For the first few years of my membership here, I had to keep EoFF and my personal life very separate. My mom flipped her trout when she found out I was talking to internet criminals and rapists and stalkers on the internet and lived in mortifying fear that one of you nerds were going to invade our house and rob us at gunpoint at any point in time. And she hated Daniel Towns. Hated him.

Buuut once Spiff and I got together, the two started to merge together, mostly. Some of my friends in school knew that I talked to people online, and I think they thought it was a bit odd but didn't really say anything against it. I mostly kept it private, though, because I didn't want to be judged. It just wasn't something that was common in the early and mid 2000's. Now, EoFF is all over my facebook, and my friends know that I have friends in "faraway places". Close friends know I met them online and sometimes I can see that acquaintances want to ask "how did you meet these people?" but they never do.