what app did you start your social media life on first?

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1. Long, long ago, there was a time before Apps. A time where one could wander the fields of LiveJournal and MySpace…

2. I had a personal blog on a local blogging platform in early 2000s, I guess that counts.

3. Xanga.

4. Facebook

5. Bebo.

6. RuneScape classic, if you count that

7. AIM, Yahoo chat….. I want to say there was a 3rd one too but can’t remember

8. MySpace and Bebo. I remember someone created fake accounts of me and my wife (then girlfriend) on Bebo. They were sitting having conversations with each other it was very strange. Still to this day have no idea who it was.

9. IRC

   How about you?

10. Deadjournal

    it was like Livejournal’s edgy goth twin brother

11. Xanga. Then MySpace.

12. Facebook

13. Aim, xanga, live journal, aol, MySpace lol

14. Facebook.

15. Hyves, still miss it a lot. Social media just hasn’t been the same since

16. Faysss Bukkk

17. Piczo

18. Xanga

19. Facebook!

20. Friendster

21. MySpace.

    Don’t think apps were a thing or existed during 2008-2010.

22. Not on app but yeah, Friendfinder and Myspace. I also used ibibo then, it was an amazing community where you could chat with random people without adding new friends.

23. MySpace, but I barely ever used it. So my first “real” social media account was with Facebook.

24. Message boards and MySpace. I’m old as fuck

25. AOL bulletin boards/chat rooms. MySpace soon after

    I have a shell of an IG account I barely use and hang out here at Reddit (when I should probably be working)

    … otherwise not big into SM these days

26. MySpace

27. Google plus

28. Xanga or MySpace probably

29. AIM. OG shit right there

30. Not really an app, but I didn’t Use any social media until Myspace came around

31. Club Penguin ?

32. AIM, GameFAQS & Myspace is where is all started for me.

33. Facebook.

    If I could do it again I wouldn’t go on any.

34. MySpace, then Bebo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Regret… Oh god, so much regret…

    …
    TikTok

35. Orkut

36. AIM, Yahoo IM, various forums for the subjects I was into

    I really miss forums

37. MeinVZ, then Facebook. Now Fediverse.

38. AOL and Prodigy.

39. First social media app was instagram. First social media was Facebook

40. Netlog