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    5 days ago

    I didn’t use MySpace, but I would imagine people saw others as people posting stuff on a community board at that point. Instead of a detached voice inside their computer.

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      Yeah all my MySpace friends were people I made friends with on forum sites. And we were actually friends that actually spoke and messaged other. Novel concept for ‘social’ media, I know.

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        Tom was hangin out on yachts with all his bitches!

        …and by that I mean he had a few dogs who happened to be female.

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      I forget how the boards on Myspace worked, but they definitely were there as I remember chatting on them with other freshmen before moving in to college. One of the people even ended up being a close friend and eventual room mate, and this wasn’t a small school.

      Facebook started really taking off that fall of freshman year and I imagine most that socialization moved there by 07.