1. Expand interpersonal relationships: By making friends online, you can meet more people and expand your social circle. This helps to broaden one's horizons, increase one's life experience and broaden one's mind.

2. Find like-minded friends: On the Internet, we can choose to communicate with people with the same hobbies, interests or opinions and find like-minded friends. This will not only bring us happiness and satisfaction, but also help us get more resources and opportunities.

3. Improve communication skills: Online chatting can help us improve our communication skills, learn how to express ourselves, listen to others, understand each other, and gradually improve our communication skills in interaction.

4. Enhance social confidence: By making friends online, you can deal with strangers in a safer and more relaxed environment, thus gradually overcoming social phobia and increasing social confidence and courage.

5. Learn new knowledge and skills: You can learn new knowledge and skills by chatting with people with different backgrounds and occupations or participating in online activities, and master some novel and useful information.

In a word, making friends through the Internet can bring many benefits to personal development. However, we need to pay attention to security issues and think carefully when choosing friends to avoid being cheated or hurt by bad people.