Someone online being nice to you for two weeks doesn’t make them a friend. Trust at the speed of real life.

Two weeks of somebody being warm to you online is two weeks of messages, which is not much to go on. Intensity builds fast there because it costs nothing to produce, and the feeling of knowing a person outruns the evidence by a long way. Life at normal speed is slower for a reason, since it lets you see how somebody behaves when they are tired, wrong or not performing. That is where the information lives.

Let time pass before you hand over anything that matters. Watch for consistency across weeks rather than intensity across days. Anybody worth knowing will still be there at that pace.