What you found is that the internet is kind of a poor way to form meaningful connections with people. It's a great way to form a high quantity of low-quality re

What you found is that the internet is kind of a poor way to form meaningful connections with people. It's a great way to form a high quantity of low-quality relationships with people. In this way it's kind of like fame. Now that everybody has a persona on the internet, it's like they're micro-famous. (Or actually the persona is famous, but I digress.) Which means they have a micro- version of the same fame-related problems that actually-famous celebs have, among which are... a high number of largely meaningless connections to people who mean nothing to you. What you've done might be some kind of Pareto optimization where the 80% that provide 20% of the value, are suddenly not in the picture taking up your time and effort.