Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Some of my friends from the real world always question that I am meeting people that I know "from the Internet." I always tell them that so far, I haven't met any deranged cyclists.

Ah, mine ask that too! I actively participate on another fitness/food forum and I've really gotten to know a group of women really well from it. We always refer to ourselves as 'friends who live in our computers.' Even though we are scattered all over the place (most in US, but from Cali to New England, one is @ The Hague). Several of them have met (a few from NE went to Boston to watch one do the Boston Marathon this year). The cyclists are talking about meeting at some ride next year. I think it's really cool that people can form real friendships with people they would have otherwise never ever met.

And, my college roommate met her hubbie on the 'internets' - way back in the early days of online dating.