"Fact is, meeting new people is hard." Meeting a limited amount of new people is fine. I definitely like some of the people that I've met on HN but have never

"Fact is, meeting new people is hard." Meeting a limited amount of new people is fine. I definitely like some of the people that I've met on HN but have never seen them either visually in real time or in person. And I have no desire to do so. I think that's a disadvantage. Now you might say it would be cool if the person you met was a pretty girl (or guy) but would it really be? Or just another reason to waste time gawking at someone located in another time zone and waste time dreaming of something that would never happen.