There are so many things that trended back in the day; I am not talking about Gen-Z. Things I am about to say: I doubt @nhaji01 will know about it because she's a Gen-Z, but let's take a look to the past and talk about an application that seems barbed when found on the phone of a teen.
Unlike today's world, where kids in their early ages are already using smartphones and gadgets, they use their phones as touch lights and dictionaries. When I used Lightning from the Sky to read and one big Oxford Dictionary as big as a brick to find vocabulary, I could blast my friends when they were speaking English.
One of my favorite insults back then was
Alas, you this imperfect speaker. The intellectual sagacity of a young man who can not jeopardize his mental faculty.
Thinking about it now, I don't think what I said was making any sense, but I was praised a lot for it by my friends. Back then we had to achieve some great feat, either academically or in the church, but mostly academically, before my parents could ever think of getting us a phone before finishing secondary school.
Now, to the main topic. There is this application that shouldn't be seen on the phone of a teen. I am talking of back in the day, and the name of this application is "Eskimi."
Back then, this application was seen as the devil's tool to make kids commit fornication because it is a dating app. The truth is, when any of my peers say he has an Eskimi account, we usually feel this sense of superiority coming from them. "So you are dating online? You are a big boy; how many girlfriends do you have?" this and that kind of question.
Even after I got a browsing phone, I never had an Eskimi account because I was scared of my dad finding such an application on my phone. Back then, it felt like the child was doing yahoo yahoo if such an application was found on the phone.
There was a particular day I downloaded the application; without creating an account, I saw a lot of ladies and guys, and some dating suggestions were brought out for me.
No, no, no, as a child of God, I shouldn't be doing dating. These thoughts have been planted in me from a little child, so if I start chatting and doing online dating, I will be sinning against God. That was all I was thinking about, and then I deleted the application from my phone and never used it again. Anyway, I think Tinder is an amazing app.
Eskimi was one of the applications that allowed for sharing multiple pictures like Facebook before 2Go started allowing it. The application had a great start, but it turned out to be lost in time; even facebook which wasn't up to the application is still in existence, but no one knows about Eskimi again.
If you do remember this application, let me know if you had an account on it and what you did with your account. Thanks for reading. My name remains Fashtioluwa, the sweetest Alien on Hive.