Welcome to Gaia! ::

I made this new account today, although I'm not actually new, but in the process of arranging my settings etc to familiar comfy levels and wondering if I could access the event straight away (I can), I stopped by Welcome to Gaia to perhaps make this account's first post. However, I decided to do that here in good ol' GCD heart

I noticed a very significant number of "returning to Gaia" type threads in WtG. It seems like a lot of people are coming back.

What's drawing people back, do you think?
Is it that once a Gaian, always a Gaian?
Is it a drug that you can quit but never really leaves your system?
Or is it perhaps something that only occurs during events?
Is there just no place like home?
Is it a good sign?
Whaddya think?

EDIT:
Having read the replies to this topic, another question occurs to me.

Is there any other single site, of any kind (without necessarily naming them , don't want to embarrass anyone xd ), that you have spent as many years with as you have with Gaia, or that you have invested as much time in during your internet life?

Nostalgia may be a reason for a lot of users returning to this site as they probably remember spending their youth on here. Also, it is still the summer and kid's have a lot of time on their hands so they might end up anywhere on the internet out of boredom (thankfully it's here!)

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When you go away from Gaia for a while and do whatever you do with your life and your social internet consists of Tumblr, Twitter, FB, Reddit or whatever and then come back to Gaia, you realize what a really ODD site it is. Seriously, it's very peculiar, and unique. So many attempts have been made to create fantasy worlds, other avatar sites etc, and there are many social sites, and then waaaay out there floating in the middle of the net ocean is GaiaOnline, getting positively ancient in internet terms, still alive....

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.★. I'm also back once again, I think its the money I pumped into it a few years ago.. & i just can't let go!
Only to return and still be poor, was a classical joke! ツ <3
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Rest In Peace Mum
You Will Be Missed
ILoveYou
01-06-2010
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For me when I joined I was 13(200 cool and when I quit I was 14 (2010) just about 15. I am now 21(2015). I quit because a woman who was purely inlove with gaia had passed away and I didn't want to do anything that reminded me of her... Gaia is like Facebook, once you get some friends and like a few games, its home lol its too much fun to quit.