I have to agree with Omecle and Miriel. I met my husband online. We talked online for a little while and then talked on the phone. We also only lived 5 miles apart. After a few weeks of that we met and have been inseparable ever since. We're married and expecting our second child.
We spent our time online getting all the awkward questions out of the way. "What do you do? Are you in school? Siblings? Goals? blah blah blah..." So that way when we met, we already had stuff to talk about and we had none of the awkwardness...