Just About Ready for Nursery School Yup, as of the time of writing, I have been a member for almost precisely 4 years.
I sort of forgot my last birthday here and I think I didn't even notice my second, so I wanted to say something profound and important for this birthday, but I kept coming up short.
So, I think I will analyse and see what I can come up with.

Statistics Time! We all love statistics, and every good analysis needs statistics, and lots of them.

At the time of writing I have just short of 22,650 page views, which increase at a rate of a whole 15.5 views per day, I have 12,971 forum posts 1,970 comments and 273 favourites, I have 162 watchers and I watch 112 deviants.
And, in total, I have 101 deviations + two scraps.

Between this and my last birthday, I have gained some 4,000 forum posts and about 10,000 page views (that's a guess though it's likely more).

The Profound Bit Between this and my last birthday, I have gone from being a subscriber and beta tester to an MN@, probably my biggest change yet.
Over my 'deviant life' I have gone through ~,*,;,=,@ symbol variations.

Four years is a very long time, particularly in internetland, where most things last weeks or months, and not years.

I came to deviantART to share my poetry (and I am very glad that most of you never got to see it :B), I stayed for the forums .
It may be sad that, in an art community, it has been the forums that have kept me here, but, this is, after all, a community, and the forums happen to be one of the integral parts of it (in my opinion, of course).

I have learned a great deal thanks to this site, I learned about photography and it was this website that pushed me in the right direction in website development.
It also allowed me a stable (and developed) platform on which to develop other aspects of myself, I am, for example, far more confident now than I was when I first joined (though, relatively, I am still very timid in 'real life').

As mentioned, I became an MN@ last year (August, to be precise), which has helped me appreciate the work done by those behind the scenes, as well as seeing what's next for the general population.
The MN@ had also given me a more or less formal introduction to dAmn, something which I had hardly touched before joining.

I keep on seeing, or hearing about those who want to/are leaving this site, and, to be honest, I can't understand why, this site has been of great benefit to me already, it will be interesting to see how far it will take me.

Not profound, I know, but, it'll have to do .