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Originally Posted by pwalker8
One of the many bad things about a situation like this is wondering about what's happened to online friends and acquaintances. I know there are several here who have mentioned in passing being older or living in an assisted living facility. When someone like that stops posting, I wonder if something happened to them. I've been involved in online communities since the early 80's when I was on BIX. Sometimes someone will post when one of the community has passed, but usually it's simply "anyone remember so-n-so? Wonder what happened to them."
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Yeah. I remember, when I joined MR, there was a regular poster here from Japan, who was over 90 years old (by their own words). He/she stopped posting a few years ago. It's easy to guess the likely reason for that, of course. But still, I've wondered sometimes.
OTOH, there have been several younger members who have stopped posting here, but by all accounts are still alive and well (some members have met them in other online forums).