The people you can meet online also exist in the real world and probably in your area. I fail to see any argument here that is an actual rebuttal to the thread. This has nothing to do with free time or otherwise. It has to do with the concept of stereotyping the people you know offline and deciding they don’t even exist online and that people who spend all their free time online are somehow advantaged by default.

Stereotyping is foolish. Especially on such a small sample set simply because of outsized exposure.