Did you have a Fotolog?

[Moonshroom]

I don't know if this was the case on the rest of the world, but Fotolog was the DOMINANT FORCE here for a surprising amount of time.

Nobody had MySpace, very few people had heard about Facebook and there was no Instagram to hang out at, so anybody who was anybody went and made a "Flog" (particularly on Terra's server). These pages were so popular that they even spawned an entire subculture here and they also became the number one form of SPAM among forums and Instant Messaging apps. It was so crazy that people I knew forfeited their MSN Messenger accounts and the only way to really reach them was through their "Flogs"... which was all fine and dandy until the fad had come to a pass and you realized that there was no way to contact these online friends at all anymore. I literally haven't talked to many of my first online friends since 2006 or so because of their undying love for this fad and now that their pages have long been deleted by the server providers, nothing remains of our talks.

My, personally? I never had a "Flog", for most of the same reasons that I don't post pictures on Facebook or Instagram. I don't like taking pictures of myself and I particularly don't like sharing them with strangers around the globe (and besides, these were really primitive pages with very few things on the way of security and anti-harrasment tools). I was always seen as a bit of an oddball because of this decision of staying the hell away from the most popular thing ever™.

What about you? Did you have your own "Flog"? Were you active at all? Or is this your first time hearing about these? Tell us!

[Kyng]

I've never heard of it ! I guess nobody knew about it over here.

But, even if I did, I don't expect I would've used it for much. Like you, I don't really enjoy taking pictures of myself, and I don't take enough pictures to really justify having it . (I do have an Instagram, but I don't think I've ever uploaded anything to it!)

[Frances]

I've heard of it and have seen some captures through the Wayback Machine. I was obsessed with music and bands and I guess back then (I'm not sure which era Fotolog was in; before/after/during MySpace?) and they were fan accounts on fotolog where they would put bands photoshoots for people to look at (and for me to collect). I didn't have an account or anything because I wasn't "in the era", but yeah, looks fun! 

And for some reason, the people who had these accounts were always from South America? So I thought Fotolog was only for the South Americans 

[Kyng]

And for some reason, the people who had these accounts were always from South America? So I thought Fotolog was only for the South Americans 

Maybe that's why I'd never heard of it... I didn't know any South Americans back then !

[Moonshroom]

And for some reason, the people who had these accounts were always from South America? So I thought Fotolog was only for the South Americans 

Maybe that's why I'd never heard of it... I didn't know any South Americans back then !

And now you know the best of them all. That's what I call "progression: ;D

But yeah... it was a pretty South American thing, but I actually came across a ton of other ones as well, they just weren't nearly as active.

[Ognimod]

Two words: "AHRE" and "EFEÁME".

You're welcome for the Vietnam flashbacks, Moon. =P