You don’t know about me.

obviously I will  paste this into word (or vice versa) before letting it be gone into the stratosphere.

I said I was just going to copy/paste entries from Prose to here. Why? Because I was devastated when OD shut down. It was a death in the family.

I remember scrambling around, getting friended on facebook, getting email addresses, and even physical addresses (because I’m a dork and like to write letters), downloading the diary, alllll that hairy shit.

I was literally devastated. I had been writing on OD since 1999. My first diary got deleted (yeah. I’m stupid), but I picked up on a brand new one in 2006. Sure, facebook was around, but I had so many friends here that it took me a better part of the day to catch up with everyone. I never skipped an entry. I still don’t skip an entry. over at PB. I was gone for  a few days and I’m still catching up. smh Never skip a day. EVER.

I’m old. Open Diary was the first social network, really. I fell into it, and fit right in.

I made an immediate friend, AloneForever. Jesus. Even after all these years I have to pause after saying that. I have a lot to be thankful for because of Frank.

Open Diary brought so much to my life. I was pretty much a shut in, and just learning about computers thanks to “very cool nephew #1” I don’t remember how I got here, but I just plopped myself down.

I’ve gone under several different names here, but lol don’t remember any of them except for the one I have now. Actually, it was Gilraen Tinehtele at first, but shortened down to Gilraent. I go by this name in many aspects of my life still. The mail carrier must go “wtf” on a regular basis.

I know that 99.9% of my old Open Diary buddies won’t come back. They were hurt just as much as I was when it shut down. That, and the fact that it’s going to be a paid only site (from a business pov I get it) they just won’t come back. Oh and the fact that this will last maybe a year? and lose it all again? Yes, we are all worried about that.

But, maybe I can make new friends here, just like I made new ones at PB.

I love Open Diary. So much of my life is here, it’s just crazy. But I’m also being very cautious. I just don’t want to get fucked over again.

See ya.