What was your first experience of social media?

[RosieLemonade]

Mine was on my 18th birthday starting a twitter account on my new laptop! Seems so old fashioned to read tweets on a laptop now. Britney Spears was the first person I followed.

How old are you? I remember the old 'chat rooms' where you just logged on and spoke to strangers on any subject and I remember when Facebook was invitation only. I got mine and thought it was brilliant!

MSN, MySpace, friends reunited

1997 chat rooms.
Then Friends Reunited.

I remember joining Friend Reunited in 2001. Once the novelty wore off, I sort of forgot about it. I never did join Facebook, Instagram etc etc and I have no plans to.

I’m 23 so grew up with social media

I remember MySpace and msn being a thing amongst older people when I was in year 7/aged 10. However I think the main social media I used was BBM/WhatsApp then Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat. I have had my Instagram account for almost 10 years lol

Facebook was popular when I was in school, but (no offence) this was back when mainly young people used it. No one I know uses it now, it’s essentially social media for older adults.

Good gracious.

1988, my account on VAX at York. I was JHW1, but I edited my logon details so that in a list of users I showed up as a description of my specific (ridiculous non-)fashion choice.

Most of the people I chatted to were already friends, but we did encounter the ten-year-old son of one of the lecturers - and someone who was already chatting to him, can't remember who now.

Mildly regret being too busy to have been on Jorvik a year or so later.

Finally got a home internet link and officially joined afp in 1998.

I still read tweets on a laptop

ICQ was the first thing i ever chatted to strangers on.

Ah, ICQ! I can hear the message notification now! One of my school friends met her first boyfriend on there, 21 years later they're still together.

Piczo, MSN, Bebo, MySpace (I miss MySpace!).
Agree with PP with fb. I'm 28 and no one I know uses fb anymore unless they're a business.

I used to arrange to meet friends in chat rooms (UKchat) because it cost 10p per text message! We must have been around 14 in 2001.

usenet?
So that would be 1987

Define what is social media

Yahoo chat and mIRC.

1988, my account on VAX at York.

Blimey, I'm not too different to that. I was at Plymouth and we had a PDP-11 in the basement and loads of us used to chat to others over JANET.

Yahoo chat rooms (think it was yahoo) in the late 90s.
Friends reunited about the same era.

Mumsnet in about 2001/2002.

Didn’t get Facebook until about 2006. Have a vague recollection of msn before Facebook but don’t think I really used it.

WWF (as in wrestling not pandas) chat room on their website when I was 11. We used to type angry South Park quotes at middle aged men who may have worked out we were 11.

MSN talking to other kids at school.

Various chat rooms talking to strangers. There was one that had graphics of actual rooms, you had a little pixellated person that you walked around into the different rooms and talked to other little pixellated people.

Mumsnet here as well - late 2000 ... in fact that's still only my 'real' social media use , I've never had a FB account or used Twitter, Instagram etc.

Does a telex machine in the early 1980s count ?

Friends Reunited.

And MN in 2003.