Downloading Graal actually benefitted me in real life, and had I not downloaded it I don't think my real life would be as good as it is now.

I'm not friends with that many people posting here but the ones who know me know I am a very straight forward guy with a very weird personality so as a kid friends were always out of the question. I also had low confidence due to being born with a severe case of pectus excavatum(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectus_excavatum) and having lost my two front teeth in a hotel accident(17, still not fixed; one tooth has grown in the middle on an angle looking pretty unappealing).

So when I discovered Graal it was a chance for me to fit in for once and not have to worry about getting judged or anything, but after I met all these people and becoming good friends we all became more open about our selves and that's when I realized I wasn't all too bad and they had even thought my chest condition was really cool (I always hid it to the best of my ability in real life) but these people were a huge confidence boost for me which started making it easier for me to interact in real life now I have both a healthy life online and offline from it.

On a side note, I have a German friend who only knows how to speak English because of Graal and that's pretty cool.