No matter how perfect our lives may be right now in our 20's, we’re always going to miss the good old days of AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace. Quite possibly the ~*BeSt DaYs Of OuR LiVeS.*~
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
Remember when your screen name was a variation of "xoQTpie101xo?" Or when you would let everyone know who you were friends with by listing all of their initials in your AIM profile? And, if you had time, you would write out individual shout-outs to them, complete with inside jokes and emoticons. Remember when this was your away message: "homework.dinner.basketball game. ~LeAvE oNe~"? There was also that one time we used our "Buddy Profiles" to showcase really dramatic quotes about life and love, because we were convinced that we knew everything about emotions in junior high.
AIM was a staple of our generation throughout the early 2000s. In those days, nothing else mattered besides the color and type of font you typed with and the number of people on your Buddy List.
MySpace
We upgraded from listing our best friends’ initials in our profiles to actually listing them on our “Top 8” on MySpace. That way, whenever you got in a fight with one of them or just decided to stop liking one of them one day, you could just move them down two spots on your Top Friends and show them a lesson.
And then there was the bulletin board where we all used to post 30-question surveys about our crushes, hoping they would read ours and make a move. Or we’d post a very short bulletin outlining our plans for the super fun weekend we were about to have: “Doing some homeworkkk, eatingg dinner, getting readyy, then moviesss with my bffs Emilyy and Megannn!! Sooo excited! ~*txt it*~”
Also, we must never forget about the songs we could play on our personal profiles. All of the Fall Out Boy and All Time Low really showed people what tormented souls we were at age 13.
The drama
Granted, the drama wasn’t serious, but that’s what we miss about it. The worst of your worries was that someone had a crush on the same person you did. Or you couldn’t figure out why your best friend moved you from number two to number four on her Top Friends. The most trivial problem could signal the end of the world for our teenage selves, but we all know that we would give just about anything to have those problems now. Because now, we have to deal with paying bills, studying for midterms that determine the fate of our GPAs, applying and interviewing for internships, maintaining something resembling a social life and figuring out what we’re going to do with the rest of our lives. No pressure.
