68. MSN Memories- join me and cringe at all the silly things your teenage self used to do…

MSN Messenger was shut down a little while ago and though I hadn’t used it in a long time, I felt this huge pang in my stomach at the thought of it being gone. From the age of 13 to about 19, it was a huge part of my life (in both a good and bad way). I killed so much time on it but some of the conversations I had on it honestly changed my life.

As a tribute, I thought I’d share some of the ridiculous stuff that went down on MSN. I didn’t do all of these things (though I did do a lot of them and for that I hang my head in shame) but I know that they were all common practice. So sit back, get comfy and get ready to cringe at all the silly things your teenage self used to do.

1. Offline messaging in stealth mode so you could talk exclusively to your favourite people
2. Going to school and hanging out with your friends and then running home and chatting online to the same friends about what happened in school
3. Print screening the convo to show your friend to ‘interpret’
4. Copying and pasting a convo in real time to your best friend so they could tell you how to reply
5. Getting into a fight with someone online and adding your friends to the convo as ‘back up’
6. That one friend that kept sending nudges and winks
7. That friend that came online but always had ‘don’t talk to me’ in their screen name
8. That one random person who was always online even at 5am
9. That annoying person who aaalwayssss typedddd liiikeeee thisss
10. xoxo_princess_fairy_92_xoxo@hotmail.com  Enough said.
11. Asking your friend if someone else was online to check if they had blocked you
12. The awkward moment when you were added to a group conversation with someone you had blocked…who then knew you had blocked them…woops
13. Hearing the same story from two different perspectives at the same time and just sitting there thinking ‘why don’t they just speak to each other?’
14. Being so popular that you could count to 10 and be confident someone would say ‘hi’
15. Typing ‘brb loo’ when actually you just need time to come up with a decent reply
16. Telling someone ‘brb’ and never returning
17. Telling someone that you had to go when in actual fact you had nothing to say. Close window and block for good measure.
18. That feeling you got when your crush signed in
19. Signing in and out so your crush noticed you
20. Seeing your crush online and signing in but making sure to wait 10 minutes before you said anything so they didn’t think you were a psycho
21. The fury when said crush disappears during the aforementioned 10 minutes
22. Late night conversations with your crush- oi oi!
23. Your crush’s status is busy- Argh should I start a convo or not?
24. Extending the goodbyes because you didn’t want the conversation to end
25. When asking for someone’s addy was the equivalent of 079-ing someone
26. Playing 21 truths and ‘would you rather…’
27. Boss protecting whenever your parents entered the room (good old shift-space)
28. Mother walks into your room … ‘so what was the History homework?’
29. Sending 20 full stops to clear the screen
30. Knowing something serious is about to be said if you see someone typing for a long time
31. –so and so is typing- This continues for 5 minutes during which time you were expecting a major revelation and then they say ‘sorry hit the spacebar’
32. Becoming a fearless bastard online and saying everything you never had the nerve to say in person
33. Noticing that the same people who pretended not to know you at school were happy to spill their guts online
34. Being annoyed because the person you were talking to took longer than 10 seconds to reply
35. Texting someone to come on msn
36. Having your screen name ιи тнιѕ fσит with lots of crap like ¸٠·΄°˚o¸٠·΄°˚ next to it
37. Reserving your personal message for song lyrics
38. Judging people on their MSN font and colour, and being super pissed if someone copied yours
39. Matching your font colour with your display picture
40. Starting your screen name with a symbol so that you were at the top of everyone’s contact list
41. All your conversations looked like this: ‘i was like’ ‘and then she was like’ ‘to which i was like’ ‘and then she had the nerve to be like’
42. ‘hi’ ‘how r u?’ ‘fine. u?’ ‘good’    End convo.
43. ‘I’ll tell you later on msn.’
44. ‘what are you doing?’ ‘talking to you.’
45. ‘why do I always have to start the convo?’
46. – A is typing- –B starts typing- –A stops typing- –B stops typing-
47. ‘you first’ ‘no you go first’
48. Accidentally typing in the wrong conversation window
49. Said something you wish you hadn’t –‘oops wrong convo’ saves the day!
50. Lol, brb, g2g, l8rz, kk- the birth of chat speak
51. Having entire conversations in emoticons
52. Destroying your opponents at minesweeper flags
53. Knowing what (8), (*), (Y), (N) meant
54. Having an entire emoticon collection of dancing fruit 
55. Knowing all the shortcuts to your amazing emoticon collection
56. The notable increase in typing speed from using MSN
57. Using the draw facility to draw pointless pictures or in my case explain integration in an emergency
58. When sending one song took 10 minutes
59. Synchronising MSN with Windows Media Player so everyone could see what you were listening to and bask in your amazing music taste

Have I missed anything?

Over and Out!