Which completely ignores my side point that it is alien and disturbing but that does not necessarily make it wrong. I refuse to apologize for calling such things creepy because they *are* creepy. I refuse to apologize for saying that I couldn't be someone else's friend without actually knowing them because it's true. But at no point did I say other people couldn't view those they met online as friends, just that it's creepy as all hell and I view it as akin to saying you're friends with a character in a book for the reasons I gave. I don't have an omniscient morality license, but that's why I find such things creepy, and you ain't gonna change that by getting indignant or offended by the fact any more than I'm going to try to make people stop doing things that creep me out. Both of which would be hideous perversions of ideals I hold dear, and completely wasted efforts.