1.
Complaining about how you hated that TRL wouldn't play an entire music video (except for like the top three):
2.
Making a mix CD for your BFF or crush:
3.
Bragging about what movies you had on your Netflix DVD queue:
4.
Coming up with a clever and racy email address as your first "official" address:
5.
Taking a group selfie like this on a flip phone:
6.
Taking a mirror selfie like this — with the camera flash going off:
7.
Playing Cranium with your friends or family:
8.
Emailing your friends a link to a viral video you found funny — usually with the subject line, "Watch this video!":
9.
Making sure you had your digital camera so that you could document everything (and be able to share the photos with your friends later):
10.
Having a cool case for your camera:
11.
Also having a cool case for your iPod:
12.
Creating Sims characters based on your friends and crushes:
13.
Composing a text — that included everything you wanted to say — in 160 characters or fewer:
14.
Shutting your flip phone hard and getting that satisfying noise and the "BITCH, BYE" feeling inside:
15.
Wearing pants that were super long and dragged all over the ground:
16.
Going with your friends to Jamba Juice (or any juice bar) for smoothies:
17.
Calling any guy who was even vaguely into grooming a "metrosexual":
18.
Finding a good-quality MP3 (non-radio rip) of a new song you wanted on LimeWire:
19.
Buying studded belts from Hot Topic:
20.
Getting belt buckles with your name or phrases on it:
21.
Uploading photos and making a bunch of photo albums on Photobucket:
22.
Being obsessed with doing Sudoku puzzles:
23.
Destroying someone in a poking war:
24.
Using the Photo Booth Warhol-esque photo filter to death:
25.
Reading the LiveJournal of a classmate (whom you had a crush on or whom you hated) so that you could low-key snoop on their life:
26.
Hearing the squeaky-door-opening noise and seeing that your friend was logging on to AIM:
27.
Going to Subway and making sure you collected your Sub Club sticker:
28.
Getting free Pick of the Week cards from Starbucks:
29.
And finally, lying on Myspace and saying your age was 99 years old: