Cosmopolitan US May2020

Just a bunch

of AIM

confessions

to

make you

feel old

I ’ll go f irst: My us e r n am e

was tatortotcutie23—

and yes, that’s “tater tot”

spelled incorrectly.

pdancer2283: “Yes, this

was my username. I didn’t

realize at the time how risqué

it sounded, but I promise that

the ‘p’ did not stand for

‘pole’!” —PATTY, 24

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tnhorsegirl30: “In middle

school, I got into a huge fight

with my BFF. But I didn’t know

exactly how to use AIM, so

every time she messaged me,

she got my Away message. It

was something super sassy like

‘Don’t call me, I’m busy, bye!’

and I couldn’t figure out how to

turn it off. She got really mad.

We weren’t friends after that.”

—SAVANNAH, 26

xBlueEyedGurl1224x: “M y n e i g h b o r c a m e o v e r

one day and we decided to go onto AIM together. When

she left, she forgot to log out of her account, so I used it

for about a month to try to convince the boy I had a crush

o n t o l i ke m e b a c k. I t d i d n’t w o r k .” —MORGAN, 28

Jaded_JC_xD:

“If my crush didn’t start a

chat with me within five

minutes of logging on,

I would purposefully log

out and log back in to

make sure they saw that

I was online.” —JC, 26

mojojojo34: “One

t i m e i n s i x t h g ra d e, I

asked the guy I liked who

he was into over AIM. He

said, ‘Why???’ and I

responded, ‘Sorry, my

sister sent that lol.’”

—MARIAH, 25

burtonboarder777:

“O n e t i m e o v e r A I M , my

classmate said, ‘I like you.

D o y o u l i ke m e? ’ I

responded, ‘Yes! I like

you!’ Then he said, ‘Lol,

jk, I don’t,’ and signed off.

My first real taste of rejec-

tion.” —SARAH, 26

awsmlygorgeous05:

“My friend and I AIM’d her

super-hot stepbrother to ask

w h a t h e w a n t e d f o r d i n n e r.

Instead of spelling ‘that it?’

I accidentally typed ‘that tit’

and my sixth-grade self

was shooketh because I’d

inadvertently said ‘tit.’”

—MICHELLE, 25

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luver66xo: “I

used AIM to break

u p w i t h my f i r s t

boyfriend. He left

an Away message

immediately after

that said, ‘Don’t

talk to me.’”

—KATHERINE, 22

xXsweetcheexX: “I used AIM to talk to

older men I catfished on Myspace. But when

they would message me thinking they were

t a l k i n g t o a n 18 - y e a r- o l d s ka t e r gi r l w h o s e

picture I found on Google, I’d be too scared

to respond. So I guess that makes me the

original ghoster?” —CHLOE, 29

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22 Cosmopolitan May 2020

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