I was combing through my adoption information link list and the list for AAI caught my eye.
For many of us, we “began” online on MSN Groups..Adoption, Adoption Insights, Anti-Adoption Insights.
The first few years of my online existence were over at those places. They are where I learned to write. It’s where I learned…
I clicked it and the site was gone.
All MSN Groups closed in October.
That means AI and the old private group is gone too.
The places where countless hours of my life were spent, where irreplaceable conversations .. is just ..gone. And has been gone since October. Somehow, I had just always assumed, that it would all still be there…waiting. I feel like something has died. I feel horrible really.
Such endless wisdom, such eloquent pain, such sadness, such rage.. we hashed it out. There e was vicious name calling, yet the deepest sharings. The stories that were there. Pieces of human souls, the sufferings, the questions,….People who you hate, yet mostly, there were people that I loved, respected, looked up to, learned from..
It’s all gone. I could cry.
Hi (((Claude))),
I know. I feel the exact same way. I’ll never forget the first time I found those boards, I would just sit and cry for hours reading people’s deepest feelings and wisdom. It is truly what helped me begin to heal and become real. I wish we could somehow get them back, so as not to lose all those posts.
Hugs to you, Peach
I really owe a lot to the internet and groups and websites for helping me through the most traumatic time in my life. I barely understood what happened to me and it was these groups and orgs that gave me the support and the language to cope and understand. losing a child to adoption is a profound loss no matter the situation or cause. i’m sad that msn has decided to close the groups.we need as many sites and voices as possible.
I went looking for it a few weeks ago. I knew about the msn change over but still hoped it was not deleted. It was very sad to not be able to pull the group up.
I just wish I had known.. I suppose they alerted me, but that was such a long ago abandoned filled with spam email addy.. I would never, I didn’t see it…
I would have gone in and copied and pasted the thousands of posts and threads..I would have. It might have killed me, but I would have.
When I think of the threads when Jordon/Elena actually decided to keep Jazz instead of placing her…
The threads of finding Max…oh thank GOD I moved all our first conversations OFF there or they would have been lost too..
Some pieces of writings that I Knew were there, but thought of as “in the AAI filing cab”.. I mean, it’s been too long since I went over.. obviously.. but I would go and refrence at times.. when I knew I needed somthing.. I knew where things were..
It was my timeline!It’s where I was born.. really.. where it all began.
I wish I had not lost contact with so many of those good people. Where have they all gone???
Krista!
I can’t believe so many are just not “online” anymore! I know where a hadful are.. or rather WHO they really are on Facebook.. but there just doesn’t seem to be many of us all left…makes me sad everytime I think of it…
There is:
YummiAbby
Peach
Kali
Robin is still around of course..
SlyYoung
GypsyChris
Bry
and I’ll be damned if I can think of one more…