Consider that a lot of online communication is middled, to keep people apart. That's to give you a wrongful impression of others, via electronic communication, so you will look at them cock-eyed, in real life.

Today, on 'Jacques fun with wireshark and tracert': I decided to block a self-described 'copyright violation monitor', a nameserver with the prefix 15, and a content delivery network, just to see what would happen, or if these IPs hitting my box provide me anything of value.