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Do you remember the days of Friday night MSN? You’d spend
all day at school with your friends and then as soon as you were home you’d log
onto the family computer, sit through that old dial up noise and log on to MSN
Messenger just so you could create a huge conversation where you and those
friends sat around sending each other smiley faces and slices of pizza.
Perhaps you had a more productive childhood than me and my
friends, but when I heard the news that MSN were putting an end to their Messenger,
I did feel the slight tinge of nostalgia for the days before Skype, but then I
remembered that nothing has changed…
The drama of the
webcam. What a nightmare. When you’ve got no plans for a whole day except
watch Masterchef and paint your nails, it’s an absolute disaster when you hear
the Skype noise coming from your computer: you’re not wearing any makeup. You
don’t want to appear vain, but your hair looks like it went through the car
wash backwards. “My webcam seems to be broken…”
The emoticon battle. This
one isn’t unique to the video messaging, Facebook chat is a culprit as well and
it can get out of hand. It starts with the cheeky :P, it turns into the XD and
it escalates to so much more. You can get dancing ninjas, the afore-mentioned
pizza and my favourite for Facebook, type in :putnam: and press enter. I KNOW.
The abbrevs. (Abbreviations
for those not in the loop) Most of them make sense, brb for ‘be right back’ lol
for ‘laugh out loud’ to everyone except my dad who stands by ‘love you lots’
even g2g as ‘got to go’ is acceptable. However, as tweenagers we took it too
far, starting with LMAO, then came the naughtier LMFAO and then the absolutely
ridiculous ROTFLMFAO. Just no.
The games-athon. I’m
pretty sure that I learnt how to play chess, checkers and battleships through
MSN. Unfortunately this one hasn’t survived the shift to Skype and sadly long
gone are the days of ‘waiting for player 2’...
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