My 20th high school reunion is this month. I am not going. There’s probably a really long blog entry in the reasoning behind that situation and I may get into it later this month. However, that’s a lot of self-examination and who enjoys that? So for now I’m using Reagan’s birthday as my excuse. She turns 13 that weekend which is a superbigdeal and I must be here for it. Right? Right.
While I am not attending my reunion, there are some people I’d love to talk to again. I started out with Classmates and got in touch with Eric that way and heard all about the five lifetimes he’s packed into my one, but Classmates has a very annoying format that requires money and is fairly restrictive. So I got a facebook account. I started out feeling waaaay too old to be on facebook. The only person I could find who I knew was my college-aged cousin Amanda. She was kind enough to accept my friending and I spent a few days being entertained by updates on her sorority life.
Then, I found
While I am not attending my reunion, there are some people I’d love to talk to again. I started out with Classmates and got in touch with Eric that way and heard all about the five lifetimes he’s packed into my one, but Classmates has a very annoying format that requires money and is fairly restrictive. So I got a facebook account. I started out feeling waaaay too old to be on facebook. The only person I could find who I knew was my college-aged cousin Amanda. She was kind enough to accept my friending and I spent a few days being entertained by updates on her sorority life.
Then, I found
from high school. I got caught up on his very exciting and successful life in New York which left me feeling slightly mediocre and very mid-western but it was great to hear from him and discover that he’s still funny and friendly and talented. I also got caught up with Matt and Stacy and Melissa. That exhausted the high school friends I could find.
By that time though, I’d added my local 20something friends. It turns out, that if I want to keep up with their lives and communicate quickly, that facebook is the way to go. They’re all there and use it regularly. I love it.
The most interesting find was my long, lost, internet friend Heather. I’ve never met her but we used to communicate regularly and I was totally bummed when I realized I didn’t have her e-mail anymore. There she was on facebook though and I was so happy to find her.
The most disturbing find? Looking up one of my college friends and finding his teenage daughter instead and then realizing that I have an almost teenage daughter of my own. Someone pass me my cane please.
Rounding out my friend list are a few friends from my former life in Denver and my sisters and some of their real life friends. Also, Rich, but he doesn’t count because our lives haven’t gotten quite so busy that I need facebook to keep up with my own husband. Which is lucky for me because he never checks his. He’s kinda lame that way.
Really, I don’t know why facebook is a “young people thing.” When I was younger I had time to keep up with all of my friends. Plus, I saw all of them all the time. Now I have 30+ years worth of friends and acquaintances spread out across the country and little time to talk with them - assuming I know how to find them in the first place. I love the format of having everyone in one place with updates as frequently as they care to give them.
Shoot, I’m sounding like a paid advertisement here which was not my intent. I’m a bit rambly today. I had a great blog written in my head about the Barbie dolls the kids blew up on the 4th, but I accidentally deleted the pictures and the story wasn’t much good without them. So here are my thoughts on facebook instead. I’ll try to have a more interesting rest of the week.
By that time though, I’d added my local 20something friends. It turns out, that if I want to keep up with their lives and communicate quickly, that facebook is the way to go. They’re all there and use it regularly. I love it.
The most interesting find was my long, lost, internet friend Heather. I’ve never met her but we used to communicate regularly and I was totally bummed when I realized I didn’t have her e-mail anymore. There she was on facebook though and I was so happy to find her.
The most disturbing find? Looking up one of my college friends and finding his teenage daughter instead and then realizing that I have an almost teenage daughter of my own. Someone pass me my cane please.
Rounding out my friend list are a few friends from my former life in Denver and my sisters and some of their real life friends. Also, Rich, but he doesn’t count because our lives haven’t gotten quite so busy that I need facebook to keep up with my own husband. Which is lucky for me because he never checks his. He’s kinda lame that way.
Really, I don’t know why facebook is a “young people thing.” When I was younger I had time to keep up with all of my friends. Plus, I saw all of them all the time. Now I have 30+ years worth of friends and acquaintances spread out across the country and little time to talk with them - assuming I know how to find them in the first place. I love the format of having everyone in one place with updates as frequently as they care to give them.
Shoot, I’m sounding like a paid advertisement here which was not my intent. I’m a bit rambly today. I had a great blog written in my head about the Barbie dolls the kids blew up on the 4th, but I accidentally deleted the pictures and the story wasn’t much good without them. So here are my thoughts on facebook instead. I’ll try to have a more interesting rest of the week.
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