Zits and Zips

[flwyd]

A recent This American Life is all about that awkward period known as middle school. Near the beginning of the show, they state that middle-school-aged kids have more neuron development than at any other time after infancy. That period of our lives is thus, in large part, us becoming the us we will be in life

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[akkhima]

Very this. Except, Platt's computer lab geek boys wouldn't have anything to do with me (and I don't think they had a formal club), so I mostly figured it out on my own at home. Also, I did my first few years of flirting via the internet. I never found the erotic fiction, though.

Yay ytalk!

[flwyd]

The erotic fiction required figuring out how to get an account on a server that wasn't run by a school district.

[477150n]

Yeah, I think I mostly used the BVSD net *to* flirt.

I definitely think there is something hardwired into my brain that says the "chat" interface is a perfectly normal way to communicate.