Being agoraphobic and having health problems means I don't get out much, and my 80 year old mother doesn't like people coming into our house so few people visit. Add to that the fact that I only have a couple of people locally I'd class as a friend (most have moved away) means most days the only people I 'talk' to are my friends on the net. Oddly enough, that's okay with me. The people I've met on the net have proved to be truer friends than my real-life friends who abandoned me when I started having health problems. Such is life! At least I have the internet!