Ahh… Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.
I never understood that, I never participated in that weird ASL greeting, even as a naive kid who didn’t even have social experience I felt that was creepy and dangerous to share that kind of thing, and I resented how it basically turned every conversation into “Is it remotely possible we could fuck.”
I’m so glad the internet outgrew that silly trend and became so much more refined, intelligent and respectful.
I feel like if parents took the internet more seriously from the start and were more actively engaged in what their rotten teenagers were getting up to online we might have had at least a slowdown of the awful decay of society as our worst intrusive thoughts now not only have space to be seen without consequence, we have entire communities supporting each other’s rotten intrusive thoughts.
Honestly, if my parents had any idea how many creeps were on AOL, I probably would’ve been banned from it. We’re like the “grew up with no seatbelts and survived” version of internet users.
My friends and I used to do that. We find some scumbag trawling the teen chat rooms on AOL and get them to IM us. The we’d say we wanted to send them a picture us and we’d send them gore, scat porn, and other gross shit. Some of the best nights of my teenage years.
Ahh… Hanging with friends gathered around a PC and trolling pedos on AIM. So weird that age, sex, and location were the primary opening lines of communication for a while. Even stranger that creepy dudes in their 40s were so honest about it while trying to pick up kids on the Internet.
I never understood that, I never participated in that weird ASL greeting, even as a naive kid who didn’t even have social experience I felt that was creepy and dangerous to share that kind of thing, and I resented how it basically turned every conversation into “Is it remotely possible we could fuck.”
I’m so glad the internet outgrew that silly trend and became so much more refined, intelligent and respectful.
I remember (as a girl) wanting to talk to another girl my age in a chatroom. The rest of the room started asking if I was a lesbian.
Like we couldn’t just talk to people online without bringing sex into it. I just wanted to make some friends.
I feel like if parents took the internet more seriously from the start and were more actively engaged in what their rotten teenagers were getting up to online we might have had at least a slowdown of the awful decay of society as our worst intrusive thoughts now not only have space to be seen without consequence, we have entire communities supporting each other’s rotten intrusive thoughts.
Honestly, if my parents had any idea how many creeps were on AOL, I probably would’ve been banned from it. We’re like the “grew up with no seatbelts and survived” version of internet users.
I mean, my parents freaked out about Smurfs and Phil Collins. We never had Internet in the house. They would have lost their minds.
My friends and I used to do that. We find some scumbag trawling the teen chat rooms on AOL and get them to IM us. The we’d say we wanted to send them a picture us and we’d send them gore, scat porn, and other gross shit. Some of the best nights of my teenage years.
Anyway ASL? 31 M AUS
12/F/Langley, VA
50/M/MAGA/Priest, 7/11 in 5, codeword: JoeBidden6969
18/F/Cali
This was the standard answer. Or was it 19?
Wait are you me?
I could be, there’s a non zero chance we’re a schizophrenic interacting with ourselves online and not know
Was that a pedo thing? I always assumed it was just teenagers.
Parents certainly thought it was a pedo thing, and while there certainly were some nefarious adults it was mostly just teenagers.