Internet equals short distance?

Nowadays, internet is the most easy and fast way to chat with people, even if they're in the other side of the world. If you think about making new friends, know about other culture and news places, this is the best invention in terms of communication already done. On the other hand, this easy way to chat at home isn't so good, because people are thinking individually, and sometimes we prefer to stay at home and chat with friends using msn, orkut to meet them 'face to face'. I have many friends that 'unlearned' how to talk alive to others, because they changed their meeting to online chatting. In my opinion, using internet can be good because you can talk to many people around the world, so in this case, it equals short distance, but if you think about the distance between us, it's increasing the distance!