Let us make cardboard cutouts of our friends from paper so we can give the appearance that they were at the legendary historic party that they missed when their computer broke down, got called into work, had to go to class, overslept or saw something shiny. This way they can be in the screen shot even when offline.
These can also help decorate our 30-50k houses where we have way too much room and are worried about rogue rooks, juju or ghosts sneaking up on us when we are all alone...
Maybe a gnome like quote bubble would help add warmth to the 2 dimensional fill in or at least make it more funny.