I'm way late to this party, but Myspace was my shit. I was a shy emo kid that was too afraid to talk to girls directly. So instead I wouldn't have to get a girl's number and text her (this was barely a thing back then) and could instead do it online and plan out what I wanted to say unlike with instant messaging.

It was really an emo kid's paradise. You get to project and image you want with music being a key theme. You could post quizzes and show people that if you were any kind of dragon, you would be a black one. You could post a "deep" blog about how you feel unloved and the darkness around you. People joke about being emo as being a fad, but to me it was life and Myspace was a key part of it. It was who I was and Myspace was my only real outlet to express myself.

Then there is the vain side that can come out with the arrogance of being a teenager. I would post how the products I loved were superior to the products that I hated (Ford vs. Chevy, Xbox over PS2, etc.) as well as my view on politics and religion. But the major way to feel superior to everyone else was to see if they could use their own HTML or used a generator based on the tag in the corner of the screen.

And back to my previous point, the end of my emo years match up almost directly with starting college, meeting my girlfriend, and switching from Myspace to Facebook (which I dragged my feet on because I fucking loved it.)

The definition of my late teens was Myspace. It was the perfect little piece of the internet that had a little bit of everything. The idea of having a place you can talk to girls you went to school with, strangers with similar hobbies (I learned a ton about cars there), and a personalized web page of all about yourself would have been the most outlandish idea ever if you didn't know what it existed, but that is exactly what it was.