30 Days of Truth - A Letter to an Internet friend

Dear Whole Internet,

As a whole, you're pretty fucked up. But you've introduced me to some amazing people. Between goatse and lemonparty, there's a whole world I used never to know about. But after almost 13 solid years on the internet (!?), you've got some sites I love most. I don't have many internet friends, and I've recently lost the one most important to me. But above all, the Internet has been my friend that whole time, and while it may have annoyed me for my self, it has also allowed me to explore it.

Blogger, you're one of these. Thank you for giving me and a million other people a place to vent, to speak when the words can't be spoken aloud.

Twitter, you too. You're teaching me to be able to talk to myself again, and I never thought I'd be so grateful for it. It's nice to be able to talk to yourself and have other people chime in, without it meaning I'm crazy. I've met some pretty awesome people through Twitter, and there are at least ten million more awesome people left to discover.

Archive.org. Fuck yes. So many of the places I used to visit went down, but who backed them up? Archive.org. Thanks for also hosting the oldasfuck versions of Iridescent Dreams.

LibraryThing, I cannot express in words how grateful I am to you. Thanks to you, it's really easy to keep track of books I have, books I want, and books I've lost. You're an AMAZING tool for a book nerd like me, and I hope you stay around for a very long while.

FETLIFE. You are probably the only site here I visit frequently. And I visit you waaaay more often than Facebook*. You've let me connect with thousands of people, all over the world, with similar interests, and done the same for countless other pervs with no one to talk to.

I feel I owe you a debt, Internet. You've helped me fight off my demons and improve myself, even when I was barely capable of doing so. I've got at least ten solid years of information from you, and you keep growing every day. While my current intake of information is around 4GB daily, I know it's nothing compared to what you could do. Thank you Internet, you've saved my life more than once.


Much love,
HouseWench

*In fact, sometimes when I am trying to go to facebook, I will inadvertently go to FL!