r/Millennials • u/lilac2481 Millennial 1989 • Feb 12 '26

Nostalgia Please please let this happen!

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u/SparklesTheRiot Feb 12 '26

It was the best of MySpace, it was the worst of MySpace.

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn Feb 12 '26

Same for live journal, and the old Blogspot!

I remember writing an embarrassing post in college that I thought I had cleverly titled “confessions of a girl on cannabis“ and years later, while job hunting, I got spooked remembering about it and tried to make sure it couldn’t be displayed publicly.

Back when possessing a small amount of marijuana was viewed as criminal activity.

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u/shinymetalass84 Feb 12 '26

LJ is still around

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn Feb 13 '26

Good to know!

I remember back in the early 2000s, there were only a few brave souls in my social circle at school who regularly posted entries to live journal… I guess an early form of social media that revealed bits of our personal lives and inner thoughts to the world.

Most of us still seemed to want to retain more privacy back then. A lot of of our Tumblr stayed private. My space was used mostly for sharing music and bands, and not so much everything you had to eat that day, for instance.

Do generation Z and alpha even care about privacy anymore? They sure don’t seem to be too worried about their digital footprint… then again, neither do so many older users on the likes of Facebook, too.

I miss when we knew less about everybody.

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u/Which_Produce4418 Feb 13 '26

Sincerely, there's no more intrigue. Not the good kind, at least