On the 'net, there are kids, and really immature ones. But as for your example, people at major colleges would have the maturity not to spam someone on AIM, etc. Whenever I do something great, such as achieving my black belt a couple years back (took 5 years), a lot of people at my Tang Soo Do studio congratulated me :) And also football, both times getting Defensive Player of the Year I got the same treatment, it feels good to have some people say "nice job" every once and a while.