There's a handful of fascinating people I've known mostly-online. I think I've met four online friends in person since the 90s, and most of them have dropped off the face of the earth. Usually just a Facebook presence now, the old aliases turning up nothing. And enough time has passed that adding them on that platform would be at least weird, and maybe creepy, given that we haven't talked in such a long period of time. So, I don't.
But I wonder what they're up to. If their FB presence is, like mine, something of a honeypot, meant to deflect people from my real online presence, which can be found elsewhere. Are they still making things? Maybe blogging under a new name, or still writing fanfic for their favourite shows? I wonder if that spark's still there. If they haven't settled into what's easiest.