Yes yes. When Simon asked me on the first day i met Rebecca f2f if she was a virtual buddy, my immediate response was “what’s a virtual buddy anyway? ” because she was just my buddy. Even before i ever met her even synchronously. The idea of et4buddy came to us before we ever had a sync convo. It’s about how far, how deeply we engage and what we go thru together, isn’t it? Like u and Claudia. Or u and many other ppl, really 🙂 It’s how much quality time we spend and how much of ourselves we reveal or invest into these relationships that… In some ways… Have less tangible benefit except the intrinsic beauty of what it is (more so for me coz of cultural and geographic distance)