Reactivating facebook and writing a post about it – so millennial – I own it. So for some context; I am 25 years old and I opened my facebook account in 2008 – when I was 17. So while that is relatively old in today’s era (I am looking at you, my young nieces and nephews with the latest Iphones and Ipads), I had it for a large chunk of time until I decided to deactivate it a few years ago. Why? My career wasn’t moving ahead, I was depressed and social media made it more so. It took some teeth clenching to reactivate the account even now but I got there in the end.

Now I took my sweet time scrolling through the pages and here are some observations and thoughts that occurred to me. Can you relate?

Here we go

• I talked like a fucking idiot
• Incredible narcissism on my part
• Most of the people on Facebook I couldn’t even stand
• Wondering how I had 160 friends when I struggle to upkeep a single relationship today
• Wait a second…am I old?
• Should I grow my hair back?
• Because most people have by now also deactivated their accounts, the conversations I had with them on the site makes it look like I am talking to myself
• I had completely different priorities (none)
• I’ve lost touch with so many

It gets worse

• Tried too hard to be philosophical when quoting rap lyrics
• I had longwinded conversations with people whose existence I don’t remember
• The people that mattered then are still in my life today
• I updated my statuses regardless of likes
• The same person liked my updates all the time – respect the loyalty
• I was called ‘smexcci bitch’ and I had nothing sarcastic to say about it
• I don’t think your body is equipped to cringe so often
• The only good thing facebook does is making you feel popular on your birthday
• So many people got married
• So many babies
• Why did I post this?
• And this?
• Or this?!
• 

Why God why?

• The dual life of having deep conversations with someone online and ignoring and getting ignored by them at school
• I didn’t realise I’ve met so many people in my life
• Spent a lot of time procrastinating and apparently had to let everyone know about it
• Some unfortunate situations of -not logging out of my account and having fart jokes written about me
• I think I was a hell of a lot more social back then.
• How did this lead to my reactivating facebook again?
• Btw what happened to myspace?
• Am I difficult to get on with now?
• Give me a break, I’m just stuck in my ways
• Club promoters were and still are annoying, online and face to face
• Apparently, I was an animal rights activist
• And a Harlem shake activist – remember that one?

I seriously suck

• For some reason, my friend decided to share parts of her coursework on my facebook wall
• I struggled with 500-word essays…what?
• I wrote eight status updates about going to Germany
• Reactivating facebook was  dumb idea
• I was having a hard time during results day ( no reminders needed for that one)
• I’ve had the same mobile number for at least 6 years!
• I thought I was funny, some things don’t change