First, congratulations on matching the word count 😀
You say it's hard to be positive when you lose friends? But friends on Hive are there, maybe inactive, maybe they've given up, but they can come back at any time. They certainly haven't forgotten you, considering your engagement on Pinmapple.
Such is the life cycle of accounts on social networks. Some are logged out, others are logged in and so on in a circle 🙂
Virtual friends are a lot more difficult to keep than real life friends, many I 'know' quite well and know a lot about them through their post and conversation, but don't even know their name. But that's just a fact of virtual life and we have to accept our virtual friends could just disappear in the thin air
Life is cruel...
For this reason of "disappearing", both real life and virtual friends, we should constantly make new friends, expand the circle of people we know, and at every opportunity, make a virtual friend a real life friend.
Here at Hive, there is an event that enables such a transformation, the Hive meetup 🙂
I haven't had a chance to devirtualize a friend, but I've only been here for a year... So in the coming years I'll probably have such a chance.