Online friends count. But notice who you’d call if the Wi-Fi went out for a week.

Friendships made online are real friendships, and pretending otherwise ignores where plenty of people actually found their people. The useful line is not online against offline. It is who stays reachable when the usual channel is gone: whether you have a number, whether they know your town, whether there is any route to each other outside one app. Closeness that lives in exactly one place is fragile in a specific way.

Get the phone number. Move one of those friendships a step closer to the physical world this month, whether that is a call or a plan to meet. Keep the ones who are there either way.