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Have you ever had a very good online friend who suddenly disappeared?


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Yes. A few on/from here actually. 

IRL friendships fade with distance.

Internet friendships fade with time. But not always.

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i played alot of creative plots minecraft servers when i was younger where you were basically guaranteed to suddenly one day just see players disappear. being young, for one reason or another alot of us then couldnt add eachother on skype or a similar program, or didnt think to add eachother. so our only means of regular communication were just expecting to see eachother ingame when we logged into the server the next day. so, pretty regularly we would just stop seeing certain friends of ours with zero explanation. (and ofc most of us never saw eachother again when the server would shut down.)

i wonder where all of those people i played with are now, and if any of them remember me lol

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6 hours ago, DubWolf said:

IRL friendships fade with distance.

Internet friendships fade with time. But not always.

It works as a rule of thumb, but ironically, all my closest IRL friends are far away.

6 hours ago, DubWolf said:

Yes. A few on/from here actually.

It must have been sad to lose those forum friends year after year since the start of the MLP boom.:(

6 hours ago, Artshine Aura said:

i played alot of creative plots minecraft servers when i was younger where you were basically guaranteed to suddenly one day just see players disappear.

I remember those parcel servers :twilightsheepish:, but I didn't make a so-called friend there.

6 hours ago, Artshine Aura said:

i wonder where all of those people i played with are now, and if any of them remember me lol

Those kind of questions google can't answer... :kindness: Makes me feel nostalgic.

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Being careful here with mentioning this online friend, nothing of a return from them since.  

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Demonkitty from the now dead Dragonadopters I still remember you from when I was a child online I hope you're doing well and thank you for talking to me through PMs and also trying to comfort me when one of my cats had died :raritycry:

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12 hours ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

Being careful here with mentioning this online friend, nothing of a return from them since.  

I don't think I entirely understood your message. Is that friend between us but not texting you back? Or is it for respect for what may have happened to that friend?

5 hours ago, Acinonyx said:

perchance is it better for all that those bridges collapsed

Bad influences I guess?

4 hours ago, Raskolnikov said:

Demonkitty from the now dead Dragonadopters I still remember you from when I was a child

:kindness::hug_day:

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1 hour ago, Midnight Insight said:

Bad influences I guess?

Something like that, they were deeply unhealthy friendships with some ultimately not too great people. XRl3JGE.png

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As far as I can remember I never really had any real online friends until I came here to the MLP Forums. All my online friends are here. Some have come and gone, but in some happy cases old friends have returned after prolonged absences. Some may be gone for good but I always hope they’ll return. I don’t think of any of them as ‘disappearing’ exactly; just taking a break. So maybe I’m an optimist but I don’t really think anyone has truly disappeared. 

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I recently had someone who I've not spoken to in almost a year reach out to me for money. Which after hearing from another friend who still interacts with her about the gaslightly rude behavior her and her partner had towards her for no reason had me like nah. Don't miss u. Good luck begging for money while simultaneously being a jerk to your friends.

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Yeah it happens. Sometimes people just grow apart and that’s rough too but it’s understandable since people change over time. Friends disappearring suddenly is harder to deal with since you’re left wondering if they’re okay. But sometimes, people do come back and that’s always a really nice feeling to see them again, even for just a brief interaction.

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I've had many online connections come and go and come again and go again. Many of the connections I've made have been on YouTube, many of those are still intact. A lot of the connections I made on forums like this one, back in the PHP heyday, that's all years ago and I have no idea what became of most people.

I did have one guy disappear on me from one day to the next. He had made statements about maybe serving a brief stint in jail. 

But then, nothing. 

I messaged several times, and eventually some relation of his answered and stated that he was dead. 

That sucked.


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Well, I actually reconnected with one after I suddenly found them in a Discord server.

The only people I’d like to see again were some bronies I roleplayed with back on Tumblr, a good ten years ago. I swear I remember a few and tried looking them up, but there’s a small chance they’re still active in MLP. :ajsleepy:

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many... I neglected them because I stopped playing games for years. When I was back, they were not there anymore or the games didn't have any online server anymore :worry:

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