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Dailybooth: How It Changed My Life and Why I Decided To Leave

I joined Dailybooth three years ago as a very different person. I was almost a freshman in high school, insecure, lonely, and looking for something that made me feel complete. When I found Dailybooth, I found not only a solution to all of these problems but a home and a place I could go when I needed to be loved.

I've always been a weird girl. I was constantly made fun of growing up, found myself without friends or companions, without a place that I fit in. And through the course of time that I spent on here, I found so many other people like me. Awkward kids that couldn't find a home in their real lives, closeted gay boys that just wanted to find themselves, girls that wanted to be known for something other than the diseases they suffered from, and various other types of teenagers that just needed a safe place away from high school. So we found eachother. We Skyped and we Tiny-chatted and we fell in love and in friendship and we connected in a way we hadn't in our "real lives". It became a joke - that we were real life friends as much as we were internet friends.

I grew up on Dailybooth. I learned how to be loved by someone that couldn't touch me. I learned how to be classy and how to be smart. I learned what it means to have a true conversation with someone. I learned kindness and passion and all the things I couldn't learn in real life because no one would let me. And I learned to let go.

So, here I am, letting go. I'm almost a senior in high school now, still young, with a real life I need to lead. Yes, I've drifted from my "forever" internet friends, but that's because we all found people to accept us in our real lives. And I'm thankful for all of them, and for Dailybooth, because without them and this site I wouldn't have made it through.

I'll miss what it once was. And I'll always remember who and what made me who I am on here.

Thank you everyone.
(Especially @jon, for making a home for the weirdos.)
Goodbye.