It's wild how quickly someone's online presence, and thus your connection with them, can be largely erased with little to no notice. Although, should I be surprised? I've seen it play out plenty of times here and elsewhere. Sometimes, platforms get sunsetted, go kaput, or delete someone's accounts for whatever reason. Other times, like what prompted me to write this, it's the person behind a presence that decides to erase themselves from your life and others'. A formal goodbye followed by neatly wrapping a presence up and optionally providing off-site contact methods is one thing. Delivering a cryptic message soon followed by scrubbing one's presence is an entirely different beast. It's worse with how certain platforms are locked down to where the content of deleted accounts prove so difficult to return to or rediscover. I'm not judging how kind or rude I think either case is. It's important to remember just how little you could understand what's going on in someone's head. Your…
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