Oh! And, I've been using it since early 2005 and at that time *no one* in my fannish circles had even heard of it, much less started using it. It wasn't until my links started showing high enough numbers that they were being tagged by others that I realized I could actually *find fic* that way. But by that point I was so used to my solitary use it didn't actually occur to me that it might be a new fandom-social-tool.

I've actually spent a good portion of the day going "How did I MISS that?" Heh.

But I think part of it is that many of my closest fannish friends *still* don't use it. Despite the EVIDENCE, hello hundreds of links for certain fics! I still didn't actually pick up on the wide usage of it. I also tend to miss wank until it's long over...I'm kind of oblivious like that.