Old vs. New. Part I

Some people might think teenagers today have it much better than we did, but I beg to differ. Therefore I'm going to write down the reasons for my opinion before all the years of alcohol consumption catches up to me and wipe out my memory completely.

Reason 1: We were able to learn htmls (even though it was kind of forced).

Back when I was a teenager, we didn't have twitter and facebook didn't get popular until I was already past the age of consent. First there was xanga, and along came myspace, which had more creepers than craigslist. Both sites required some knowledge of html if you wanted your home page to look cool, and the more codes you know, the better your page will be compared to your mortal enemy's. Xanga was at its peak when I was in middle school, pretty much everyone had one, including the ones who were still running on 56k or the ones who didn't even have internet at home and had to update theirs in the public library. We designed layouts and changed them regularly, and this helped a lot of us become photoshop/paintshop&html amateurs. In those days if you copied someone else's layout there was a possibility of cyber-beef, which results in a long list of your enemy's hateful friends who gave you 0 eprops + mindless threats.

Then there was myspace.

I think one of the major advantages myspace had over xanga was the amount of photos you were able to upload onto your profile. You weren't able to do that on xanga unless you had Xanga Premium or an external picture hosting site. A classic myspace user is someone who uploads a shitload of pictures of themselves, usually taken in various myspace angles, and probably in the bathroom, for all of their myspace friends to leave mind deceiving fake complimenting comments on. If you are naturally attractive, you might start believing that you are drop dead gorgeous. For the unlucky ones who were born with the faces only a mother would love, they were able to reboot by becoming "emo", which was just the excuse for now sporting hair that covered up half of their face (and also heavy sharpee makeup). Overall, myspace is great tool for gaining self-esteem.

However, in order to use both sites efficiently, you were required to be a html pro (in teen standards). Because chances are, nobody would want you to be your friend if your profile was in default layout.

Oh yea, let's not forget how many relationships and friendships were broken up by that little box called top 8 friends on myspace. Tears and blood were shed over those spots..Same thing goes for xanga eprops, I'm sure you've got into fights with your best friend numerous times because they refused to give you your daily props.

It's okay, I got you.