thanks you guys!~

yes! i love being a username and random picture sometimes instead of "me" on social media.

growing up on the internet means i've had this conversation countless times. IRL family members would tell me when i was younger that these "internet people" aren't my "real friends, because you don't know them." i'd argue that i knew them better than i knew people in my own house, because as Hayley mentioned, when all you have are forums or a basic instant messenger all you have is typing so maybe your conversations are a little more thought out.

getting older i started to look around at my IRL friendships and saw a lot of them were based on convenience, we went to the same school, or worked in the same place. "internet friends" tended to exist because of a mutual interest.
of course i do have IRL friends who i consider to be my family, but i have never been one to have a solid core group of friends, i have always had multiple groups/people who do not often overlap and i think this stemmed from having worldwide "internet friends" early on in life. each group/person knows a slightly different side of me.

all that being said, i met my best friend on neopets probably almost two decades ago now, and yes, we both still play - though not on our original accounts.

hi there!
i stumbled across this place during a nostalgia search for things/places/etc that are more like the creative wild west internet we grew up on, instead of cookie cutter social media sites that it has become. (i'm not anti social media at all just to clarify, i just miss how fun the internet used to feel i think).

i'm looking forward to checking this place out and having chats with new people, maybe even learning some new things!

also i can't seem to find an image small enough to use as an avatar just yet xD i'll work on it.