Word for the "life/world" outside phone calls, text messages, and the Internet?
The cyber-cool among us use the phrase meatspace to refer to the physical world.
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Consider re-working the phrase to accommodate In Person
eg "She seemed to have taken measures to avoid me in person as well -- she quit our shared classes..."
Virtual is a one-word description for 'phone, messages, emails'.
Real life or real world describes the opposite.
As for the real world, she also seemed to have taken measures: she quit our shared classes and stopped frequenting the places where we used to cross paths.
Also, Collins American English Dictionary has the real as noun
noun
- anything that actually exists, or reality in general (with the)
So a shorter and more colloquial usage will be
As for the real, she also seemed to have taken measures: she quit our shared classes and stopped frequenting the places where we used to cross paths.
An update on 'real' for phone vs 'virtual' for computer.
Some people insist that a phone conversation is real rather than virtual (see Josh61's comment below). Also, some marketing experts relate phone communication to real as in this article, 'Virtual vs. Real Life Communication: What Do Workers Prefer?' on The Business News Daily:
Forty percent of workers say they worked with someone for an extended period of time without ever meeting that co-worker in person or talking on the phone.
But from the point of view of pure physics as science, the real is tangible; consider this example on Michigan State University website:
Real images are those where light actually converges, whereas virtual images are locations from where light appears to have converged.
Finally in the OP's given example, from the point of view of the guy, everything is virtual except for face-to face meeting.
In the good old days of the internet the abbreviation IRL (in real life) was the term that was always used. It was popular enough that people would say "IRL" IRL
The opposite of the virtual world would be the physical world. I also like face-to-face or "in person".