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    20 Struggles You Don't Miss From Your Middle School Social Life

    More than half of which can be attributed to AOL Instant Messenger. Or in 2005 speak: OMG AIM FML.

    1. Perfectly crafted Away Messages

    2. Even more perfectly crafted Profiles

    3. Decoding Acronyms

    4. MySpace

    5. Being "gangsta"

    6. Texts costed money to send AND receive.

    7. Your mom had to drive you everywhere.

    8. Abercrombie, Juicy, So Low, Lacoste, Tiffany, and the rest of the fashion advice we never should have taken from Marissa Cooper.

    9. Hanging out with your girlfriends = MacBook Photobooth

    10. Hanging out with your guy friends = YouTube videos

    11. Creating an acronym for your *very exclusive* group of friends

    12. Creating the illusion that you were busy and/or social

    13. Having major social drama that you're not even confident made any sense at the time

    14. Inside jokes were EVERYWHERE and EVERYTHING

    15. Exchanging email addresses on the last day of camp

    16. The pickings were slim

    17. The fact that all of this cyber flirting had to be done from your mom’s desktop computer

    18. Having the initials or name of your significant other in your AIM profile

    19. Your Xanga. So deep, so profound.

    20. Just getting comfortable in your own skin