You know, I believe there are Freepers who met here on the boards. Not really any different.
I don’t know. I associate “chat room” with not being associated with a particular topic or interest, where people go just for the purpose of meeting others. Meeting someone in a place like that seems a little creepy in comparison to finding someone in a venue oriented around a specific interest or set of values. Course, that’s just my mental picture, and not actually knowing anything about chat rooms, I could be far wide of the mark.
Only if they were pretending to be something they're not. Two people who were being themselves on here (or any online venue) who ultimately meet and hit it off are no different than two people who meet and hit it off in a club, a classroom, a bar, or at church.
Clearly, these freakshows were confused about reality and fantasy, putting the latter above the former.