I don’t have a particular answer. I don’t understand your question actually. You make it sound as having online friends is a requirement or not having them is some kind of deficiency. Is that something people have to have?

I have ton of friends, family, husband, kid, stepkids, niece and nephews, hobbies, career, travel regularly, I belong to various organizations, volunteer etc I have a very busy life.

Yes I have friends who live in other countries because either I or they end up moving. We keep in touch regularly and at times when one of us travels overseas we manage to meet, but not that often.

I do understand other cultures and world being an amazing place. I am trilingual, fluently speak all three, i lived in two countries, I travelled to 20 countries (several of them way more than once) and travelled around about half of the US. You make it sound like not having online friends make me somehow stuck in a mud or not understand amazinglness of this world?

Perhaps I misunderstand