*sigh*
First of all, I said the internet wasn't the best place to meet chicks, not "it's a bad place to meet anyone". Second, you can talk to some girl online, and really get a relationship going, then meet her in real life only to find "she" is a 400 pound middle age guy. That is not something you have to deal with in real life. The internet may be fine for friendships and whatnot, and if that's all you're after (which it didn't sound like from your first post, no matter what you say), then fine. But, as I said before, the internet is not the best place to go looking for relationships of the other kind, despite the fact that some people get lucky.