we would make the status "busy" or "out" to look cool
When we wanted to attract attention, we would do it online and offline, one after the other. we would spam notifications.
we used to send vibration, when we installed msn plus there was no vibration limit.
we used to send great animations like popping water balloons, kid with falling ice cream.
We used to send messages using the "what am I listening to" feature.
We had a lot of emojis, I think they were called icons or smile. We used to collect like crazy, we had an emoji for every word.