People disappearing from online

[eroticstoryspinner]

Anyone had someone that you have had extended online conversations with just drop off the grid so to speak?

My editor and alpha reader ZZChromosone has been silent since June 16th. My last conversation he had talked abut new job stress and being busy. Since then nothing and no responses to my emails just asking how he was doing. Part of me says that is just life, but in the crazy time we are I am really concerned too.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Anyone had someone that you have had extended online conversations with just drop off the grid so to speak?

My editor and alpha reader ZZChromosone has been silent since June 16th. My last conversation he had talked abut new job stress and being busy. Since then nothing and no responses to my emails just asking how he was doing. Part of me says that is just life, but in the crazy time we are I am really concerned too.

There was someone who had been a long time poster on the Lit boards who started reading My Fall and Rise, and, each time I published a chapter, read it and wrote me a very detailed message with comments and questions. I really appreciated her insights and we had many great conversations.

Then she just stopped. No most posts, no more messages. That was three years ago, not a peep from her since.

 

[Sextified]

Anyone had someone that you have had extended online conversations with just drop off the grid so to speak?

I had a very faithful pre-reader on my other site. She always gave me encouragement, insight on what she liked most about my stories, and what it was in her own personal life that connected her to some of my main characters so strongly. Very intimate, detailed and helpful information.

When my story jumped back in time, she saw how one of the ex-couples were really like when they were together. Her comments slowed down, but she still voted very highly. As the relationship with the two main characters finally got over its final impasse, and all was going extremely well in the story for them, I got a very odd note.

She said that she'd actually had a relationship with a real life man, just like my main character. She first learned to be submissive with him. They loved each other. All was going well. Then he passed away in a motorcycle accident. She said that she knew then that she'd just lost the love of her life. My character's love affair reminded her too strongly about what she had lost, and that she was going to completely abandon the novels, and get off line.

I never heard from her again.

It was odd that she was fine with them being split up, and staying totally isolated from each other, in the future. She was fine with them being just friends, in the distant past. But when the book finally let everyone see what had been lost, in the "present", where the two characters were soulmates, she evidently had an emotional break when she started reading those chapters.

I still miss my online friend, and her insights. She even went so far as to delete all of her accounts. I don't even know if she ever got to read my reply apologizing for accidentally stirring up such strong emotions, that I understood her pain, and that I wished her well.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes. Years ago I had two friends in Germany. We'd exchange long emails about writing and cosplay. They used to attend Victorian themed events all over Germany. They had a substantial website in German and English.

But then they suddenly vanished as did their website. I think their personal relationship ended.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Too many to count. Maybe it's me.

 

[kissedcherry]

Is this a life-long commitment?

I think that at some point or another we will all leave Literotica. When I signed up I did not view it like a marriage. I like some features and some things seem like a waste of time. If I get too busy with other things in life I will just leave. I would send a note to those that I PM with but then poof! If I switch working out from one gym to another I don't feel a need to explain it to everyone. I don't join gyms with a sense that I am part of a club or something.

 

[SimonDoom]

I can't recall this happening to me, but I've been a Literotica reader long enough that I've wondered what happened to some of the writers who no longer seem to be involved in any way. Most, though not all, have left their stories here as a legacy, of which I'm glad. But it's human nature to wonder where they've gone.

 

[jehoram]

I don't know if this counts, but I've been trying to reach desert slave on a question of permissions. I've posted to her on the forum and PMed her, with no results. She doesn't seem to have been active for a number of years now.

 

[Omenainen]

Maybe I’m gloomy, but if someone disappears without a trace, and never reappears, I just assume they’re dead.