5(!) Years on getDare

On June 1st, 2006, I finally joined a little website named getDare.com after about a week of lurking. That would lead me to state that today is my 5 year anniversary. When I joined getDare, I was the 188th user. Chain, Rob and Glutgod where the best users as far as posting dares on the site at the time, even if the latter two where new as well. I was just looking for dares. I know there were a few times in the sites history where I wanted to leave for good, but I was never able to. A lot of the users that started when I started have disappeared. Others, like Rob, have only changed their identity. And still more, like Chain and Userben and Meth remain.

When I first joined the site, you were lucky if there was two new threads a day and 3 users on at a time. I would have never thought that a site that was based heavily on shitty posts (including many of my early posts) and Dare Points(!!!!!) would turn into this. Nor did I think I would still be here after 5 years. But here I am 5 years later. At the time, I had just finished up my freshman year of high school. College wasn't even a thought of mine. Now I am half way done and just two years from getting a real job (hopefully). My focus has shifted from doing dares (which I still do occasionally) to browsing the lounge, blogs and chat and doing super cool mod stuff like banning people (although others do that more now ).

I am sure some of you will see 5 years on getDare. Some might see 2 or 3 years, then leave. Others might not be back on after today. When I left earlier this year after some issues that happened on the site, I knew that I would be back by today for sure. I came back much earlier after I cooled down, but I always wondered what I was going to put in this blog or how I was going to finish up. To be honest I wrote the ending first, and this is how it goes:

I want to thank two sets of people. The first are the mods/admins. You are all a bunch of f'ed up people. I fit in perfectly! The second is you, the people who read my blogs. This is a great area for me to vent personal frustration or things maybe I couldn't say elsewhere. Thanks for reading it and commenting. I love hearing your opinions. And if you fall into both sets of people, thanks you f'ed up person.