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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I just think of it as shorthand for the very real phenomenon that some people fall off the radar in every measurable way

Sure. But there tends to be a certain distance already baked in. Unless you have a deep bound with someone - a parent / sibling / child, typically - once you stop interacting with that person IRL, there's less and less of an incentive to engage with them remotely.