“Have you met your former friend also online, or you knew him in person?”

It was exclusively online.

“What do you think? Would you say this is true?”

That’s possible, though I like said before, it’s not like everything was bad. We’ve had great times together too.
I still remember vividly every person I was involved with somewhat deeply from those times and all of them hold a special place in my heart, even though we haven’t had any contact in well over a decade and I wouldn’t even know how to contact them anymore.