The online world has changed, Granny. A whole lot of people have recognized that the line between online and not-online life is rapidly blurring into indistinctness. People have been sued (and lost) over online stalking, trolling, and so forth. That any less "real world" than threatening (only) to rat out someone posting from their taxpayer-financed job? Some cockend in the UK got arrested and fined for troll-posting a dead girl's memorial Facebook page. Pretty goddamn real world, wasn't it?

You also seem to think that cyberspace/meatspace barrier is impermeable...in the sense of someone's hurtful actions online somehow not having a detrimental effect on real world people. That the natural hurt and anger resulting from online abuse is somehow not an artifact that exists in the real world. Perhaps you're that thick-skinned and insensitive (most trolls are), but I'm not. Neither are a whole lot of people. For them, their abuser has already taken it to the real world.

Every single person in the world whose opinion I value (admittedly, not exactly a friggin' legion...) knows that I am utterly trustworthy. If you have a different opinion, then: