I've made some real life friends because of our mutual love of writing fanfic. I don't usually share my work with my family, though--my dad looks at it and tells me I should write a western instead and my mom asks why I'm wasting my time writing fanfic when I could get published and make money. I did tell one of my sisters about my LnC/Hunger Games crossover Panem, though--she's a fan of both, so when I have a new chapter she comes to this site to read it.
I've shared a few specific stories with people who enjoyed them in real life. Years ago, I wrote a spoof called Batman and Robin on Titanic, and recently I printed it out and shared it with the owner of the comic shop I patronize. He loved it. I also wrote a short Star Wars story, which I printed out and shared with a young Star Wars fan at the middle school I used to work at (the kid was disappointed that the library had gotten a bunch of Star Wars books and hadn't immediately put them on the shelves, so I gave him my fanfic to give him something to read while we librarians did all the necessary work to get the actual books ready for check-out. He was happy for about a day, then went back to begging for the new books.)
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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