At What Age Did You Start Using Social Media?

15 give or take. I began using a MySpace clone called Hi5, then MSN messenger and then Facebook.

Oh nice! I started using Facebook when I was 11, then at 15 I made accounts on Hi5 and Yahoo (but I later deleted Hi5), and at 17 I created an Instagram account. I’ve forgotten the passwords to my old accounts, and for the last 2 years I haven’t made any new accounts. Social media can be annoying—losing passwords, hacked accounts, jealousy, and unfollows. Honestly, it can be negative in life.

There was no "Social Media" comparable to the ones we have nowadays in my youth, I'm already an adult when Myspace rolled in although I did had a now abandoned livejournal in the early 2000s

I understand. Do you prefer life without social media now?

Do forums count? Then at the age of 22, when I first got online. That was the main form of socialization in 1999, or at least the most accessible. Must have acquired an XMPP account sometimes in 2003-2004.

I was a bit of a late adopter of social media as far as 30-somethings go, I think I made my FB account at like... 14 or 15? And I was never allowed to have MySpace or the like, unfortunately. I was surprisingly disconnected from social media, and at this point I've gotten rid of or never got into most of the major websites in favor of the smaller stuff like this - even if I never really use this site like I'd thought I would lol

I got my first ever phone when I was 4, but it was one of thos Windows phone back in 2014 so I didn't really know how to use it. Social media started at the age of 8 when I got my old Huaweii for Pokemon Go and I created my YouTube channel, after that Snapchat and Instagram, way too young to be in the internet and I had freedom on the internet because my mom didn't really modorated what I was doing, just trusted that I'll be fine. Used to think this was a flex back in the day which it isn't.

Cool! I’ve never used XMPP, was it like MSN or Yahoo Messenger?

@NosyCat

I understand, social media can get boring. I didn’t use it much either, but I had accounts when I was 11–18. Now I don’t really feel like staying on socials, but I like SpaceHey. I made a new account there about 6 months ago. I’ve also used Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok, and SpaceHey, but I enjoy just staying there and reading comments lol.

@*J4d3_H4rpy*

Wow, you started really young! Do you still use YouTube, Snapchat, or Instagram now, or did you move to other platforms?

@iilimato

I'll count deviantart as social media. I used that only for really long time.

I was around 14 and thank god. 

i was in the 5th grade when i joined social media 

Ooh nice I never used DeviantArt, but I’m on Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok and Spacehey. Not really into Facebook or Instagram.

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Oh nice 👍 I was 11 when I first used social media, but I lost my old accounts. From 19 to 27 I didn’t really use social media. I’m not a big fan of it, but I do use Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok and Spacehey.

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@Diana I guess? I used both Yahoo! Messenger and XMPP from Pidgin anyway. But XMPP is an open, federated protocol, so it can only die when the last fan shuts down the last server. So it never went away, while people struggle to revive MSN or AIM via unofficial, reverse-engineered servers.

Wow, I didn’t know the difference between open protocols and closed ones. Do you run your own XMPP server or just use a client?

@NosyCat 

Age 8 if we're counting AOL/Yahoo chatrooms and forums, Age 11 if we're only counting "actual" sites! My mom made my first Myspace page for me back in 2006, it was the start to what has turned into a 19 year addiction... (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

I was 14 and I can double check because the only reason I went onto social media was because my mom and I were starting this brand new game and it was like 'check out our socials' and I was like 'yoooo I love this series I wanna do that!' and that's why I spend a majority of my waking time on youtube now or having it in the background lolol

That’s so nostalgic! Do you still remember what your Myspace page looked like?

@⚝dorkheadrae⚝ 

Lol that’s such a fun reason to start! Once you get into YouTube it’s hard to stop What kind of videos do you usually watch?

@emil 

If I remember right I think I started with MSN in 2004ish (as well as MSN+ which absolutely didn't instal malware haha), it was then MySpace around 2005 I think. So call it 14/15. I kept Myspace as my only social media until college around 2008 and I would jockey between the two before deactivating Myspace soon after. Kept IG for a while, got bored with SnapChat and Vine but proudly never joined TikTok haha.

We honestly didn't know how social media was going to turn out did we?