You never know when one of your online friends is going to pack up and leave, forever, which is why you shouldn't take them for granted. I learned that the hard way, sadly. I miss my friends you did choose to pack up, some of them were my greatest friends ever. I would do (almost) anything just to talk to them again.
In real life, though, you really can't pack up, unless you move away somewhere far. In real life, I have people who I wish could pack up. Sometimes, even I wish I could, and move somewhere just to have a fresh start again. A clean page, a blank canvas, to begin again.
If you pack up online, though, you really aren't getting a fresh start. You have friends online, that would miss you, even though it might not seem like it. (I've seen this happen, too.) I learned to deal with the people who make me want to pack up on here. If you just pack up, you are really letting them win. It will just give them permission to dig deeper and make more people leave, until everyone's gone. Staying might be hard, but just think to yourself, "They don't even know me. These are just lies, and they know it, and I know it, too."
