Its 2005 and...

See I used to bring all 100+ of my burned CDs with me to school to play on my walkman but they got stolen during gym somehow.

I don't know where I'm going with this, just reminiscing which this whole site has been making me do. 

I've seen a lot of kids today wanting to know what it was like back then. I've noticed a bit of romanticizing of the mid 00s and I just want everyone to know...don't glamorize any point in history. It's never a good idea. Take the good, learn from the bad. Listen to the stories of your elder Emos and Scene kids but don't take it too seriously.

Am I perpetually stuck in 2008? Yes. Do I love the music from the 00s? Yes. Do I miss how the internet used to be? Hell yes. But that doesn't mean everything was amazing. We, millennials and Gen X, formed the internet through myspace, the 1000000s of private forums, ebaums world, beginning youtube days, AIM, yahoo messenger, MSN, ICQ, neopets, you name it.

(potential TW around self harm/predators/EDs)
But I also remember having to make safety checks with my friends as we met our myspace boyfriends/girlfriends for the first time not knowing if it was some 30+ dude. Not all of us survived that.
No one told us about groomers and predators on the internet and how they showed themselves. Stranger danger was huge with our parents but they had no idea how to educate us of the ways of internet safety, we had to figure it out on our own. The term "grooming" was not used. We didn't learn about it until it was too late.

We were preyed upon, groomed, depressed, self harming, with eating disorders and had the internet to talk to each other and give each other tips on how to hide the signs and the adults may have thought they knew how to handle it..but they had no idea. They didnt fully understand the internet.  

So please, even though 00s FUCKING RULED, dont glamorize it. Don't romanticize it. Many of us didnt survive the internet...and those of us who did got fucked up 4LYF.