Whether through real-life meetups, or Skype, Facetime, Google Hangouts.
Have you been face to face with people you met online?
I can tell you I've met my online friends a couple recently, and wow it's such an interesting experience! It's so cool to use Google Hangouts (webchat) to meet people from around the world. It might be intimidating at first, but you basically already know them!
So yeah. Who has experience with this?