The days of early Facebook were truly a different time.
Social media was still pretty new, plus it was filled with teenagers. And...let's just say we didn't always show our best selves.
Here are 46 things we all (regrettably) did on Facebook in those early days that are just pure cringe to see now:
1. Remember how every status would automatically start with "[your name] is" so you'd end up having statuses like, "is vacation" or "is Taylor Swift concert!" Those grammatical errors haunt me.
2. And how we used to end every status with "textit<3" or "cellme"? Just...why?
4. Or just post a vague song lyric to describe your current mental state.
5. Or inside jokes that literally no one else would know, just so you sounded cool.
8. The amount that we used XD and =P truly disturbs me.
9. As does the fact that I used to post entire novels for people's birthdays on their walls.
11. Remember the people who would post "LMS" statuses?
12. It was always thrilling when people would offer to do "truth is"...and very cringey to actually get the reluctant "truth."
13. Remember those photos where you would tag your friends as different characters?
14. Although my worst nightmare was to be tagged in one of these:
15. Or, god forbid, a NOTE:
16. Especially if it was a poem:
17. I guess it was kind of nice to be tagged in stuff like this:
18. Or this, even though it's definitely cringey, looking back:
19. Or, even worse...post a picture of ourselves with a dramatic song lyric that did not apply to the photo:
20. Remember mirror selfies with the flash on?
21. Or the classic duck face and peace sign?
22. We got minion memes a bit later on:
24. Why did we feel the need to post quotes like this and tag our friends??
Save that for the group chat.
25. Or post pictures of words written in the sand?
26. Or spell out words with our hands?
27. Or make hearts with our hands?
28. Why did we like SO MANY random pages??
29. And create groups for everything — from school projects to concerts — but ESPECIALLY to collect numbers after losing our phones.
30. Nothing makes me cringe now like a Picnik-edited photo:
31. Except maybe photos from Photo Booth with filters so strong, you could barely see them:
32. Or the ones that distorted your face:
33. Did anyone else make endless FaceInHole pics, or was that just me??
34. Among my fondest Facebook memories are when people I didn't like got hacked, although the notifications with them selling shoes at discount prices were annoying:
35. Why did we think people wanted to see our feet?
36. Or our faces staring down at them in a circle?
37. Or us lying on the grass with friends?
38. And did we really think that these pages asking to bring back the old versions of Facebook would work?
39. I shudder to remember the time we all posted Disney characters as our profile pictures:
40. Remember getting into epic poke wars?
41. And all the memes about poke wars?
42. And uploading 80,000 blurry pictures after going to a concert?
43. I am saddened to see that the "most people will scroll past this" posts are still a staple among the older crowd on Facebook:
44. I really don't think anyone wanted to see the screenshots of the Skype sessions we were always posting:
45. Or of our high scores on games like Flappy Bird:
46. And finally, the thing we should all be most embarassed of...those chain statuses we would post so that Facebook "couldn't use our pictures":
