1. The Fights We Get Into In the 1990s, your BFF pledged to care for your computerized pet while you were away on vacation, but then let it die. You could not look at her the same way after that. Adults don’t fight anymore. Instead, we leave passive-aggressive remarks on Facebook and purposefully avoid liking each other’s Instagram photos.
2. How We Make Up Afterward. In the 1990s: This was the pre-smartphone era, so getting through a fight with your best friend usually involved passing her a note in class, complete with lots of frown faces, dotting the i’s with hearts so she knew how sad you were without her, and ending it with “LYLAS” — “love you like a sis,” for anyone who forgot how we used to abbreviate stuff. Today, the peace offering is typically a $12 Starbucks coffee drink and a smiling selfie of you two together to put the past behind you.
3-Friday Night Entertainment In the 1990s, we’d go to the mall and buy false nose rings from Claire’s before slipping into an R-rated movie. We were really horrible. Today, who goes out anymore? Not us. Give us something to binge-watch on Netflix and a bottle or 12 of wine, and we’ll be good. Can you say “friYAY”?
4. Playing Wingwoman. In the 1990s, after utilizing the almighty cootie catcher to figure out who the love of your life was, you’d plan a run-in during science class while your best friend kept the other girls at bay. Today: Every BFF knows how to help you find lasting love: spend 14 hours searching for him on Facebook using only his middle name.
5 Squad Goals. In the 1990s, life was all about meeting three other ladies who were as cool as you and pretending to be the Spice ladies. Today: The good news is that you only need one more person to perform the Single Ladies dance, but you aren’t much of a people person these days, so your BFF will suffice.
6 . Things We Gossiped About in the 1990s: It was generally about how your biggest adversary came up to school wearing the same scrunchie, stole your slap bracelet, or gave everyone save you one of her Warhead candies at lunch. Today: Whatever it is, it most likely has to do with Game of Thrones.