@FrankRamblings I appreciate what you're saying here (I too came on here and knew nobody), but I guess I was lucky early on in that I found myself in a whirl of fountain-pen related conversations (which we seem to be a bit lacking in these days, though I confess I haven't looked up the emoji-topic for a while!) and got to know a few people that way. There are lots of people on here that I follow, and enjoy reading, but who wind up discussing things I don't understand, or am not interested in. If I don't have anything to offer on a conversation, I'll "listen" and maybe hop over to read their blog post, but I figure I'll catch them on another conversation at a later time... Also, I've noticed there's a heckuva-lot of tech conversation on here, and I wonder if because there is so much on that topic, that much of it gets lost in people's timelines. Smaller subjects (like fountain pens) have a smaller number of interested parties and so might garner more interaction...? (Not sure...)