yeah sure, why not?
as long as you keep seing each others in person after you meet on the net
cause you know, meeting the person once in your life is not enough for you to decide you love him/her
90% of communication is body laguage
the internet only tells you 10% about that person
you could be boring your chat friend to death and he/she keeps sending you the

smily, how would you know what's really happening?