:'-D* I'm honored to be shared on your stream like this; there's
   intelligent, kind, interesting people out here in the world and
   yet, we're so often trapped in our communities, just due to a
   happenstance of our birth or migrations.. or when we are born.*
   But that's one of the things I love and always loved about the
   internet; the ability to find the people you wish you could have
   gone to school with, or lived next door to... somehow. I've been
   online since 1988; found Internet to be way better than 'real
   life" in that regard.* [for me, it was CB Radio before that...
   and before I discovered CB... I stayed behind my
   hook-up-to-the-TV computer and video games and socialized only
   when I had to... and before that... well, I did whatever family
   did. So for me, a world outside of family and school and books
   was extremely liberating... and I quickly made worldwide
   friends.* I find the G+ encapsulates my early experiences with
   BBS's, PC-Link and early Internet mailing lists better than
   other services like Facebook, or Myspace before it, etc.* Closer
   to Usenet,, just without the spamminess.