Quote Originally Posted by Ackwell
I started wondering if I have any real friends at all? Sharing my life in some internet forum.
To echo Robin, we are real too. Just because the method of communication is over new technology doesn't mean relationships developed thru it are any less legitimate. I have developed very close friends online. I see it as analogous to the days when all distance communication was done with pen and paper. Then as now, friendships grow, intellectuals debate, enemies scorn, lovers court, all regardless of the medium.

-ian