This is going to be as embarrassing as my first Facebook status update back in 07.
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It's the same thing all over again. I remember this feeling 10 years ago. I'd just gotten access to Facebook. An empty wall was embarrassing, so I really felt that I had to write something. Back then you didn't do Facebook posts. You did status updates. And they had to start with "[your name] is"; that wasn't optional. It was hard coded (i remember the day Facebook finally removed that; it was a good day). The "is" part was especially irritating as my native language is Swedish. I had to choose between writing in English or starting every status update with what in English would be my name followed by "ice".
I would write stuff like: "is paying his bills as he is developing a strong hatred towards Radiotjänst." Radiotjänst is a paragovermental organisation in Sweden to whom you are required by law to pay a television license(!) fee if you own a television... I remember feeling weird writing about myself in third person.
Once I apparantly felt it interesting enough to let the internet know that i was "home and all out of batteries", or "eating popcorn". All this in English.
When commenting links one wasn't stuck with that irritating is. This called for Swedish. In fact, all other communication with my Swedish friends over Facebook was in Swedish. All but the status updates. Weird. At this time there were a lot of plugins on Facebook. You could grow plants on your wall. You could own your friends as pets:
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To my astonishment this "virtual sub-society" can still be found at http://humanpets.com. Anyhow... My comment to this was simply "Vansinne!", or "Madness!" in English. This was the first thing that I shared and commented on Facebook ever. And that, and it, can in many ways be considered a fitting comment on Facebook.
I found one (1) regular status update in Swedish from 2007: "is har smält". "ice has melted". I must have been extremely bored. On the other hand. So is this post kind of. But that's how things are when you are new to something. Especially if that something also is new and evolving. I have no idea what Steemit will be 10 years from now. What I do know is that I'm hopefully going to look back at this post and feel equally as embarrassed as I did today when I looked back at my first ever Facebook status update:
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