yep, I never thought so, but I'm in a club now where people notice if I'm not there, and call. The people at the gym know me by name and come around to chat. My friends at school not only notice when I'm gone but worry about me and call to see if I'm okay... It's nice.
Sometimes I get to thinking that no one would even notice if I were gone. My experiences with "fading" and missing meetings before we were fading kind of supported that. But now I think people really would miss me.
In the DB environment though, I think there are a few who would notice, but everything moves so fast it takes a while to figure out if someone really hasn't been posting.