This is very true. I recently met a few guys from a Rangers forum for the first time at a local bar for one of the 1st round games. She found it very odd. Said how I complain so much about my "actual" friends never getting together often enough, why waste time with new people you don't actually know? My response was, well, I do know them. I never said I didn't know them. I said I never met them. I talk to these guys every day. Just as often as I talk to my "real" friends. My "real friends" don't care to meet up for a beer and watch a game, these guys do, so we are. She then found it odd that two guys from a lawn care facebook group came over the house to help me with my front yard project. I told her I don't know what to say. My "real friends" are content texting every day and seeing each other once a month. My "fake friends", I guess?, want to get together. Am I supposed to say no because I know them from the internet and not from elementary/middle school? lol.
Edit - Oh, plot twist, even though my wife and I went to high school together and had a lot of friends in common, we never actually crossed paths in school. We met...wait for it...ONLINE DATING