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The Horror of MySpace Top 8 Friends: What Was That All About?
Way before Instagram and Tiktok took over, it was all about MySpace, but the original social media site could be brutal: they made you rank your friends!
One of MySpace’s flagship features was the Top 8 friends function, which gave you the ability to bookmark the profiles of your chosen besties front and center on your page, so that anyone who stopped by got an instant, flattering impression of who you were and who you hung out with. If you spotted that your so-called best friend had bumped you down a few slots in favor of that girl Laura who she LITERALLY JUST MET, you would cry for days (and then use the ensuing emo mirror selfie as your profile pic). One minute your page was a sea of high school BFFs, all side swept bangs and exaggerated cheekbones, the next they had been traded in for your new college dorm crew, who looked the same, but with more expertly-applied eyeliner.
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