Definitely... I've met more awesome people online, who I would actually call friends, than in all my years in the non-Internet world.
For sure. Which is why it was actually hard for me to delete my WF account, because I did meet people I would consider friends over there and wish I had kept up with some other way to talk to them. Much like life, you drift apart. Easier to find people that are in to the same stuff as well on the interwebs, coming on a wrestling forum means I'm already having something in common with people. You cut out all that getting to know people and awkward first interactions
One day I'll probably log on here for the last time or someone else will, because life happens, that's the only tough part about internet friendships. I had plenty of people on Xbox/Playstation who I chatted with for months and they just went offline one day and never got back on