Earlier this week, I decided to log back in to my Whyville account that had not been used in a very long time. I logged in to find that I had quite a bit of clams; 2.5 million to be exact. I immediately thought about putting them back into a CD, which is what I have been doing for the past year or so, just letting my clams keep increasing, and then I realized that I had no use for any of the clams. I don't buy anything anymore and there is no point to me having millions of clams sitting around when there are Newbies on Whyville who have less than 100 clams. So I began to donate them, and doing so has opened up my eyes.
I started out by going to the popular places in Whyville, or rather the places that used to be popular; I found Whyville to be almost deserted compared to when I used to hang out here. I remember there always being people in so many different chat rooms, and now I can only find people at Beach South, Sunroof, and Woods. This is one thing that has changed, but I've also noticed another huge difference. I remember giving away clams before when I was more active, and almost everyone I gave them to would be grateful and happy to have clams. A few years ago, it was much harder to earn clams and people were happy to have anything they could get. There used to be this thing called "The Whyville Way" (as coined by Deriko) meaning that everyone was nice to each other. Whyville used to be such a great place to be, and so many of us followed this Whyville Way.
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