I miss EP……..

@Foxes I wonder if we ever crossed paths! I pretty much stuck to my circle, but I made a lot of annoying (and looking back, embarrassing) posts. 😂

@InvisibleGirl What was your username? Perhaps I'll remember you.

@Foxes hmmm. Hann1100, I believe.

@InvisibleGirl I don't remember that name, but it's still possible that we crossed paths.

@Foxes it’s difficult to remember the usernames but did you know Ellen2001 (I think) or NaughtyIvy? I also knew an Ellie but can’t remember her username at all.

@InvisibleGirl No, I don't think I know any of those. It's been so long that it's hard to recall.

@Foxes It is a long time ago. I really only remember the six people in my “circle” and a few of the others who liked to troll. I even miss the banter with the trolls, it’s not the same here.

@InvisibleGirl It really isn't the same here. This site reminds me of a retirement home.

@Foxes Hahaha! That’s a brilliant way to describe SW! 😂

@Foxes EP began as a site mostly for [b]adults[/b] (Armen Berjikly founded it in 2006 based on a similar site he established for MS patients) When the app was added, kids flooded the site. You may think SW is like a "retirement home", but I watched EP go from a support group for mostly adults to [b]high school[/b]. One of the many reasons people who had been paying started leaving.

@bijouxbroussard I didn't mean any offence with my comment, I merely meant that things go much slower here.

@bijouxbroussard Honestly though, I think a lot of the “kids” on EP, were not actually “kids.” I found a core group and I was blessed and we pretty much kept to ourselves. And we all know that we were teenage girls because we moved from EP to actual texting / video chat. We mostly didn’t interact with anything inappropriate. We made ridiculous posts, but that’s harmless. I would receive messages from all sorts of “teens” and it was pretty obvious that they were not teens. Most of them opened up the chat telling me how they were still sp@nked at 14, 15, 16, 17 years old. Teens just…don’t do that and it was really strange. The only thing I had a hard time navigating was the unsolicited d!ck pics from old men. Sorry that your “safe space” got invaded though.

@InvisibleGirl Unfortunately, that was the other fallout with the presence of underage kids—pedophiles & ephebophiles. Obviously that wasn’t the teens’ fault, but it was an ugly element about the site.

@bijouxbroussard I’m conflicted because it forced me to grow up in some ways and it wasn’t a good place for teens in general. But it gave me so much and I wouldn’t want to change it. My experience was one of the better ones, I found great friends my own age and even a few really incredible adults who helped council us through some things. They never asked for any photos, but we’re just there to help. Sometimes it’s hard to tell parents stuff and we definitely shouldn’t have been on EP, but we found so much good there. I still talk to those adults today, by the way. They are good people.