What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
I had been lurking for five years or so, meaning to register at one point, kicking myself for the times when registration was open for brief periods during the day and I missed them, until the boyfriend surprised me with the gift of a MeFi account.
And that, as they say, is that.
