[lsd5you]

I can relate to this somewhat, but was anyone saying things like this before the internet? What would someone 30 years ago think about this position. It strikes me as internet enabled behaviour. Canaries in the mine as it were - the first tranche of people to fall out of the natural social order.

[camtarn]

Before the Internet, you had BBSes. And hundreds of years before the BBSes, people carried out intense friendships via pen and ink.