To ask what the strangest thing you did online as a teenager was?

Yes! I've never told anyone this but at one point I pretended to be a vampire 😆 I was in some sort of chatroom or forum related to vampires and I got talking to a bloke who wanted to find a vampire to 'turn' him. We used to message back and forth all the time, and he'd listen to my backstory of how I became a vampire (having been attacked one night by an old vampire on my way home haha). I don't know if he genuinely believed me or if he was just enjoying the pretence like I was, but eventually we just naturally dropped it and started talking about normal life. Eventually he got a girlfriend and his messages tapered off to nothing. So cringeyworthy looking back but I was a bit of an odd teen!

Oh Yes!! Me too!😂

Teenager in the mid ‘00s. I actuallly get scared thinking back to what I got up to online in that time. I spent hours and hours on Habbo Hotel, late into the night. And spent so much money on Habbo coins - my Dad paid my phone bill and you used to be able to just text a number and then you’d be billed for the coins in your phone bill, no idea why my Dad kept paying it!

I had a long term Habbo boyfriend. I never knew his real name but it felt so real - we’d have “cyber sex” and chat for hours. One day he just disappeared, I was absolutely heartbroken.

I also used to give out my email address, chat to random boys on MSN who all were apparently my own age but looking back were probably paedophiles and go on webcam in underwear. Strangely, non of them ever wanted to show their faces in camera!

Once my email address got hacked - someone asked me the name of my pet which was my secret answer on my email account, I obviously told them as seemed so innocent and then lost access my email address. Not really sure what the point of hacking a 13 year olds email was but it terrified me and I was a lot more cautious after that so probably a good thing in the end!

So many memories unlocked. The human race discovers the Internet and before you know it men use it for sending cock pics. Weirdos.

Fucking hell. I've only just realised I've been on the internet for 21 years. Shit, I feel old. I was already married before then. So, no teenage misadventures for me.

We had no Internet when I was a teenager. I do remember winning a child's cook book from Look In nafazkbe and £5 from the crossword competition in Blue Jeans magazine. Both magazines published my real name & address in the list of winners!

My teen cringe internet story (ok 20yo at the time, not quite teen)

I worked for a popular cable company at the time on their customer service desk. A few months in I felt I knew more than enough to be helpful on random internet forums so I'd try and help folk on there who were grumbling about the company.
I was sure I was being really helpful and got into some pretty big debates with people online about all things to do with said cable company. I also happily informed anyone who'd listen that I worked for the company so I knew best. Anyway it all came to a messy end. A guy I worked with started randomly saying terms or phrases I knew I'd used on the forums. He started throwing my username into conversations in work and would watch me to see if I reacted.
Next thing I knew I was asked to come into meeting with the call centre manager and someone from high up in the company. They confronted me with my posts from the forums and said they knew it was me based on the posts all being from times I wasn't in work- and basically told me I was being unprofessional and being a bad example (which was fair tbh). They said they could track the IP address if I refused to confess- still no idea if they actually could.
You'd think it would end there but no! I instantly invented a younger sibling who I insisted must have been pretending to be me and promised the boss that I'd have a word with said sibling! They clearly knew I was talking nonsense but kindly humoured me I left very soon after and never told anyone any of this until now. It still makes me cringe over twenty years later.

Oh and not online related, but we used to go into phone boxes and prank call random 0800 numbers. Fun times

Me and my friend used to 'hack' various ex boyfriends' MSN accounts. I don't think we did anything too sinister. I rember changing the status of my ex boyfriends to 'by the way everyone I'm now gay'. We were so mature 🙄

Netmums? I remember tickers on there and the website was quite pink from memory. Lots of fakes on it but also lots of very real people too.

Rotten.com for me too. Many of those images are burned into my brain. I don't know how I used to be able to stomach that stuff. I couldn't now.

Prior to the internet days, my friends and I used to phone up the operator and ask to be put through to our "cousin" whose phone number we had lost. We had many famous cousins. 😅 It never worked.

I used to drink most nights and send nudes. I was just looking for validation that I was pretty because I had body dysmorphia. My home life was happy but with undiagnosed ADHD I literally hated my appearance, I mean I thought i was disgusting. I would never have gotten naked irl. Even now I struggle with that and I'm married 10 years.

I still cringe when I think there could be pictures out there. Thankfully I never showed my face. I feel really sad for that girl.

@DonningMyHardHat

Also I have a handful of friends who I met through a self-harm recovery forum at 15/16.

Recoveryourlife forum?
That site may have quietly saved my life.

oh wow small world!

lol I met my DH in an AOL chat room. Quizzers! Married nearly 21 years now.

We used to ring the operator on 100 and ask to speak to Busby. I cringe now.

I used to listen to exactly the same thing with headphones so that my parents couldn’t hear it. I think all my sex and relationship knowledge is thanks to that radio show.

To do anything at all online as a teenager I would have had to time-travel about 20 years!

Was it Essential Baby @Username73638?

That sounds pretty harmless to me, you didn't cause trouble or insult anyone. It was good fun! There was no internet when I was a child and teenager but I used to make up different identities for, and stories about, myself - far away from home of course. It was escapism. Some of them were quite good! You were extremely clever aged 12-13 to fake such a convincing id.

There is plenty of that on facebook; for some it's a way of being really private, they cannot be identified but of course there are loads of scammers which is awful. However you were no scammer, just fantasising.

Pro Ana websites - so weird. Thin commandments, 'Thinspiration', 'What did you eat today' threads, 'guess how much I weigh' threads with young people in their underwear, 'Accountability' threads to be as eating disordered as possible. Self harm picture threads. Endless tips and tricks threads. The most horrendous environment for mentally ill teenagers but also a great community. I went on several meet ups. Not healthy ones but they were fun!

The worst of them them was called PASS - Pro Ana Suicide Society! But I was on several.

Also - Live Journal. Wtf was that - keeping your private diary online for strangers (and worse - friends!) to read. Eek, I want to die just thinking about it.

Talking to people in the next room to me on msn messenger.

Mid 2000s...I had a completely fake persona on a popular hip-hop forum that I kept up for years. I can still recall many of the other regular posters usernames etc. Definitely was a form of escapism for me.

I became a teenager in 1979.

My sister and I met an older boy from a different school on the way home once and he tagged along back to ours. He was quite annoying and we deduced that he wasn't the brightest spark!

My sister and I were quite awful and showed him a patch of ground where we got a bottle of something from the tack room and put it in a watering can and watered the ground and told him that tomorrow there would be fully grown vegetables as the stuff we used was a special quick growing formula.

The next day he followed us from school again and we showed him the earth which we had carefully planted fully grown carrots that morning!

He was so impressed he gave us a £5 note and we poured some of the 'magic' quick growing stuff into a bottle and gave it to him to take home!

Weirdly, we never saw him again!

Started a roleplaying community in which about ten other girls around 16-22 wrote journal entries as gay Edwardian men. 😂

@fashionqueen0123 I used to listen to Jeremy Kyle too, think he called himself Jezza though! Think it was called the 'Late night love affair?'