a regular day in 2008

I was in elementary school at the time, before Facebook caught on, and when Myspace was the "it girl." I didn't know about Myspace until my friend signed me up for Facebook, and my friends were either criticizing Facebook for its heavy limitations or appreciating the new layout or concept. 

For me, though, my everyday life revolved around going to school, coming home for a late lunch, and then hopping onto MSN or Yahoo! Messenger. Whenever I would travel anywhere, and my friends were from other countries, I would ask, "Do you have MSN or Yahoo?"

Whoever logged on, I would message, and I would hop into chat rooms. I look back at that now, and that was quite reckless. Then I would open YouTube to look for new music to add to my iPod Touch. I remember clearly asking my dad for a classic, but oh well. Oh yeah! Can't forget about the occasional Tumblr fix.

After surfing the web, I would open iTunes, connect my iPod, drag and drop my songs, rename them, and add album covers, then disconnect. 

For movies or TV shows, well... I, of course, watched them on legal websites.

I did have a phone, of course, but I never got a flip phone. I had a glorious Samsung L760, which I typically broke because I couldn't stop enjoying sliding it open.

That was my life. Sleep, wake up, repeat. 

Let's talk about now. Our phones became the typical standard-looking ones. Companies stopped competing in designing unique anything. Everything became a subscription, and music is a copy-and-paste of one another. Some of us can't live without our social media platforms, our reels and TikToks. When I realized how crowded my phone started to look, I called it quits. I deleted everything (only the apps, not the accounts). Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, TikTok, Twitter, Threads, Pinterest, Facebook Messenger. Don't get me started on streaming platforms. I unsubbed from Netflix, Prime, and Paramount+ (other people out there are subscribed to more than that).

But through Threads, I found out about Spacehey. Which led me here. Made the account a year ago, thought it was a dead platform, only to realize in these past couple of days, "wait... wasn't social media back in the day like that anyway?" So here I am, on Spacehey, learning how to (kind of) code so I can make my profile look cool. I want to show it off, but I want to gatekeep it. I visit other people's profiles on here and holy moly, y'all are creative. 

Anyway, yeah. That's a day in 2008! Thank you for reading!

(all the images above are sourced from the internet)