EoFF is a constant in my life. It provides me with a place I can always go to during the highest of highs and lowest of lows. Even when I'm not posting, it still is a place I can go to and read about what people think about pretty much anything. Effectively this place is my online home, and the members are my online family. The friendships I have made by communicating with people at EoFF are precious and important to me. It also never ceases to amaze me how people who I don't really know on any personal level will reach out to me privately when I suggest in any way that my life is not at it's best. This place seems to attract genuinely good people.

The bad, for me personally, is that I have lost all anonymity here. This is bad because when I have any kind of life problem I can no longer talk about it with online friends because my online and offline family and friends have become one. Everyone talks to one another. I have family members who Facebook with EoFFers, workmates that know about this place, things like that. This means that the initial thing that made me so love EoFF - a place where I could post with anonymity while still feeling I am talking with friends - is no longer something I can hold onto.

As for the current state of EoFF, it's just growing up into a different person. When you're growing up, your friendships become less active and sometimes they simply become fewer, although those bonds that remain can be tighter than ever. I think as the age of the average EoFFer has risen, so too has the dynamic. That's life. It's not good or bad, it's just different.