I think you could casually meet a "weirdo" just as easy as you could meet a "weirdo" online. these days it really doesn't matter.....
I met my husband online 8 years ago. I would frequant a chat room for people in the st louis area! I thought he was a "dirty old man" he never talked only said "hi" to certain people as they came in (like the dirty old men do. Well three months after I noticed him he finally PMd me and I decided to check his profile. he wasn't a "dirty old man". we talked for several months and then I went to st. louis to meet him at the bowling alley. we have been together every day since! Come July we will have been married five years! We have three kids and he still tells people how I thought he was a dirty old man! LOL