For many years, I lived in San Francisco.  One of the wonderful things about living there, was the ability to meet and grow close with people of different cultures and different nationalities. 

After 15 years, I moved back home to be closer with my parents.  Both were elderly and I had a 5 year old daughter, too.  This was before the birth of the internet.  I desperately missed my friends and moving back to a small, rural community was culture shock ! It seemed like everyone was "freeze dried" in the 1970's when it was 1990!  Any thing "different" was suspect.

My first experiences with friendship sites was fairly shocking.  It was more like a dating site, and things were presented to me for shock value only.  When i stumbled upon  FX,  I assumed it would be more of the same.  My reasoning for joining was i prayed somewhere would be a pure friendship site which would feed my soul and offer friendships from around the world.  Indeed, EVERYTHING presented at FX was the truth.  Administration would not tolerate pornography, scams or even SPAMMING.  I

You hear different groups advertise: we are " family "...we will watch over you and protect you.  Well, FX really does this.  I have a cyber family: a virtual grandpaw (mine both died before I was born), a younger brother and sister (I am a single child) and even a daughter or two.  I watch them and their families and their pets like they were my family. I have experienced closeness and family and much laughter at FX.