LOL we had two VW busses with pop tops, and a CB radio. I mostly just listened to conversations, and every once in a while would interject something silly followed by lots of giggles. I was a bit younger, elementary school.

Middle and high school social media consisted of scribbles and notes on each others Pee Chee folders :)

Pagers were the big trend when I was in high school. Which really does not seem like it was that long ago....

Do they still make those any more?

That's all newfangled stuff. Our social media was hanging out on the front stoop talking to the neighbors! :-)

In my town most of the social media started at Andersons country store (a little grocery store & meat market) and continued from there into afternoon housewife coffee and gossip sessions. After that the topics we're exaggerated yet further by young eavesdroppers until the grown men finally heard. At that point the men's version circled back around the whole process again except it was much more colorful and scandalizing after all the add-ons. Back at Andersons market the revised story was stated as absolute fact because after all "everyone" knew of it so it must be true. Andersons was like the Internet and Facebook all in one.

Oh we were soooo bad on that cb radio. I suppose one could say we were promoting safe sex, but out breaking in to conversations with "bringarubberbringarubber" was not well received at the time.

Ooh, Jen....thank you so much for reminding me of those little origami thingies! The little girls next door will love them. I'm always looking for little ways to surprise/amuse them. If I remember how to make one, it will be a testament to my 'little gray cells', ha!

We called the folded paper "cootie catchers". I guess our social media was passing notes in class. I also remember something awful called "slam books" where someone would write "what do you think of Jane Jones (a classmate)" and people would fill in comments, some nice and some not so nice, and then pass it around the class. Of course, everyone got to see what was written about them. We also talked endlessly on the phone, which was in the hall and had a cord about a foot long.

A best friend and I happened to share a party line so she and I would call up other friends and have 3 way conference calls long before they invented such a thing...and we'd be on the phone for hours!

Of course other friends and I would write letters to each other. I still remember my heart jump when I found out there was something in the mail for ME!

OMG this brings back memories!!

Obviously, my HS Sr. year was 1979 (hence Faron79!), & I mainly drove our "new" farm pickup at the time, a Black 1978 Chevy Silverado.

(how do I get this UN-bolded???)

Can't remember who came up with my "handle"...Black-Tiger.

Uffda! ;-)

Faron

Note writing! I'd forgotten how my friends and I used to write notes to one another that often turned into long letters, decorated in the margins with little illustrative drawings. These weren't long-distance friends either, but girls that I saw regularly at school or church. I wonder if girls today write notes? I tend to doubt it, with everything being electronic. That's rather sad, I think. Note-writing, as silly as it was, gave us an outlet for artistic and grammatical expression that today's texts simply cannot do.

Annie, we also had a party line! I'm sure our neighbours hated when I reached my teen years and felt I had the right to be on the line for hours. I've tried explaining the concept of a party line to my students, but they just stare in disbelief.

Party lines! Yeah, a bit scary what we did as kids.

How lucky you had nice people on your party line. I had some angry old lady who seemed to think it was her line we got to occasionally use. And "children" should not be allowed to use the phone at any time. I got chewed out many a time for calling to see if a friend was home before I walked there. I am still not good at chatting on the phone all these years later.

I vaguely remember a party line in the home when I was a very small child - maybe 4 or 5 years old. It's funny to me how many countless hours I spent on the phone as a teenager. My girlfriends and I would see each other at school, then be on the phone together in the evening (s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g that curly phone cord into all kinds of unnatural, elongated shapes). I remember just HANGING on the phone too, not really having anything of consequence to talk about. Maybe watching the same TV show and commenting occasionally. When I had a boyfriend, it was often the same thing.

Now I do not enjoy talking on the phone much at all. I DO like to speak with my parents (my mom and I have been known to hold marathon, chatty sessions), but for the most part I am just not comfortable making calls or talking to others that way. I'm not even sure why that is, unless I just got it all out of my system as a teen!