You shut the fuck up
wasn't 2007 the housing bubble recession
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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- October 2008. I remember exactly... because I had an economics professor in university who started her classes by writing the Dow Jones on the chalkboard. One day I came and I noted that the number had dropped significantly from the day before, she told me 'we haven't seen a drop that big since 1929'.
Yeah... and just 10 months prior I had another professor tell me that the economy was in such boom that it was making the post-WW2 economic boom look tame... yeah...
It was still under Bush II.
I remember it before election day. The drop in stock market prices. I know because I also remember a lot of people saying that Obama would never be president while people were still scrambling to make sense of the crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
Sorta began in 06, got bad, in 07, and peaked in 08.
I remember when "writing on a friend's wall" was literal. Every artistic friend, and even some non-artistic ones, I had, had a wall in their room everyone was allowed to write/draw on.
Ooh, I need to make one of those in my house. Both because it would be fun for friends and family (including the kid's friends and our nieces & nephews) and the regression back to analog would satisfy some little petty yet righteous part of my brain that makes me avoid Facebook.
just ten years each of which lasted 1.8 years
No, I think they were each a year except for 2020-21, which lasted for 10 years.
Hate to tell you, but that's closer to 20 years than it is 10.
I still think of SNES games as 10 years ago.
You spend half an hour going through your crush's pictures to see if anyone ever tagged them in anything from that party a few weeks ago that they didn't post about themselves which was weird because they almost always post at least a few pictures when they go out. You start building a web of everyone you know was there and friend requesting all of them, desperate to see if anyone posted pictures that might give you a hint... A mere glimpse into what Nancy was doing that night. Was she with Peter? Was she with Joe? Was she lying about going out? I bet it was Joe. That fucking douchebag.
You've gotten help since then...?
I deleted Facebook in like 2008
I was still using Myspace in 2007 for my musical project. I hated Facebook from the word go and only signed up when it was apparent Myspace was being abandoned by all the musicians and bands I networked with. I deleted my Facebook around Covid after I got tired of watching friends and family buy into conspiracy theories and conservative horse shit.
I hated Facebook, too. I did end up using it for a few years starting in 2015, but I actually regret doing that.
I liked MySpace. To me it was mainly a site to discover music. A lot switched to facebook around 2007. I never did and i don't regret it.
Every college aged white woman's drip from 2005 to 2012.
Just missing the PSL
And the North Face zip up.
When I was on facebook back then, I would see boomers making posts talking about the 1950s in the same way.
Remember drinking out of a hose? And openly hating black people?
The fuck are jeggings?
Leggings that look like jeans.
And how do you call jeans that look like leggings?
Leans obviously
I irrationally hate this word in so many ways I previously thought were foreign to me.
I'm happy I could be instrumental in exploring your full emotional range!
what about jeans that end up as leggings the lower you go?
Those were called Z cavariccis in the eighties.
One of God's many mistakes.
As a disciple of Sir Mix-A-Lot, I firmly disagree.
Exhibit A: Fuck around, 2007.
Exhibit B : Find out, 2025; just look at the current state of the world.
I got off facebook as soon as they asked me for IRL ID. The rest of the fuckheads should have done the same.
I haven't logged into my Facebook page in ages.
Life was not good. That's literally when most Americans started to melt their brains with social media and hyper individualism.
I am glad I am back to using mostly anonymous social media like lemmy. Fuck me I spent almost the first two decades of being online since the late 90s not revealing much about myself online to being suckered (like many people were) into being more open. Biggest fucking mistake I made online.
I really am kinda glad that the only ads I get now are for highly boring investments and insurance, meaning maybe my digital info footprint is not as big as it was and thus individualized ads aren't possible for me.
Melt where brains?
nah I hated Facebook, hard pass
Ok then, MySpace. And don't lie that you didn't copy and paste html code from a sketchy site just to post similarly cringe shit.
I never used my space but I thought those kinds of pages were neat
Needs a belt, sweater layer, and statement necklace.
OP is part of the problem. Feeding social media until it could become an unstoppable force.