They are not words I use lightly, so to say it to someone I have never met no matter how much we may have chatted or emailed or talked on the phone just isn't feasible with me. Online does give you the opportunity to get to know someone on a whole different and deeper set of levels, but it doesn't allow all aspects of love to form.

Fall in love with the idea of love yes


But that's like falling in love with a movie you watched or a book you read, filling in lots of ways but not there in the same way.

its my opinion that you can feel the beginning of love you feel like you just have to find out if your feelings are real and yes meeting the person and having that personal contact would comfirm if the feelings you think you have are in reality real

Is it practical to tell someone you met online that you love them?

not if you never met them, that would be creepy.