Deena's Blog Challenge or How I ended up on Multiply

By the spring of 2004, I finally realized that one could get a Yahoo e-mail account without actually having to own a computer. So from August of that year until a year later, I could only use the computers in the library. This limited my use of computers to a great extent, but at least it was better than nothing.

A year later, I found out that my brother had a spare computer in his basement in Toronto, and this computer was eventually brought to me in Montreal, and connected to the Internet in late July 2005.

In September 2005, I found out that a Pagan online study group, Blackcauldron, was going to be starting soon, so I joined, not even sure if I would have the time for it. That is how I met Karen, who was leading the group.

A few months afterwards, I found out that Karen had a blog on Yahoo 360, so I started to follow that blog.

Around December 2005, Karen's blog went completely private (so that only she could read it). I missed reading this blog so much that I ended up starting my own Yahoo 360 page. I was quite active in 360 for close to two years.

Around October 2007, I began to hear from many sources that Yahoo was planning to discontinue 360. I started to tell everyone I knew about this.

More and more rumours began to circulate about possible effects from the impending closure of 360.

I had already started a Multiply page in the spring of 2007. So when a lot of people began to move from Yahoo to Multiply, I had already a back-up site.

Around this period, I mentioned to Karen that 360 was about to close. Karen investigated, and decided to switch to Multiply, along with a lot of her friends.

And thus, this group got formed.