tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965443537397049089.post3978406251224122765..comments2023-06-14T06:56:27.536-07:00Comments on Libdrone's Thoughts and Musings: A Death In The FamilyLibdronehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11484871168552005274noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965443537397049089.post-3800703690697901952011-04-10T05:40:32.657-07:002011-04-10T05:40:32.657-07:00ender! How nice to see you here. I still follow ...ender! How nice to see you here. I still follow your tweets, but I felt I kind of lost touch with you since that little group we on JD's IRC channel-- which seemed to last a lot less than a couple of years. I've been wading into and drifting away from groups of friends on the Internet for almost 20 years now.<br /><br />Sometimes there is a big dramatic rendering of a community, but as you say more often it seems that people just drift away from each other. And now that you mention it, I too see that pattern with offline relationships. (I've long since stopped distinguishing between people that I know only online or online offline.) <br /><br />OTOH, there's really no one I knew in childhood that I would Want to know no. Good to see you, ender.Libdronehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484871168552005274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6965443537397049089.post-20080998819480834892011-04-10T05:28:07.017-07:002011-04-10T05:28:07.017-07:00The fleeting nature of internet communities has al...The fleeting nature of internet communities has always kind of disturbed me. I was part of one email group for about 10 years before it just kind of faded away and I think that's the group that stayed cohesive the longest. Other groups - or sometimes just blog friends - seem to last no more than a few years at best, at least as a tight or consistent group. Seems it eventually falls to casual connection ... and then often just fades away.<br /><br />And yet, while the internet makes that easy to do (both to meet and to leave), I can also see that same pattern in my "real-life" friends as well. (Quotes used because I don't think that's a good description. My online friends are real-life friends as well. I just haven't physically met most of them.)<br /><br />There are several folks that just sort of drifted away. Calls and emails are exchanged every now and again. Quick dinner somewhere, maybe. And then years pass, numbers are lost or people move.<br /><br />What's the Stephen King line? "I never had friends later on in life like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?"enderhttp://www.coyotethunder.com/RedMonkey/noreply@blogger.com