Glasgow-based livejournal friends

It appears that a number of people who have livejournals in Glasgow are, or have been, getting together. Cleodhna has some as friends, as does Gareth.

This is not particularly new, but it still puzzles me. Forgive me for being old-fashioned (yes, this being the Internet, I can be old-fashioned and not even 30), but I always thought the point of getting to know people on the Internet was to get passionately involved with them, fly across an ocean, and then discover they were psychos.

Being able to quite cheaply go out to the pub with them within 3 months of meeting them, somehow feels like a cop-out to me.