Indeed!* People sometimes consider the 'Internet connection"
  between people somehow "less real".* But to me, if it affects
  real people (you're real, I'm real) and we're each moved to
  think and moved to feel - and sometimes even moved to move our
  fingers and type on very real keyboards (or talk into very real
  phones)... travelling across a very physically real network of
  cables and radio waves... ...well then, to me, it's a very real
  connection between two people... who just happen to not be
  within a similar geographical location at a similar point in
  time. :D