I Miss The Early Days of Social Media

If in 1998 you had told me that I would fondly look back on the screeching sound of dial-up internet, I would have laughed at you.

Okay, so maybe I don’t miss the sound. Or the length of time it often took to visit various web pages.

But man, those were the days.

Back then, if you wanted to talk about politics, you could frequent political-based chatrooms and message boards.

You could make an online friend who say, liked the same music as you did. Or movies. Or fashion.

Email was pretty much the main way people got messages back then, so you didn’t have to worry about things like checking multiple accounts for messages because you probably only had one email account.

I frequented several message boards throughout the years until MySpace finally got me in 2006. (I was a little late to the party.)

MySpace was immediately addicting.

I actually met my late husband on MySpace in April of 2006.

We wound up competing with each other over who could have the most friends. I think I was somewhere around 50k when I migrated over to Facebook.

I wasn’t planning to stick around on Facebook as I joined as a part of a virtual nurse-in to protest their stance at the time, on breastfeeding photos.

Facebook was lame compared to the customizable and vibrant MySpace, but alas, it soon reeled me in.