HSP Boston & New England Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary!

The Boston and New England HSP Group was initially created on September 18th, 2003... which means that today marks the group's 10th Anniversary.

In most contexts, ten years is not all that much, but in the context of a web group it is actually an extremely long time.

The group was somewhat inspired by the nation's first "regional" online group for HSPs, which was started six months earlier in the San Francisco Bay area (more of less the "birthplace" of the whole idea of highly sensitive persons), by someone who'd felt inspired after attending one of the periodic "HSP Gatherings" in that part of the country. Ten years later, the HSP Boston group remains the second oldest active "regional" HSP group in the US.

That said, we are still a pretty small group (just over 100 members), and our forum enjoys only a limited number of discussions. 100 people might sound like a lot when you're an HSP, but when compared to some of the HSP groups on sites like Facebook (with 5000+ members) it's still pretty small. But hopefully we will be able to change that, in the years ahead-- at least the "activity level" part.

The group admins have recently received announcements that YahooGroups (where we host our online discussions) is about to undergo a major "format change" and we're hopeful that it will be for the better. The only big concern is over whether Yahoo is going to start charging people to have groups, in which case we may have to either move the group to a different venue, or shut it down completely... as it is unlikely a group like ours would survive as a "paid membership" group.