Back in the noughties, things like Facebook and Instagram hadn’t reached
critical mass, which meant chat sites were pretty popular, along with messengers
like MSN and AOL IM.
Mobile Phones hadn’t taken over the landscape, so using these things still
made you feel like something of a hipster. As you know, when a hipster
walks into a bar, they only do so ironically.
One of these chat sites was the very weird and sometimes wonderful,
Faceparty, which is somehow still going in 2025.
It still looks like it’s from the noughties and it’s hanging on by a thread.
Basically the whole thing is now a ghost town. People can’t upload photos
there anymore and I think the place is probably only frequented by swinger
couples looking for new recruits.
That was the thing about Faceparty, it had its fair share of weirdos and depravity,
to say the least. Even when it was popular, you’d only ever login armed with a can
of weed killer spray.
Every now and again you would get someone normal on there. Back in the mid to late
noughties some of these people could even hold a conversation and were quite fun.
With that said, I don’t find many people that stimulating, so I was usually
the entertainer (and I say that without sounding too arrogant since most
people only wrote things like “I’m okay hun, how about you x”)
No longer the case now though – whoever is running it keeps it online for
absolutely no reason, as there’s no point having a chat site where people
can’t upload photos of themselves.
So now nobody chats. Nobody does much of anything. It’s a place
where ghosts go to bounce in between virtual walls before logging
off again.
They are all just placeholders of a bygone era that haven’t yet been
disconnected by the owners of the site.
I predict that one day in the not so distant future it will either go offline
or be replaced by something like online casino ads.
Until then, witness what is still a curiosity of the noughties still somehow
managing to stay online in 2025. A time when AI is taking over the world and
algorithms know so much about you, that they even know what you’re having
for breakfast before you do.
Feast your eyes on this Faceparty Snapshot – taken 09/10/25 and immortalised
for as long as this blog stays online. Don’t sob too much when it’s gone for good…
When the internet rocked pretty hard, these quirky sites were more
exciting than what’s around now. For those that are ‘on the market’,
you can swipe right and swipe left if you fancy it with your jazzy apps,
but it’s a soul-less experience and you’re probably quite
likely to match your neighbour if you’re not careful *awks*.
Thanks for reading, see ya in the next one…
Let’s play this out with Magic In U by the Sugarbabies. In 1995 I had an amazing
stereo setup in my car and this sounded freaking unbelievable…