[General] We’ve known each other for only a few days

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Hi.

I met a woman online and chatted with her for a few days. She didn’t know too much about me and told she said “You’re a good friend”. I then said “We’ve known each other for only a few days”. Is this sentence natural and does makes sense here? I want to tell her that we’ve known each other for a few days and you shouldn’t make a quick judgment that I’m a good friend.
 
Hi.

I met a woman online and chatted with her for a few days. She didn’t know too much about me [STRIKE]and told[/STRIKE] when she said “You’re a good friend”. I then said “We’ve known each other for only a few days”. Is this sentence natural and does it make sense here? I wanted to tell her that we’ve known each other for a few days, and [STRIKE]you[/STRIKE] she shouldn’t [STRIKE]make a quick judgment[/STRIKE] quickly decide that I’m a good friend.
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I'm not sure your friendship with this woman is going to go much further if that's your reaction to what was actually quite a nice compliment! It sounds rather brusque to me. A somewhat politer response would be something like "I know we've only been chatting for a few days but I feel comfortable talking to you too".

I would say that if you met online and have been chatting only online, you don't exactly "know" each other at all.

Your response is grammatically correct - I'm simply saying that I don't really think you should have used it.
 
A somewhat politer response would be something like "I know we've only been chatting for a few days but I feel comfortable talking to you too".

A very good answer with politeness and sincerity. Thank you so much and I've learned a lot from you, EMS.
 
We've only known each other for a few days would work better than the original for me.
 
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