It's interesting and fun to see the topics that are trending on social media. One that is on the most popular list right now is "BackIn7thGrade," which is a topic that has a lot of potential for laughs. The idea is people post a twitter comment of something they remember from when they were in seventh grade. There are tweets about listening to Hanson's "Um Bop," MySpace layouts, slide-out keyboard phones, voice mail, and more. These tweets make me wonder how old the majority of the posters are. They're likely still in high school! No crime against that except it's like calling music from 2000 "Old School.'" You can comment on "BackIn7thGrade" if you're barely removed from middle school. Anything that contains the phrase 'back in' hearkens to older days like back in the day.
There are some tweets on there that made me chuckle a bit because they're some of what I remember about seventh grade. There's one commenting that boyfriends and girlfriends would barely talk to each other and their friends would force them to hug. Also, you got your friend to ask someone out for you or ask the other person if they liked you. When I was in seventh grade cell phones weren't for the average person and weren't for commercial use. That was still about five years away. There was no Facebook or Twitter because kids didn't even have email accounts. I remember Jolt parties where we drank a ton of super caffeinated soda and stayed up all night. I had permed hair and plastic rim glasses. I was in band and acted in the school play. Things were so much more simple then compared to seventh graders now who have all of this technology, not to mention the typical cattiness of middle school spilling over onto the internet in the form of cyber bullying.
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