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- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
Ten years ago today I registered on GTPlanet. I have been a member here longer than I have been married.
It has been a glorious decade where I have made some friends and acquaintances and feel as if I am part of a family. I have received great support in times good and bad.
What's funny is that sometimes I forget the exact date something happened in my life. On more than one occasion I have used my posting history to find out the date I was looking for. Reading through my ten years, 22,000 posts history here is like reading a summarized chronicling of my life. This place has become a place where I have been comfortable enough to share my happiest and saddest times in my life.
That is a strange thing to find online. You can't even pull that off on something like Facebook, where you are supposed to be sharing with supposed friends. I don't trust easily. I still have doctors that I don't trust. So, my willingness to share with many of you is a testament to the quality of this site. Much of my more personal takes and updates are in the premium forums, but the tale of my medical issues, the birth of my daughter, and my daily fight that I currently have with a special diet are all on the general sections of the site. My politics are out there for anyone to see. There are things I have discussed and opinions I have shared here that I can't say at work or in the presence of some family because the judgmental attitudes of some around me would create problems.
Ultimately, this place is my online home. It would be my browser's start up page if I didn't want others to to be able to just hop on, logged in as me. You never know when your dad is going to tell the whole world about how you were lying about your car and that you've been grounded, right?
So, thank you GTPlanet for being a place I have happily spent ten years of my life (more if you count the time I spent looking for GT tips without having signed up) and hope to spend much more.
And thank you to @Jordan for creating a place where a bunch of fans of a game that most people couldn't understand could come together. And congratulations to all the staff, past and present, for succeeding in creating an online community that succeeds at all the right things that most social media fails to pull off.
And posted with four minutes to spare.
It has been a glorious decade where I have made some friends and acquaintances and feel as if I am part of a family. I have received great support in times good and bad.
What's funny is that sometimes I forget the exact date something happened in my life. On more than one occasion I have used my posting history to find out the date I was looking for. Reading through my ten years, 22,000 posts history here is like reading a summarized chronicling of my life. This place has become a place where I have been comfortable enough to share my happiest and saddest times in my life.
That is a strange thing to find online. You can't even pull that off on something like Facebook, where you are supposed to be sharing with supposed friends. I don't trust easily. I still have doctors that I don't trust. So, my willingness to share with many of you is a testament to the quality of this site. Much of my more personal takes and updates are in the premium forums, but the tale of my medical issues, the birth of my daughter, and my daily fight that I currently have with a special diet are all on the general sections of the site. My politics are out there for anyone to see. There are things I have discussed and opinions I have shared here that I can't say at work or in the presence of some family because the judgmental attitudes of some around me would create problems.
Ultimately, this place is my online home. It would be my browser's start up page if I didn't want others to to be able to just hop on, logged in as me. You never know when your dad is going to tell the whole world about how you were lying about your car and that you've been grounded, right?
So, thank you GTPlanet for being a place I have happily spent ten years of my life (more if you count the time I spent looking for GT tips without having signed up) and hope to spend much more.
And thank you to @Jordan for creating a place where a bunch of fans of a game that most people couldn't understand could come together. And congratulations to all the staff, past and present, for succeeding in creating an online community that succeeds at all the right things that most social media fails to pull off.
And posted with four minutes to spare.
