I suck at making friends offline, I have numerous friends offline but all live interstate so I figured it would be cool to have some friends online as well seeing as more often then not it is the only way I can talk to people. I think it is good to have online friends, having people as friends from different corners of the world is awesome to me.
I'm about the same way. Most of my offline friends including people I've been friends with since childhood don't live anywhere near me and certainly not close enough to socialize in person regularly. Fortunately I live in a part of the USA where people like to go on holiday and that's often the way I am able to get together with some far-away family members and friends! I have even met a few of my online friends in person this way! (Usually meeting up in Orlando.)
My main problem locally had been meeting people who share my musical interests, are into music as much as I am, want to socialize doing music related things AND are also halfway sane individuals!
It's very cool meeting like minded people online from all over the place who I can discuss music with.
It's both wonderful and amazing how cool the members of this forum seem to be and the forum itself is such a cool place to hang out. I've seen and been places where there's some real over the top lunatics. It's not like that here at all which is GREAT! I don't have a problem with the friend requests here.
Yes, I agree, making friends with people online who are from literally all over the world is quite AWESOME!!!