You can go 15 years back in time and give yourself one bit of advice. What is it?

Dep!

I think mine is fairly easy for me.

"Buy Apple shares!"

suicide_circus

"Dont put the pussy on a pedestal"

smash

Create facebook and Twitter

Magico Gonzalez

I'd say "chill out kid, in 15 years time you're going to invent a time machine and it'll be gravy from them on"

DamagedTrax

PULL OUT!!!!!

(not really, i love my little mistake!)

bjork

wear sunscreen

Macker2001

Encourage my mam to get a colonoscopy

Only 15?

Too late. Dammit.

PizzamanIRL

Do your Irish homework or you'll get detention.

Dep!

smash wrote: »

Create facebook and Twitter

Not as straightforward as it would seem.

You could tell him or her to "create" anything. Facebook. Twitter. Even Google. But then how would they go about it? All of these three companies were a result of knowledge and determination, finances already in place etc. Too many variables. The main one your past self wont have is the knowledge of how to do it because your current one doesnt.

Nah, I say tell yourself to simply invest in all three at their earliest stages and sit back and reap the rewards

5rtytry56

Joe now that you've gone back 15 years in time

Sell your Eircom Shares now................... N O W

Magnate

DamagedTrax wrote: »

PULL OUT!!!!!

(not really, i love my little mistake!)

Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:

Dep!

Magnate wrote: »

Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:

DamagedTrax

Magnate wrote: »

Before "The One" comes knocking? :rolleyes:

eh?

smash

Dep! wrote: »

The main one your past self wont have is the knowledge of how to do it because your current one doesnt.

And that's where you're completely wrong!

In 1999 myself 2 friends created a mini social network that accepted photos through an mms gateway. We decided not to peruse it because hardly anyone had phones with cameras and those who did wouldn't have paid the 25c per mms. Especially when the quality was utterly crap. After that we fell out of touch so couldn't relaunch it.

Sheep Lover

Don't let her get away.......















I got 7 years over that fiasco

Magnate

DamagedTrax wrote: »

eh?

To warn you also,

biko

Don't eat the yellow snow

DamagedTrax

Magnate wrote: »

To warn you also,

ahh!

i thought you were the catholic institute for a minute there

fiachr_a

UK garage, enjoy it while it lasts!

Banjoxed

Just because that boss has a mad sense of humour doesn't mean you'll always be laughing. Get back to where you really wanted to be instead and dig yourself in.

Dep!

smash wrote: »

And that's where you're completely wrong!

In 1999 myself 2 friends created a mini social network that accepted photos through an mms gateway. We decided not to peruse it because hardly anyone had phones with cameras and those who did wouldn't have paid the 25c per mms. Especially when the quality was utterly crap. After that we fell out of touch so couldn't relaunch it.

So your company could have been Facebook?

Really?

Then how come Bebo and Myspace arent worth the $200 billion Facebook is?

No the only way Id see making money out of Facebook in a time travel scenario is to go to Harvard around June 2003, a few months before Zuckerberg invents it and have half a million to invest in it with him. You've earned this cash from your Apple shares for the sake of this scenario. You also have a very good lawyer present during the whole process as Zuckerberg screwed over his early partners.

Then you find a ten year old Justin Bieber and with your new found wealth pay him a million dollars to sign a legally binding contract to never enter the music business.

Lisha

Carbs are not your friend.

Canyon86

Study more in school

Save more in jobs etc

Frigga_92

15 years ago is too late

Greenmachine

Don't come to work drunk. :P

AnonoBoy

I'd obviously give him that sports almanac that I stole off that pipsqueak McFly.

RobbingBandit

I'd give me a sports almanac and go all paradox Biff on the next 15 years. Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.

Beaten by 2 seconds what are the odds

Zulu

Bollix to all the company mallarky. I'd bring a fistful of winning euro million lottery numbers.

The Strawman Argument

"You're only nine years old, you could probably get away pretty lightly with murdering a few of them, go on, do it! You'll regret it if you don't "

Eh... I'm only joking, of course

Dep!

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.

:eek:


Ladies and Gentlemen. We are in the first After Hours thread to get flagged by the CIA.

Dep!

Zulu wrote: »

Bollix to all the company mallarky. I'd bring a fistful of winning euro million lottery numbers.

I think this may be the best one for financial gain in hindsight.

smash

Dep! wrote: »

So your company could have been Facebook?

Really?

Then how come Bebo and Myspace arent worth the $200 billion Facebook is?

no I'm saying I had the means to do it. The other sites you mentioned sold for a lot, then went to shít because they allowed users to modify the platform.

Anyone could have done it but he was in the right place at the right time. I'm saying if I could go back, I'd have done it how he did.

zcorpian88

Argue with the parents more about the secondary school I was made go to, put your foot down, the place isn't good enough.

I argued my case before, during and even after my time in the kip, all the good it done me!

lazygal

Relax. Stop worrying so much about the future.
And don't have that fling. You know the one I'm talking about. Just don't go there.

Dep!

smash wrote: »

no I'm saying I had the means to do it. The other sites you mentioned sold for a lot, then went to shít because they allowed users to modify the platform.

Anyone could have done it but he was in the right place at the right time. I'm saying if I could go back, I'd have done it how he did.

And then how do you get people like Sean Parker and the founder of Paypal interested?

And how could "anyone have done it" with a company now worth more than some country's GDP?

I dont think you've thought this through. No time machine for you Im afraid.

Birneybau

Buy Apple shares, all of them.

Brian2208

I wish I could just go back 15 minutes and not watch that video on Facebook I just watched

Scarred for life

johnny osbourne

wear proper personal protection equipment

Shrap

Dep! wrote: »

I think mine is fairly easy for me.

"Buy Apple shares!"

15 years ago? No regrets.

6 years ago? Buy Bitcoins when you're told to, you dozy effing cow :mad: Ah well. Probably wouldn't have sold them at the right time either

jamesbere

Kill jedward

smash

Dep! wrote: »

And then how do you get people like Sean Parker and the founder of Paypal interested?

And how could "anyone have done it" with a company now worth more than some country's GDP?

I dont think you've thought this through. No time machine for you Im afraid.

Sean Parker got involved after it was created. The funding all came after it was launched! So just feck off, your just irritating now. The thread is what you'd do if you could go back 15 years. If you don't like what someone would do then keep your opinions to yourself.

Gran Hermano

Health checks. Get a yearly 'NCT' done on your body.

15 years ago I had already made all the mistakes I was going to make in life. So I would have just told myself to keep doing what am doing and not to forget to take the meds.

ChunkyLover54

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'd obviously give him that sports almanac that I stole off that pipsqueak McFly.

1999 Champions League Final. 90th Minute:

"Listen butthead. I bet you a million bucks Man Utd will score 2 goals in the next 2 minutes"

Seanf999

Nothing.. Not because I'm so great but because I don't think 2 year old me would have listened

Dep!

smash wrote: »

Sean Parker got involved after it was created. The funding all came after it was launched! So just feck off, your just irritating now. The thread is what you'd do if you could go back 15 years. If you don't like what someone would do then keep your opinions to yourself.

Ahahaha. Seriously?

You're going to invent Facebook all without the circumstances that Zuckerberg had? Harvard. His circle of programming friends. The likes of Eduardo Saverinand and others who helped build it with Zuckerberg?

You are living in a feckin' fantasy land if you think you could do Facebook with your own knowledge. And this is a fantasy thread to begin with!

This is you tbh http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/spoiled-girl.jpg

murrayp4

RobbingBandit wrote: »

I'd give me a sports almanac and go all paradox Biff on the next 15 years. Also I'd kill Obama before he could get elected.

Beaten by 2 seconds what are the odds

Enjoy your time on the Watch List.

upandcumming

Work harder in school and college. I am paying for it now.

bodice ripper

all of the things you are most frightened of will come true

reprise

Win the lottery live for five glorious years. Tenth anniversary of my death. Time flies.