I resisted Facebook for a long time but... most of my family is in PA; I’m in FL. I have a lot of recent friends from IA, and some from before that in CO. There’s my brother in Iraq, other relatives everywhere from Africa to DC, and of course my Hobbit Hole friends from all over...
But then, as someone who made a lot of real friends on sites like FR, not to mention meeting my hubby here, I don’t draw weird distinctions between real friends and online friends. Heck, I talk to the mostly-online ones more than the “real life” ones I think.
Ditto!