One dreary Saturday afternoon, my best friend and I snuck away from the adults at the party to speak to more interesting people online. As we sat down behind the family computer, she was keen to show me a new platform that everyone was using. I remember being thoroughly unimpressed - the white and navy blue page seemed just as boring as the adults downstairs. And whilst she excitedly helped me set up an account, in my head I swore never to use it. And for a long time I didn’t, but eventually even I got swept away in what would become the world’s biggest social media platform.

I was a MySpace teenager through and through, complete with a self-deprecating bio, rotation of garish backgrounds and endless stream of selfies shot from an unusually high angle. I would spend hours locked away in my bedroom perfecting my profile, scouring online forums for tips on basic HTML coding. As a self-confessed weirdo, MySpace allowed me to build a digital extension of my teenage bedroom, plastered with my likes and dislikes for the whole world to see.

Being a mid-00s Emo, it’s not surprising that I was obsessed with MySpace. If part of Subcultures is all about peacocking, MySpace was just as important as the local park. Emo, alongside other 00s music Subcultures such as Grime and Dubstep, were the first to make use of the internet. Internet forums, personal blogs and early social media profiles enabled us to connect and share music with people across the world. At the same time, we left the internet behind whenever we went out, our Sony Walkmans and Nokia 3310s not yet allowing us to carry it around with us. We were the transition to a digital world that is now so ubiquitous.