You should come to our great meetups ;-)

I can fully understand that the internet looks that way to people who grew up and live in places where there are actually people to talk to.  In the US suburbs in which I grew up in the 80's and 90's, you never spoke to anyone outside school/work circles, and were often as not separated from family circles by hundreds/thousands of miles.  That kind of intense isolation, and the complete absence of community, pre-dated the internet by decades, and the ability of the net to re-create some semblance of community discussion and presence is one of the reasons it's caught on as much as it has.

That, and porn.