What is the best way to say "online now" in Japanese?


I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to say "my friends are online
now" or "I'm online right now".

So far, I have considered:

  * ネットでいます。
  * オンラインです。

For instance:

> 私は今ネットでいます。
>
> 友達はオンラインです。

However, I feel I'm missing something here. Is there any idiomatic expression
I'm not aware of, or I am just overthinking it?




オンラインです is perfectly correct and natural. On the other hand, ネットでいます is
ungrammatical. Remember that the particle you use with いる/ある is に, not で.
ネットにいます is correct, but this is much less idiomatic than オンラインです.

And note that:

  * 'Friend' in contexts related to SNS or gaming is typically translated as フレンド rather than 友達.
  * Please consider whether what you actually want is a UI indicator like "Friends: Online" or a _full_ sentence like "Your friends are online." If you want the former, "フレンド: オンライン" will suffice, and a full sentence containing です would be redundant.

