Internet friendship

[Inaayah]

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu...

I am having this doubt which always keeps me wondering if, what I am doing is haram! 

There's an anonymous app where we get to share our secrets and our thoughts without being known! We get to make new friends as well who are all strangers. We can remain anonymous if we want.

So...Sometimes I chat with guys as well, not a sexual chat but a FRIENDLY one. I don't share my pic not even by personal information. It's an informal chat with a stranger! Can anyone please tell me if this is haram or not?

It would be great if anyone could help me! 

Jazakallahu khairan

Was salam!

[Sumerian]

13 minutes ago, Inaayah said:

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu...

I am having this doubt which always keeps me wondering if, what I am doing is haram! 

There's an anonymous app where we get to share our secrets and our thoughts without being known! We get to make new friends as well who are all strangers. We can remain anonymous if we want.

So...Sometimes I chat with guys as well, not a sexual chat but a FRIENDLY one. I don't share my pic not even by personal information. It's an informal chat with a stranger! Can anyone please tell me if this is haram or not?

It would be great if anyone could help me! 

Jazakallahu khairan

Was salam!

It is haram to befriend the opposite gender, joke and share banter with the opposite gender, laugh with the opposite gender, according to Sayyed Al-Sistani 

[Inaayah]

1 minute ago, E.L King said:

It is haram to befriend the opposite gender, joke and share banter with the opposite gender, laugh with the opposite gender, according to Sayyed Al-Sistani 

Can you please share the reference?

I need to help my friend as well and for that I need some reference as proof. When I went through ayatollah sistani (ra)'s site I didn't get the clear answer. All I saw there was one shouldn't talk to opposite gender if he is not sure that he can control his nafs from indulging into haram stuffs.

Btw...jazakallahu khair for the answer! 

[Sumerian]

Just now, Inaayah said:

Can you please share the reference?

I need to help my friend as well and for that I need some reference as proof. When I went through ayatollah sistani (ra)'s site I didn't get the clear answer. All I saw there was one shouldn't talk to opposite gender if he is not sure that he can control his nafs from indulging into haram stuffs.

Btw...jazakallahu khair for the answer! 

 

[Inaayah]

5 minutes ago, E.L King said:

 

Jazakallahu khair... I'll keep this in mind and will try my best to evade talking to opposite gender

[Abu Hadi]

First, if you installed the app on your phone, you're not anonymous. 

I mean you are to the regular users of the app, but the creators of the app have lots of information about you. 

When you install the app, they know the signature of your device(each device connected to a network has a unique signiture), they know where you are(because you use an ip address to connect to the network, also mobile devices can share geo data), and maybe other information like what other apps you downloaded and who your contacts are. 

If they wanted to use this information at some point, they could. 

As I have advised others, please do not share you secrets online. 

[notme]

Being friends with the opposite gender is haram if there is fear of falling into sin. You can be friendly and personable if you treat gender on internet as a non-issue. Just be careful that you don't accidentally lead anyone on. 

But as mentioned already, nothing online is ever really private.