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by noblethrasher 4837 days ago
I wasn't exaggerating when I said that meeting people was "effortless" - they came to me.

Back then, people would look for interesting profiles on Yahoo's proto-social-networking site at profiles.yahoo.com and then send that person a message on Yahoo Messenger... this was before the bot infestation. I developed several friendships that started as random IM messages.