As someone who has met multiple lovers/partners and my husband online, I can tell you that the key to making real connections online is to not think that the online world is drastically different from ‘the real one’...sure, there are certain things you can’t see, body language and all but if you’re honest, willing to be vulnerable, willing to take a chance, it is possible to form friendships, relationships, what have you online…you just have to stop being so paranoid that the online world is more dangerous than your non-online world