Ugh I was so ****ing obsessed with that site.
I remember in the earlier years it was really easy for user-run shops to set up password phising schemes where they made it look like Neopets logged you out (I was like 10 okay). Someone got me without me realizing it, and a week later I came back from vacation and I was BANNED cause they went on the forums and used inappropriate language under my username
I was so pissed, I had all my pets painted and everything... I made a new account after that but it was never quite the same
My very first online community was Gaia Online though, I joined back in 2003 when I was 9
Probably should not have been on there that young...