Is it normal to fall in love with someone I've never met?

I think if you start falling for someone online without meeting them personally it is a different kind of falling in love, I really do.

I think it is more filling a void which was previously in your life. Loneliness, desperation, self doubt, attention starvation. You meet someone online and you have these notions about who they are, only so much is told of them through their profile and theres room for your mind to expand on it and fantasize about them. They come across as appealing because their text messages are delivered in no tone, and your fantasy at this point shapes how you accept these. You feed off the attention and this beautiful seperation distance feeling of longing.

I'm not saying it can't work out in the real world all I'm saying is falling in love with someone you've never met is different from falling in love with someone, gradually over time, by spending time with them. That is much more human and based in reality.