I've met several people in person that I became acquainted with online first, and two or three of them are now my BEST friends. We get together as often as we can. Two of them live fairly close to me and the other lives in Las Vegas. We've been on vacations together, have flown to each other's houses to attend concerts, just to party and hang out. For some reason, these few friends I've made online, are closer to where I am in my life right now, than some people I've known all my life. It just seems like they "get" it more. I don't know why that is, but that's the way it's turned out. I hope to build other strong friendships like that and eventually meet in person. It's fun to meet people you've made a connection with online in RL, as long as they're not axe murderers! I think people who are like-minded and would develop friendships in person also do the same in an online environment, there's no real difference to me.....birds of a feather and all.