Social Media Popularity vs. 90s Popularity in School

Social Media Popularity vs. 90s Popularity in School

B.S.M. - Before Social Media

As a millennial 90s kid and teenager, I was not the most popular kid in my honor roll gifted classes growing up. I knew, like, 4-5 kids  growing up, maybe 10 or 15 friends from school by the time I dropped out of art school or college.

A.S.M. - After Social Media

I recently did an internet search for my pre-internet friends. They all had social media files, but most of them  went onto lead pretty normal down to earth non famous lives. And the fact that each of them only had like one to two friends on Google+ if that shocked me. Is that how they wanted it to be? Meanwhile I ended up with 1,000s of people claiming to be my friends, an army of "fans" and admirers and friends.

But I didn't have social media pre-internet era. For a while I was just a normal kid. Nothing all that spectacular about me, well, on the surface anyway. I didn't get noticed a whole lot.