For my part, I have creating a Star Wars file with many ranked pictures (wallpapers, vehicles>X-wing,Arc-170..., characters>Yoda,Obi-Wan Kenobi...), a sort of encyclopedia, when I looked for Padmé pictures on the web. I came across on Fanpop where it was a big gallery of my favorite character! I saw that it was a website for fans of everything and signed in. Now I'm here :)
I was looking at stuff on the internet for Star Wars and stumbled onto the Fanpop site and decided to check it out. The first club I joined was the Anakin Skywalker one and also the Pirates of the Caribbean one.
Mine is like yours Red-5. I was searching on google for pictures of Anakin and Padme, for my vast collection ;), and I saw that there was a whole club for them! So I wanted to add my pictures and quiz questions so I joined and am so glad I did! :)
For the past 3 years or so, while searching for this-or-that, something from the FanPop site would come up--usually near the top of the search results. I always ignored the site because I was only interested in the image that the Google search provided.
It wasn't until April of this year that I wanted to discover what I was missing out on, concerning community & networking sites. I've been addicted ever since...