But it's impossible to know another well enough to give many compliments with only online interactions.
I know that you have a wonderful daughter, are holding a family together and still find the time to hang out with us; and I know for a fact that you despite all my dubious "eloquence", have a way of brightening the mood with whatever you say.
Don't give compliments for the sake of it, and they don't have to be many. Yet if you write something from Australia, and it makes a bloke from Europe even for a blink second happier than he was before, it is something. This happened, it's crazy, and you are the one responsible. Something you've left behind, and that's really all there is to it, now isn't it?
Then again, it probably boils down to the fact I'm going to be fourty soon, and am still amazed at this "Internet" concept everyone is crazy about...