No offense, y'all are great people, but for some reason I keep thinking that I like this forum most about last year. Maybe it's because I was most active last year and knew the people who hanged around then really well (e.g. emily, simon, fool, vbd, etc.). I stopped coming here for a while, and when I came back there were all new faces and I just felt like I didn't belong here anymore. As I come here more frequently, I begin to get to know everyone. Still, I feel like I'm never going to know everyone as well as I used to those people.
There's also another forum I go to. I really enjoyed going there once upon a time, but after I left for a while, the forum was flooded with completely new faces except for a couple or so. There are still discussions going on, but I feel like I'm not quite a part of them anymore.
Anyway, does anyone ever feel like this? Is it weird to feel sad when the "friendships" with people you've met only over the internet start decaying? When a forum "friend" disappears, do you actually feel like you've lost a friend in your "real-life" (or maybe I'm just the one with not-so-many real-life friends so I care about my forum friends so much)? Ever have the urge to send your lost forum friends an e-mail? Or, for that matter, ever wish you'd met a forum friend so you could get in touch forever?
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