If I can remember vividly, it was the year 2012 when we just moved to a new location. After I finished secondary school in the year 2010, I moved to my aunt's place in Ibadan, and I only lived for two years at her place before we found another place.
I didn't own a browsing phone but I had one that could make and receive calls and also play games. Then, I enjoyed playing games on my phone and would listen to one of my favourite ringtones that sounded so interesting.
I had heard little about Facebook from my friends and people who would often talk about the experience on their phone but never knew how it worked, not until my younger sister, came home one day when I was still with my parents and with an Android phone.
I became puzzled when I didn't understand what she was doing on her phone, especially how she would continuously swipe her fingers from left to right, up and down typing. I kept hearing a constant tone that kept sounding whenever a message entered, and this made me inquisitive, and I began to ask questions.
She explained that she was sending messages to her friends and it's called chatting on an app called "Whatsapp". It was so sleek and I love how it looked. This was a whole new thing to me entirely, and I wished I had a phone that had WhatsApp where I could do such too.
She also explained Facebook to me because I couldn't stop asking questions including how to open an account. I asked her how she got friends to chat with, and she told me once they have the app and their numbers are connected, it's automatic, and we would start chatting, but it's different on Facebook.
I had the opportunity to use my aunt's phone that night when we finished unpacking our bags, and luckily for me, she had data which was given any time she loaded airtime. I also didn't understand what data or megabytes was then; all I knew was that I was able to make use of her phone, and I opened my Facebook account in the year 2012, which is still functioning now even though I'm not always active.
At that time also, it was the era of going to the cafe to browse, and you would pay depending on the minutes or hours you'd be using the computer. Since I couldn't go on using her phone all the time, whenever my uncle was going out, which I knew was to the cafe to browse, I would follow him.
The first time I went with him, and he paid for some hours to browse, I begged him to allow me use a few minutes just to check my Facebook account. I'd brought the book that I jotted down my account name and password in, so I quickly logged in, and the interface on the computer was just strange to me. Very big and not like the phone I used. I was able to view many things at once.
The whole system was baffling, especially when I saw different pictures of people I knew. It was a new experience for me that day and it was like I shouldn't leave the cafe. I kept scrolling up and down to see people and how Facebook worked. I remember adding people, including the ones I didn't know as friends, and some, I would get friend requests, and I would click the follow button immediately. It was so exciting seeing things on the internet for the first time.
I was astounded when I tried asking Google a question and got different answers and it was a shock to me to see how things were done online. It was a new concept to me. Whenever my aunt was sleeping or not using her phone, I would try to use it just to check my Facebook, connect with people and start chatting with many who became friends to me, not until everything changed when I got my new browsing phone, especially one I could install WhatsApp on it, then I left Facebook for a while.
Whenever I have people messaging me on Facebook, I leave my WhatsApp number so we can chat there instead until I understand how not giving your number to just anybody could save one from the unnecessary mess.
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As far as I can remember I opened my Facebook account in 2013 and at that time I was a little kid who created the account after my father talked about it many times. It seems you came a little bit earlier in the online world from me.
Yea, I came a bit earlier before you.
So you were also part of us.....phone sneakers just to connect to the internet at night 😁😁😁
It all begins as a new ground for us and till date we are still learning how to use the internet.
Hahaha. The surprised thing is that we aee still learning how to use the internet today. Lol
Yes we sre
I don’t know why I’m laughing🤣
Princess so you were waiting for your aunt to sleep for you to do your agenda? 😂😂
Hahaha 😀 it's really fun. My siblings and I always sneaked to grandma's room every night, picked her phone to do extra cool, calling boys then 😃😃
Thank you, too.
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Reading this I remember how I use to take my dad's phone to press but in my case it was just to play games back then.
I remember paying to use the internet in cyber cafe back then, good old days. Now everything is different.
Yea, good old days. A lot have changed today.
So you literally sneaked to use your aunts phone at night haha. Well,I am just like,I am not innocent too. Those days of cyber cafe were actually a very crazy and different time, children given birth to nowadays don't even know how lucky they are.
Yes oo. Children of nowadays are so lucky they can get those stuff at the tips of their fingers and we are also enjoying it too.
All I could imagine was you saying, "Wow, wow" all through the new FB and WA experience. Now you've turned to an expert yourself.
Hahaha. Yes, right. It was a wow experience for me 😀
I can relate to the first time of logging into Facebook on a big screen, you get to see everything that the phone doesn't reveal at once and the pictures look bigger and better.... I miss those days of megabytes too... with 15 MB, we can do a lot of things but the moment Android entered the picture, megabytes became nothing.