I tend to find that it takes some time to get used to people on the internet. Approaching them not with ideas of anything substantial. People on the internet WILL let you down. It's not about if but when. So learning and realizing this is important. I for one never let myself be close to online people because I know that one day they can easily disappear on you or they act the same way with everyone. You can mistake kindness with romantic interest easily. When it comes to the internet, no one is special or something worth attaching to because it's all very fake.

Now that I think about it everything in life is fake so it's not very different from the real world.