Inspired by a comment in another thread, what was the path you took over your life, through the various online social media we’ve had?

By way of example, I started in Yahoo chatrooms, to a little bit of Myspace and private forums, to ICQ and IRC, to no online socials for awhile, to facebook, to 4chan, to reddit, ending up here on lemmy.

I’ve never used twitter, insta, tiktok, etc for any length of time.

If you’d like, your native language and a rough estimate of your age can be included for additional context.

  • binarytobis@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    When I was in school back in the early days, I tried typing a random “wherearemypants.com” and it led to this forum run by some random guy in Texas for him and his friends. I made an account and just insinuated myself into this group of adults, and honestly, it was the golden age of social media for me. Absolutely nothing was monetized, just people sharing links and chatting about stuff.

    Eventually he shut it down and I ended up on myspace>facebook>reddit>lemmy.

  • brap@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    Does talking to randoms on Kazaa count? Otherwise various forums, uboot, Facebook (shudder), Reddit, Lemmy.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      What counts and what doesn’t is pretty fuzzy. I’m just including everything that could reasonably fit, just to keep it simple.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 months ago

    I first got internet access in 2010. Phones didn’t exist in 2010s… well I didn’t have one at least.

    So I just… made a facebook to talk with school friends when I’m at home… I only ever had like single digits of people to add… like I didn’t speak much English and hard to connect with anyone that didn’t speak Cantonese (or Mandarin). (still typed English on the chat tho.

    Eventually I left nyc and I just deleted my facebook because I think I just didn’t feel close with them anymore.

    I don’t think I even ever “posted” much if at all… I just used it for facebook games, which I eventualy grew out off.

    Then I re-made an account to connect with someone back in nyc, then later I just feel like its too awkward to continue chatting since we havent talked for months/years (forgot how long) and I deleted it again after just exchanging a few “oh school in Philly is crazy lots of fights”.

    Then I spent some time on some game forums.

    Then I found reddit. I just scrolled through the top platforms and a pseudo-anonymous platform is exactly what I wanted… being an introvert.

    I mostly scrolled, never posted much. Didn’t have an account most of the time, only occasionally made throwaways to comment then nuke it in a month or so… don’t even remember any of the usernames I used.

    Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked on June 12, 2023

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    BBS with FidoNet. Then Usenet and gopher before the web was invented. After that it was IRC, then forums.

  • dwemthy@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    AIM IRC MSN chat rooms TOTSE Livejournal MySpace (barely) Facebook (barely) 4chan Reddit Twitter Mastodon Lemmy

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Windows Messenger, Facebook, a small SNES forum, Tumblr and here. Never used twitter, instagram, tiktok, pinterest, etc. Those always gave me the laziness. Tumblr is a social media that I always want to go back, I spend the main time of my teens and early 20s there.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago
    • CompuServe Chat
    • Dialup Bulletin Board
    • USENET
    • Facebook
    • Reddit
    • Lemmy

    Facebook was a horrible mistake. I jumped off when I realized I didn’t want to associate with the people there.

    Jumped off Reddit when my app was blocked.

    Edit: mid-50’s English speaker (well, American English, if that still counts), also remembered that there was a dialup bulletin board back in the day.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
    2·
    9 months ago

    In order: IRC (very briefly), MSN Messenger, Ultimate-Guitar forums, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy.

    MSN and U-G forums was peak internet era for me.

    Deleted my FB account in 2017, migrated to Lemmy with the mass Reddit exodus when they fucked with the API. Permanently deleted my account that day.

  • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    MSN messenger
    Independent forums (like Invisonfree)
    Bebo
    Facebook
    Reddit
    Discord
    Matrix
    Lemmy
    Instagram (originally just for a friend to sell me stuff but I now have some more friends and communities on this)
    Tiktok (only used for a friend to send me things she likes)