Filtered: How social media allows us to relive our Junior High years over and over...

It took seven years before I finally gave in and made myself a Facebook profile. Initially I was nervous but soon became giddy and totally enthralled. I started to recognize my Facebook emotions as being familiar... It was an eery sort of deja vu… And then it hit me…Social Media was Junior High School. Only this time around Junior High was a controlled environment.

1. You spend as much time prepping for your profile picture as you would your yearbook photo, only this time you control the outcome.

2. Posting is like one continuous game of note passing, where everyone on the row can look as the back and forth comments are in plain view.

3. You immediately search for your school’s original queen bees and look to see if time has eroded the peroxide and white shimmer shadow.

4. You friend people who never spoke to you in junior high, yet at 25 feel a sense of validation when they accept your request.

5. You constantly count how many friends, likes. comments, etc, you have and compare that amount with your other friends. You’ll add just about anybody to add to the running total.

6. You stalk every boy you have ever liked since you were five (the digital "drive by" so to speak)

7. You think more about what you say, how you look, who you talk to and who talks to you than you have since you were twelve.

8. You try and control how you appear to others, but this time around you can edit, photoshop, delete and manipulate your image in any way you like.

9. You waste as much time on social media as you did when you first discovered talking to your girlfriends on the telephone in junior high,

10. You hesitate to share your age and relationship status.