends aren't real and blah blah blah and maybe back in the day you didn't know if your friends that were online were real like I remember the times of AOL chat rooms and aim' Instant Messenger and stuff and not really knowing the people that you're talking to are people that you think you're talking to like that kind of weird started the internet like scary you know don't meet people from online that still carried over into like a lot of our parents obviously thinking about like digital friendship so when I first started to meet people that I knew from booktube my parents I was an adult so my parents really couldn't say anything you know I started booktubing when I was like 23 24 I want to say so my parents I didn't live with them you know there's nothing they could say about that but they definitely were like wait how do you most people and I was like well we make videos so I can see their faces like I know they're real you know it's a little easier thing to make friends through like the video community and stuff and even now like it's just you have a better sense of the people that you're meeting and talking to our like real people even if it's through like Instagram or Twitter or whatever like people feel more real than they did back in like the beginning of the internet but it's definitely been an unexpected side effect so I talk about some of my friends that I've made obviously I can't mention like every friend that I've made here I've gone to a lot of bookish events so I've been able to connect with people on that way but even a lot of people that I just talked to via comments and stuff or people that I consider really good friends but I wouldn't be honest if I didn't start this video with Sarah Jane of the book life um I need to not be emotional about this video because I love my online friends so much and a lot of people I been through booktube are like I said some of my best friends like people I talked to everyday people I talked to more than I talk to my like best in real life friend that I've known for like ten years Amanda who I've had other videos without links um like on the screen or something but Sarah Jane and I talk every day unless we are going to like other events and stuff like she went to comic-con recently I had booked net fest so we didn't really talk during that but like we literally talked every day through voxer so box there is an app not sponsored and you hate for box there but box doesn't have a lot of online people use because it's an easy way to talk it's a texting and a voice chat app so you can hold on a little button it's kind of like a walkie talkie and record like one-way voice things people use it for group chats and people use them for just like talking like texting or whatever but Sarah Jane and I have our own chat that we talk in and it's like every day we like update each other on each other's lives and there's been so many times that we have like basically come to tears because we're like one day we're gonna meet it's gonna be great and just even recently and every time I think about meeting Sarah Jane in real life like I start tearing up it's amazing that I haven't right now I think I'm just keeping the emotions at bay like I have had visions of like running across an airport sort of like vlogging it because I don't let people like know about our friendship and like vlogging this experience because it's gonna go by like so fast and being able to like watch it back and just be like crying like those those videos you see if people that are like either reunion videos or like first meeting videos and they're like people are running like that is what is gonna happen with us like we talk every day I mean we've talked every day since we started reading The Grocer trilogy that is our friendship book that's what brought us together and we we talk about everything about everything like it's crazy and we've never met real-life we like I have never gotten a chance to hang out I cannot wait for the chance to actually like hang out in person but it doesn't even like it a lot of people are like Oh online friendships aren't is like valid or important because you have never made for the real life like ser James with my best friends like she knows a lot about me we have been through a lot together we both understand like illness related stuff she was there for me when I was sick and basically couldn't talk to anybody about it she's one of only people that knew like it's is so important that friendship is so important to me and something that again I would have never expected to come out of booktube like I got on here to just talk about books and now I'm talking to people about like real life stuff and stresses and like fitness stuff and any new goals that we have anything like bitching about like any anything like like the same way that you do with your real life friends and these are my real life friends then we have Kayla of book of doodles Kayla happens to live closeby to me geographically so that's been really excellent because again I didn't have a lot of friends out on the East Coast and moved out as my best friend but then like I have just moved places numerous times it's not like I have a ton of like in real life friends I do but they're all spread out throughout the country and just not people very close by to me but Kayla happens to be close by within like 2 hours of me so we get to see each other on a more regular basis which has been awesome so kayla is somebody that I've bonded over with like a game of Thrones and stuff again another person that I've travelled to events with have hung out with a different like bookish event I've hung out with just in general we have game nights Gerald and I have game nights board game nights and Kayla's come to those we've gone to lunch because she actually works in the town that I live in so I see her for that and it's just like yeah and we never would have known each other without booktube what I don't know what I would have done without her because when I was recently catching up my Game of Thrones I was sending her live text messages about everything that was going on and all caps basically and I needed her to like respond immediately and she happened to be her own at the exact time to always respond to what was happening because I was like I can't function without someone who knows what's going on then we have my partner in crime Adi for my name is marinas buddy but again I wouldn't have known the book to like and without people like other friends recommending her to me and then we finally met at y'all fest a couple of years ago and now the office is coming up in November and it's kind of like our friend groups like and you will hang out like chill event like we obviously all hang out throughout the year but I feel like y'all fest is where like we all come together the most because it's just like a nice fun event and like we happen to ask or I reach out to her that first y'all fest and I was like hey you in a room with us and she's like yeah I like that was it that was that she's a part of like all of our friend group and like it was instantly solidified into like one of us basically like just fits in personality wise so well and it's just so amazing she's so smart brilliant somebody that I can just bounce ideas off of somebody who inspires me to make better content and to grow and learn and is just like the perfect like yin to my yang I don't know if that means anything bad like New Age or anything I think it's positive yeah yeah but like we are opposites in some ways but really similar other ways and we're able to work together really well and we have like a really good collaborative energy and somebody that again I can talk to not get sick of not get annoyed with like the whole time planning book net fest we didn't fight we didn't fight I was never like oh like she's so annoying I never had an Asia with her and you know she said the same thing about me I'm not just like I was the one that was the bad one in the group or anything like that like we just get along so well and like it's very easy all of these online friendships are so easy like they're just people that I could just sit in a room with it be quiet it's not like anyone needs to talk or feel the silence or anything like that like it's just chill speaking of chilly then have MySpace squad girl so this is page from enchant ology Victoria for Victoria chas and Sanne from pink bones books we all played through the Mass Effect games together so some of us had played the games before some of us were new to it but we all played through the trilogy together and had live shows and stuff so I'll actually link the first one down below you can kind of follow all the way through but it was so much fun to like play a game with other people like we weren't playing live because Mass Effect isn't something where you're like playing together but we played through around the same times and then like discuss everything and it was so fun like so magical I want to play through other games again we were going to play through we're now played through Mass Effect Andromeda and then some of us haven't even finished it I did but some of them didn't so it's just like when you know their game to play through because it was like that was us our little space squad team and like I've met all of them now separately some of them together I met Victoria and Sanne like together but in Paige I just met at book net fest but I want all of us to be together at some event hopefully soon within like the next year so but they're another group of girls that is just awesome I can like tell them anything I can tell them about anything we've had a lot of rants about various things that are going wrong in the world recently and they're just a great couple girls and I love them and then we have like so many people that I'm in group chats with that I talked to our regular basis like there's an entire booktube SFF group chat that i'm involved in that has like a ton of people like Thomas from SFF 180 and Elizabeth from books and pieces and like all these people I'm there's like 28 people in that group chat I can't even keep up with it because there's so many people in it so all those people are awesome to talk to you I have another group chat with like various people like Conner from Connor O'Brien and lainey from gingerreadslainey who's from like the original Wolf Pack I just want to say that we joke a lot like Wolf Pack is used ironically it's not an actual clique guys like do you know how people are technically in wolf pack right now like 25 people that are like part of Wolf Pack like anyone that we talked to were like you're part of the wolf pack cuz it's ironic it's a joke but Lanie is one of my original people that I want to be EA with like years ago now like three years ago has it been three years since I first went to BJ yeah but lanius the one that that like basically every event that I go to we just always get to room together most of the time and like hang out and stuff so Laney is awesome and just so fun to hang out with Jessica she's such a good person Lanie you're good person and like Jordan from Jordan journals and Liz from Liz loves lit who is hopefully gonna be y'all physically you hang out with you again it's been so long and Mike some slice of Mike and Sylvia from wish fulfillment and like all of these people that I feel like I just got to hang out with a book net fest but like all of these people that I never would have met without booktube it blows my mind people that I genuinely get along with people that inspire me to be a better person to be a better content creator to learn more to be more critical as my reviewing to like broaden my horizons and not just read the same thing necessarily I mean not that I was never really doing that but like just introduced me to so many cool books and like I get to hang out and talk to them and share my life and like my what's going on in my everyday with them not just book related stuff plenty people that I talk to you in the comments whose names I'm gonna forget right now like their actual names or there's so many people like let's book about it and do potterhead and like I'm forgetting somebody evil but like everyone I've talked to in the comments and regular basis I can like see your icon and people I talked to on Twitter and stuff like it's it's magical it's magical this little community that we've managed to form on booktube and just all the friends or at least friendly and you can just go to different events and stuff but just know but like your people are there or just like go online and know that you have support there it's crazy it blows me away whenever I feel like down booktube is there yes so they're sometimes crappy things that happen the book community absolutely is sometimes it just it's too much and you have to take a break yeah but overall difficuity has been such a positive experience in my life and I have lifelong friendships from these friendships on booktube it's booktube gonna last forever probably not I mean I hope it lasts very long time but probably not and well I still talk to you people after book she was gone yes so if you feel like you haven't found your online community reach out comment and if you're on booktube or whatever comment on booktube videos and create those lasting friendships it takes time like I don't want you to think that all these things happen overnight it didn't you know I've gotten booktube for almost four years now so like these things don't happen overnight a lot of these friendships your format for many people multiple times or after talking multiple times and comments like again most of these people I talked to before I ever met them in real life so it was like just talking through comments having similar opinions on books or having disagreements about books or talking on Twitter like getting involved on Twitter and having those conversations are just getting know people that way like if you have a platform like that if you are on like books to Graham Twitter any of those tumblr tumblr is really good for like anonymous messaging but I encourage you to not just not on this message I encourage you to actually use your face because then people can form a bond with you there's plenty people that I know from tumblr that I just know their icon their name like those are people that I consider friends too and just like reach out it can be really scary but the thing about the internet it's a little bit easier than doing it in real life because a lot of us are really shocked in real life myself included so you can definitely form those friendships are you on a different like platform that you I don't know it's like it's not I was gonna say is like xanga and LiveJournal thing anymore I think LiveJournal is because I'm pretty sure George are Martin still uses it which is ridiculous but just get involved you only need to make your own content but just like write genuine comments more than just like great video or like you know you're so pretty I don't know I mean like write genuine comments oh really comments that everyone remembers and that you're like wow I know this person now so that is my biggest recommendation for having online friendships and people you know you just a matter of like who you're gonna click with now everyone you're gonna click with it wouldn't planning people that have comments on their videos and nothing really comes a bit or anything like that but there's plenty people that you will click with you will find your little community your little tribe your little your people and be able to kind of foster those friendships and really grow together maybe do buddy reads together participate readathons together and stuff like that all these things can be had online you don't need to meet people in person for these friendships to be real like I said the first person I mentioned is irritating the book life I have never met in person I'm going to but I haven't yet and she is all my best best friends so online French was our ballad online friendships are so important and I encourage you to reach out to people online if you haven't already so comments below let me know about your online friendships thank you all for watching I'll see you guys soonhey guys it's Sam and today I want to do a book chat on digital friendships this video is part of a paint promotion with Disney Hyperion fur clicked by Tamara Ireland stone this author also wrote every last word which is a favorite of mine I'm gonna review for that so link that on the screen this is a new middle grade story that follows Alli who's a girl that is really into coding and she just created this app called click that connects people that have similar interests and creates new friendships based on a scavenger hunt to find each other and make these new friends her app becomes the talk of the school but then she discovers a glitch in it that could expose everyone's secrets and so she has to kind of race against the clock potentially work with an arch enemy all before she has to present her app to the judges so clicked is all about digital friendships and making friends online through different apps and different platforms and that is something I wanted to talk about today because the whole thing with booktube is it has the unexpected side effect for me of creating a lot of awesome friendships and introducing me to a lot of awesome people that is something that I wasn't quite expecting when I got into booktube I definitely wanted to talk to other people about books but I didn't think I would make best friends from this real life friends like yeah sometimes people are like Oh online friends aren't real and blah blah blah and maybe back in the day you didn't know if your friends that were online were real like I remember the times of AOL chat rooms and aim' Instant Messenger and stuff and not really knowing the people that you're talking to are people that you think you're talking to like that kind of weird started the internet like scary you know don't meet people from online that still carried over into like a lot of our parents obviously thinking about like digital friendship so when I first started to meet people that I knew from booktube my parents I was an adult so my parents really couldn't say anything you know I started booktubing when I was like 23 24 I want to say so my parents I didn't live with them you know there's nothing they could say about that but they definitely were like wait how do you most people and I was like well we make videos so I can see their faces like I know they're real you know it's a little easier thing to make friends through like the video community and stuff and even now like it's just you have a better sense of the people that you're meeting and talking to our like real people even if it's through like Instagram or Twitter or whatever like people feel more real than they did back in like the beginning of the internet but it's definitely been an unexpected side effect so I talk about some of my friends that I've made obviously I can't mention like every friend that I've made here I've gone to a lot of bookish events so I've been able to connect with people on that way but even a lot of people that I just talked to via comments and stuff or people that I consider really good friends but I wouldn't be honest if I didn't start this video with Sarah Jane of the book life um I need to not be emotional about this video because I love my online friends so much and a lot of people I been through booktube are like I said some of my best friends like people I talked to everyday people I talked to more than I talk to my like best in real life friend that I've known for like ten years Amanda who I've had other videos without links um like on the screen or something but Sarah Jane and I talk every day unless we are going to like other events and stuff like she went to comic-con recently I had booked net fest so we didn't really talk during that but like we literally talked every day through voxer so box there is an app not sponsored and you hate for box there but box doesn't have a lot of online people use because it's an easy way to talk it's a texting and a voice chat app so you can hold on a little button it's kind of like a walkie talkie and record like one-way voice things people use it for group chats and people use them for just like talking like texting or whatever but Sarah Jane and I have our own chat that we talk in and it's like every day we like update each other on each other's lives and there's been so many times that we have like basically come to tears because we're like one day we're gonna meet it's gonna be great and just even recently and every time I think about meeting Sarah Jane in real life like I start tearing up it's amazing that I haven't right now I think I'm just keeping the emotions at bay like I have had visions of like running across an airport sort of like vlogging it because I don't let people like know about our friendship and like vlogging this experience because it's gonna go by like so fast and being able to like watch it back and just be like crying like those those videos you see if people that are like either reunion videos or like first meeting videos and they're like people are running like that is what is gonna happen with us like we talk every day I mean we've talked every day since we started reading The Grocer trilogy that is our friendship book that's what brought us together and we we talk about everything about everything like it's crazy and we've never met real-life we like I have never gotten a chance to hang out I cannot wait for the chance to actually like hang out in person but it doesn't even like it a lot of people are like Oh online friendships aren't is like valid or important because you have never made for the real life like ser James with my best friends like she knows a lot about me we have been through a lot together we both understand like illness related stuff she was there for me when I was sick and basically couldn't talk to anybody about it she's one of only people that knew like it's is so important that friendship is so important to me and something that again I would have never expected to come out of booktube like I got on here to just talk about books and now I'm talking to people about like real life stuff and stresses and like fitness stuff and any new goals that we have anything like bitching about like any anything like like the same way that you do with your real life friends and these are my real life friends then we have Kayla of book of doodles Kayla happens to live closeby to me geographically so that's been really excellent because again I didn't have a lot of friends out on the East Coast and moved out as my best friend but then like I have just moved places numerous times it's not like I have a ton of like in real life friends I do but they're all spread out throughout the country and just not people very close by to me but Kayla happens to be close by within like 2 hours of me so we get to see each other on a more regular basis which has been awesome so kayla is somebody that I've bonded over with like a game of Thrones and stuff again another person that I've travelled to events with have hung out with a different like bookish event I've hung out with just in general we have game nights Gerald and I have game nights board game nights and Kayla's come to those we've gone to lunch because she actually works in the town that I live in so I see her for that and it's just like yeah and we never would have known each other without booktube what I don't know what I would have done without her because when I was recently catching up my Game of Thrones I was sending her live text messages about everything that was going on and all caps basically and I needed her to like respond immediately and she happened to be her own at the exact time to always respond to what was happening because I was like I can't function without someone who knows what's going on then we have my partner in crime Adi for my name is marinas buddy but again I wouldn't have known the book to like and without people like other friends recommending her to me and then we finally met at y'all fest a couple of years ago and now the office is coming up in November and it's kind of like our friend groups like and you will hang out like chill event like we obviously all hang out throughout the year but I feel like y'all fest is where like we all come together the most because it's just like a nice fun event and like we happen to ask or I reach out to her that first y'all fest and I was like hey you in a room with us and she's like yeah I like that was it that was that she's a part of like all of our friend group and like it was instantly solidified into like one of us basically like just fits in personality wise so well and it's just so amazing she's so smart brilliant somebody that I can just bounce ideas off of somebody who inspires me to make better content and to grow and learn and is just like the perfect like yin to my yang I don't know if that means anything bad like New Age or anything I think it's positive yeah yeah but like we are opposites in some ways but really similar other ways and we're able to work together really well and we have like a really good collaborative energy and somebody that again I can talk to not get sick of not get annoyed with like the whole time planning book net fest we didn't fight we didn't fight I was never like oh like she's so annoying I never had an Asia with her and you know she said the same thing about me I'm not just like I was the one that was the bad one in the group or anything like that like we just get along so well and like it's very easy all of these online friendships are so easy like they're just people that I could just sit in a room with it be quiet it's not like anyone needs to talk or feel the silence or anything like that like it's just chill speaking of chilly then have MySpace squad girl so this is page from enchant ology Victoria for Victoria chas and Sanne from pink bones books we all played through the Mass Effect games together so some of us had played the games before some of us were new to it but we all played through the trilogy together and had live shows and stuff so I'll actually link the first one down below you can kind of follow all the way through but it was so much fun to like play a game with other people like we weren't playing live because Mass Effect isn't something where you're like playing together but we played through around the same times and then like discuss everything and it was so fun like so magical I want to play through other games again we were going to play through we're now played through Mass Effect Andromeda and then some of us haven't even finished it I did but some of them didn't so it's just like when you know their game to play through because it was like that was us our little space squad team and like I've met all of them now separately some of them together I met Victoria and Sanne like together but in Paige I just met at book net fest but I want all of us to be together at some event hopefully soon within like the next year so but they're another group of girls that is just awesome I can like tell them anything I can tell them about anything we've had a lot of rants about various things that are going wrong in the world recently and they're just a great couple girls and I love them and then we have like so many people that I'm in group chats with that I talked to our regular basis like there's an entire booktube SFF group chat that i'm involved in that has like a ton of people like Thomas from SFF 180 and Elizabeth from books and pieces and like all these people I'm there's like 28 people in that group chat I can't even keep up with it because there's so many people in it so all those people are awesome to talk to you I have another group chat with like various people like Conner from Connor O'Brien and lainey from gingerreadslainey who's from like the original Wolf Pack I just want to say that we joke a lot like Wolf Pack is used ironically it's not an actual clique guys like do you know how people are technically in wolf pack right now like 25 people that are like part of Wolf Pack like anyone that we talked to were like you're part of the wolf pack cuz it's ironic it's a joke but Lanie is one of my original people that I want to be EA with like years ago now like three years ago has it been three years since I first went to BJ yeah but lanius the one that that like basically every event that I go to we just always get to room together most of the time and like hang out and stuff so Laney is awesome and just so fun to hang out with Jessica she's such a good person Lanie you're good person and like Jordan from Jordan journals and Liz from Liz loves lit who is hopefully gonna be y'all physically you hang out with you again it's been so long and Mike some slice of Mike and Sylvia from wish fulfillment and like all of these people that I feel like I just got to hang out with a book net fest but like all of these people that I never would have met without booktube it blows my mind people that I genuinely get along with people that inspire me to be a better person to be a better content creator to learn more to be more critical as my reviewing to like broaden my horizons and not just read the same thing necessarily I mean not that I was never really doing that but like just introduced me to so many cool books and like I get to hang out and talk to them and share my life and like my what's going on in my everyday with them not just book related stuff plenty people that I talk to you in the comments whose names I'm gonna forget right now like their actual names or there's so many people like let's book about it and do potterhead and like I'm forgetting somebody evil but like everyone I've talked to in the comments and regular basis I can like see your icon and people I talked to on Twitter and stuff like it's it's magical it's magical this little community that we've managed to form on booktube and just all the friends or at least friendly and you can just go to different events and stuff but just know but like your people are there or just like go online and know that you have support there it's crazy it blows me away whenever I feel like down booktube is there yes so they're sometimes crappy things that happen the book community absolutely is sometimes it just it's too much and you have to take a break yeah but overall difficuity has been such a positive experience in my life and I have lifelong friendships from these friendships on booktube it's booktube gonna last forever probably not I mean I hope it lasts very long time but probably not and well I still talk to you people after book she was gone yes so if you feel like you haven't found your online community reach out comment and if you're on booktube or whatever comment on booktube videos and create those lasting friendships it takes time like I don't want you to think that all these things happen overnight it didn't you know I've gotten booktube for almost four years now so like these things don't happen overnight a lot of these friendships your format for many people multiple times or after talking multiple times and comments like again most of these people I talked to before I ever met them in real life so it was like just talking through comments having similar opinions on books or having disagreements about books or talking on Twitter like getting involved on Twitter and having those conversations are just getting know people that way like if you have a platform like that if you are on like books to Graham Twitter any of those tumblr tumblr is really good for like anonymous messaging but I encourage you to not just not on this message I encourage you to actually use your face because then people can form a bond with you there's plenty people that I know from tumblr that I just know their icon their name like those are people that I consider friends too and just like reach out it can be really scary but the thing about the internet it's a little bit easier than doing it in real life because a lot of us are really shocked in real life myself included so you can definitely form those friendships are you on a different like platform that you I don't know it's like it's not I was gonna say is like xanga and LiveJournal thing anymore I think LiveJournal is because I'm pretty sure George are Martin still uses it which is ridiculous but just get involved you only need to make your own content but just like write genuine comments more than just like great video or like you know you're so pretty I don't know I mean like write genuine comments oh really comments that everyone remembers and that you're like wow I know this person now so that is my biggest recommendation for having online friendships and people you know you just a matter of like who you're gonna click with now everyone you're gonna click with it wouldn't planning people that have comments on their videos and nothing really comes a bit or anything like that but there's plenty people that you will click with you will find your little community your little tribe your little your people and be able to kind of foster those friendships and really grow together maybe do buddy reads together participate readathons together and stuff like that all these things can be had online you don't need to meet people in person for these friendships to be real like I said the first person I mentioned is irritating the book life I have never met in person I'm going to but I haven't yet and she is all my best best friends so online French was our ballad online friendships are so important and I encourage you to reach out to people online if you haven't already so comments below let me know about your online friendships thank you all for watching I'll see you guys soon\n"