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well instead of answers which would be of hobby-sociologist quality I'll give you some facts to draw your own conclusions from:
since I dont give a piece of whatever for meeting people just for the sake of meeting them, the usage of common herd gathering places IRL is a waste of time for me.
I found out often enough that a great bunch of people I like to share and exchange with are located far out of a convenient realspace radius, thus IRL i would have never ever KNOW this individuals even exist what is far less than meeting.
so wouldnt the netcomm posibilities exist it isn't that i 'd have more sotial RL connections but rather less in total since the digitally established would be nonexistent.
in cases when the ammount of exchanged data becomes too much/slow for typing only, vocal communication is added.
meeting is something i only regard as a nesessity if the contact reaches - on both sides - an emotional depth that makes the development of a personal relationship possible and probable. yes it happened, lasted some time and ended in my case, I add myself to the group of positively proven cases.
when the contact is not that intensive i do not need to know how somebody tastes, smells, looks or sounds.
sidenote 1) said development begun after we knew each other more than 2 years without having mor than text exchange contact. 2) the relationship ended due to reasons being completely unconected with the specific ways of its beginning.
I have no avatars (nowhere), plainly because I'm not really visual oriented. I wouldn't know what to take and feel no need for.
I even don't use photos as mnemonic hooks as most people do.
my memories of time periods and events are connected to music.
as was said before people LIE - indeed.
but the more they do, the more data they add to the legend the more they have to remember. data is countercheckable. it doesn't work in the long term and is usually not worth the effort to try.
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