Last night, the fabric of our very society shredded, bringing everything we have come to know to a screeching halt.

And by that I mean Facebook and Instagram were down for about an hour.  That hour also happened to be one during which much of the East Coast was asleep.

How did we cope with such a thing?  Well we still had Twitter, and for the first time in forever, I had MySpace.

Much like when I logged into AIM last year, this experience was a tremendous walk down memory lane.  My profile picture?  This beauty, from a foot scanner machine at the shoe store where I worked back in the 2005-07 MySpace glory days:

I knew the site underwent all kinds of changes, including new ownership, but I wasn’t sure what to expect.  For example, the profile picture is there, as is my “Top 8,” but gone are any posts made to what I’ll call my wall because I don’t remember the term here and so too are any messages sent between me and my friends.

Oh and the MySpace blog section is no more.  Good thing I moved mine over here many years ago.

With the posts gone, there was really only one thing to do: pick up where I left off.

I looked through the list of my 65 “connections” and was amazed at some of the profile pictures.  Some of you looked very different in 2006.  I also for the life of me can’t remember the last name of one girl I knew in college.  Overall, my best guess is that I’ve had contact with 42 of them in the past year or so, which actually seems pretty good to me.

OH.  I just remembered that girl’s name.  I’m crushing this MySpace thing.

When I poked around some more I discovered one very scandalous fact related to my family. 

For those who don’t know, I have three siblings — an older and younger brother and a twin sister (which is not the scandal).  The first three real people in my Top 8: younger bro, older bro, sister.

First of my sister’s Top 8: husband, older bro, me, younger bro.

Older bro has no Top 8.

Younger bro?  He has only six people in his Top 8.  The last two are me and our older brother.  Our sister is NOT ON THE LIST.

Christmas is going to be so awkward next year.