I like the link between real life and writing. I got lucky - boards were popular when clubs were big with me, so I could act like a twit in clubs and be fluffy while writing my more literate, angry, angsty, or on a rare day glimmers of intelligent thought on line. I got a great mesh of people who heard my non-drunk whoring thoughts online and who just had me fun in person.

I think tool is one thing, but not substitutes. I have found I like people online and in person the same way - your words are your thoughts, and other than hotness targeting, that's the type of thing relationships are built on.

Or something like that, for me.