When I was your age...

For the longest time I was uninterested in social networking via technology that went beyond the phone. I was this way for two reasons. One, I was never really allowed on the computer unless it was for school work and two, everyone else was doing it (it being myspacing, facebooking, and newest, twittering) and I wasn't going to ride the wave.

Then I quickly learned that it was a great way to keep in touch with friends I had moved away from and set everything up. I hardly use myspace any more, but no one does really. It has sentimental value though, and I'll probably keep it forever. Facebook is my favorite way to creep people and twitter is fun, although frequently obnoxious. You can use it from your phone, and the logo is a bird, so twitter gets bonus points.

The Twitter program works like so: you create an account and then via your computer or cellular device you can update your status and let everyone who fallows you know whats going on all the time. Its like facebook but the status part only. Then it gets complicated. You can choose to have your post updated to facebook by doing this action- "status update here #fb". the '#' is called a hash. The hash is basically an explanation of why you're posting what you're posting. When updating your twitters, you can put a hash after anything. If its the trend of the day, which you would know by Twitters homepage, its linked to a page where the same hashed twitters everyone everywhere including people you don't follow go.

For example, yesterdays trend was #wheniwasafreshman. Which was ironic to me because my little sister just had her 8th grade graduation and we had a long talk about high school and how I felt going in. Not only was it a blast to read, but it got me thinking. What was I like when I was a freshman? What was going on in the world? Here's what I dug up.

1. I was completely ignorant of how I acted around other people.
2. Kari was my best friend, along with Crystal Maddelina, Lora Short and Morgan Shaver.
3. I had no idea who I was and just wanted to fit in.
4. I was in drama, band, honors English, Intro to computers, physical science, some kind of math and history.
5. I would rush home to do my chores so I could watch Boy Meets World.
6. I went to my first concert: minus the bear, funeral for a friend, straylight run.
7. I loved books by Sarah Dessen.
8. I had no grasp on the way high school or the social ladder worked or how people kept up with it.
9. Jesse McCartney was a hottie.
10. Pirates of the Caribbean came out and I got my first actor crush. On a much older man. Mr. Jhonny Depp.
11. Jhonny Cash passed.
12. I bought two of my now favorite books at a yard sale for 25 cents each.
13. I had to see Finding Nemo.
14. I went to my first high school dance. with 7 of my closest friends.
15. I was a huge note passer.
16. My family was going through some major issues.
17. Rainy days were the norm, and they didn't stop us from riding bikes in front of the cute neighbors house.
18. I was a total brown noser, and I didn't even know what that ment or was.
19. I took AR way more seriously than anyone else.
20. I passed all four parts of the WASL with flying colors. only 8 people in my freshman class passed all four parts.
21. I learned what pot was, what cybering ment and how orange juice and vodka smelled.
22. I thought I was a tough guy because I liked Linkin Park.

Its hard to remember so far back. I feel old because I have to think so long before I even know what year I'm thinking of. They all kind of run together and become a blur of things I want to remember and things I wish I could have suppressed a little bit better. Somethings haven't changed. Kari is still one of my very best friends, and I keep in contact with two of the others. Jhonny Depp is the most attractive dirty man I have ever laid eyes on. I still listen to Linkin Park sometimes haha. These are all things I didn't mention to my sister.

I told her about how Seniors were kind of bullies when we lived in Granite so we had to watch out but she wouldn't have to worry about that. I told her you get no more slack from the parentals just because you were now a high schooler. I told her expectations from everyone change be it your teachers, our parents, her friends. I told her she could recreate herself and be whoever she wanted to be in high school because it was a brand new chapter in her life, and thats why she got a graduation from middle school. I hope all of the little in between things she can figure out for herself.

I realize I kind of jumped subjects here, and I apologize. I'm just a bit jumbled tonight I suppose (: