Indeed!* People sometimes consider the 'Internet connection"
   between people somehow "less real".* But to me, if it affects
   real people (you're real, I'm real) and we're each moved to
   think and moved to feel - and sometimes even moved to move our
   fingers and type on very real keyboards (or talk into very real
   phones)... travelling across a very physically real network of
   cables and radio waves... ...well then, to me, it's a very real
   connection between two people... who just happen to not be
   within a similar geographical location at a similar point in
   time. :D