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Do You Remember

How busy you were on EP?

It was like Grand Central Station with people coming and going on your profile all night. You had to juggle so many incomings, PMs, whiteboard messages, live chats, gifts, responding to comments on your own post and others. You had to ignore everyone if you wanted to write a story, or turn your green light off to get a few minutes to compose one. Then your live chat boxes would grow, and that would throw me for six. I just couldn’t talk to that many people at once. My phone and laptop was pinging all the time, and the last day of EP was no different...ping, ping, ping, every few seconds. From the moment I logged on to logging off, which was hours, it was all go, and it was fantastic. I’ve never experienced anything like it in my online life.

What an incredible experience, and I met so many great people from all over the world, which led me to making about 100 friends on FB on a different continent, and they’d never even been on EP. Even fell in love for five delicious, and agonizing years. Whew!

I sometimes wish it could be like that again...here...but the world has changed, and I’ve changed, so it wouldn’t be the same. Still, it’s nice to reminisce that amazing time. It saved my life.

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SW-User

Yep sure do remember. Those were the days. This place is lacking a ton as compared. They doin a really good job with creating it and the format. But it's the user base and some of the disgusting groups and fetishes that ruin it. Also there needs to be a huge attempt to draw new members.

Saw someone else say this - And so right on.
[quote]Any troll can post porn or smut, while thoughtful posts and pics are much rarer, so what happens is the tone of the site changes and what kept people coming back to the original site EP, namely meaningful interaction, is diluted[/quote]

Carissimi · F

@SW-User I agree. Even though EP had its share of smut and depravity it was more than counterbalanced with the deep and meaningful stories of human experience and interaction.
The majority of the user base here is definitely more shallow and flippant, but I do wonder if that’s a sign of how much the culture has changed in the past 5-years?

SW-User

@Carissimi Yup but ya didn't notice the smut there as much because there was such good writing and more substance and a ton more members. Here it's more about attention grabbing shallow selfie posts, nudes and juvenile garbage, not unlike middle school.

But yeah gotta give credit to a few good writers that post some thoughtful stuff.