I got to know people through here, feedback/replies and Twitter. I talk to Lore on AIM sometimes when we can arrange a suitable time that we are both available, but the time difference can be a pain! I would love to meet up with people one day, but unless I win the lottery or something, then maybe Skype or something like that would have to do, lol.
I have met up with Take That fans/fanfic writers in the past and also when I went to the Supernatural convention last year made a couple of friends who I've kept in touch with and met up with not so long ago.