Over the past 12 years it has had varying importance to me. 2001-2004 it was something to check out when I was bored and read about FF in the lower forums. I never even posted in the upper ones. Didn't really have any friends on the forum and no one really knew me. 2004-2010 I made a lot of friends and became close to a few people and everything was a flurry of activity. I checked out the place multiple times every day and racked up most of my posts/visitor messages. I can't exactly say it helped me develop and become who I am because I was already an adult but it did influence things in my life and held a few important parts of it. Unfortunately by the end of it most of the people I cared about were gone and I only met a handful of new people. I also kinda drifted apart from other people I was friends with. 2010-2012 I rarely posted and had trouble finding interest in things happening here. I still checked on the place infrequently but I posted far less than I came here. Now I'm back to checking the place at least once a day and would like to get closer to people again. It's made it's way back onto my browsers most visited sites list again. Sometimes it's discouraging though.