My wife and I just had a whole conversation about it actually. Amusingly she was not one of the romantic relationships I maintained on ICQ because we were always with each other in person. But both of us had long lasting friendships on ICQ, some of which moved to other platforms, some of which did not.

And I'm still sad 10 minutes later about the relationships that faded when we switched platforms.

Longing is as real as hunger.

I highly doubt that anybody is going to have a hard time sleeping for many nights because of the news of ICQ shutting down.

I think you’re mixing up “sad” with “depression”.