I'm in a state not far off from this myself. I spent several years as a regular , daily member of a few odd chatrooms, before I one day came to the conclusion "

I'm in a state not far off from this myself. I spent several years as a regular , daily member of a few odd chatrooms, before I one day came to the conclusion "That's enough of this" and in effect committed infocide within that network. I found them through idle curiousity, I stayed while I felt connected, times changed the people and push came to shove; I left. Unfortunately, this left a hole that I used to fill with some of that (rather disconnected) social interaction, in spite of the continually degraded quality of such. Some time later I now find myself ignoring a prickly itch to hop back on the networks "just to see what's up", instead vacantly seeking through newsfeeds and abandoning the odd attempt to comment partway through. Not sure why I'm submitting this one, I suppose it to be mildly cathartic, but reading this article has granted an interesting perspective on my own situation, so I suppose sharing that is reason enough. Either way, this is quite enough socializing on the internet for this lurker tonight.