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Facebook killed my high school reunion
Yahoo News ^ | 5-16-14 | Darren Murph

Posted on 05/17/2014 5:18:03 PM PDT by windcliff

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To: windcliff
"Video killed the radio star."

"Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was beauty killed the beast"

41 posted on 05/17/2014 6:07:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ExGeeEye
Funny, Facebook enabled mine.

Ya, same here. I didn't go, because I only had one real friend in high school, but the class president found me on Facebook and that's how I got the invite.
42 posted on 05/17/2014 6:08:41 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: windcliff


43 posted on 05/17/2014 6:12:17 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: windcliff

I wouldn’t attend anyway.

Highschool for me was not dramatic, traumatic, or in any way unpleasant..... It just WAS.

I live in the present, with necessary forays into the future. Highschool is in my (distant) past. There is no reason for me to live even a tiny piece of it again.


44 posted on 05/17/2014 6:14:35 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: windcliff

I’m going to a high school reunion this summer and it will probably be ruined because just about everyone will probably have their faces in their smartphones...checking Facebook.


45 posted on 05/17/2014 6:15:05 PM PDT by arasina (Communism is EVIL. So there.)
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To: windcliff

I can’t remember if it was my 20th or 25th reunion that was coming up, but I recall getting a questionnaire in the mail asking various questions. One of the questions was, “Who did you most want to do the horizontal bop with?”. I found it amazing that many of the people I went to school with still hadn’t grown up. I pitched it in the trash and never looked back.


46 posted on 05/17/2014 6:30:47 PM PDT by Kharis13 (That noise you hear is our Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: DuncanWaring

After you had your hands amputated?


47 posted on 05/17/2014 6:32:46 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: clee1

I feel the same way. No interest in seeing those I last saw in 1959.


48 posted on 05/17/2014 6:34:31 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: dfwgator

My step daughter said that to me last week. I unplugged the wireless router and then said to her, “First world problems.”


49 posted on 05/17/2014 6:38:36 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: windcliff

Three places I have always wanted to avoid: prison, a nursing home, and high school. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.


50 posted on 05/17/2014 6:54:06 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: PistolPaknMama

See big or small, human relations is what are the most meaningful.

My class mates and I keep up via email (used to be snail mail, though I get on a writing kick every now and again and still send out the occasional letter) and other ways but nothing is so good as just sitting there, looking around the table at the faces of people who know me. We don’t have to say a thing. We all understand


51 posted on 05/17/2014 7:11:38 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: windcliff

I haven’t been to a single reunion even though I’m still in the same town. Don’t have any reason to use Facebook. Generally cross to the other side of the street or just ignore them if I see someone I know.


52 posted on 05/17/2014 7:17:08 PM PDT by steve86
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Not quite that bad.

Four people I can think of.

And one guy who was a year ahead of me.

There would be a fifth, but his pilot splatted him on a mountainside in Nevada few years after we graduated.


53 posted on 05/17/2014 7:17:47 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Sawdring

Bookmark


54 posted on 05/17/2014 7:19:33 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: Caipirabob

That’s my experience, too. Who would have expected that I would be one of the approximately 10% of my friends who turned out conservative? Facebook, where I’m a vocal conservative, distanced me from my closest high school friends by shining a bright light on our fundamental differences. I’m convinced this would have been far less likely a generation ago.


55 posted on 05/17/2014 7:20:49 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: windcliff

I look back and fond I have nothing in common with anyone I graduated with.
I missed the first 10 year reunion. I would not have gone to it anyway.
20 year, the wife insisted I go.
30 year the wife insisted I go.
40 I didn’t go even though the reunion was less than a mile away.
50, They will have an all school reunion. My brother and sister WILL NOT go. I may just to prove I am still alive and doing better than many of them.

I should have graduated Carlsbad NM High School but my dad grabbed us and dragged us kicking and screaming to the Ozarks for the last two years of schooling.


56 posted on 05/17/2014 7:26:10 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

fond=found


57 posted on 05/17/2014 7:27:57 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“. I may just to prove I am still alive and doing better than many of them.”

At a 50 year reunion who cares whether you’re doing better than many of them——and how on earth would you know that?

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58 posted on 05/17/2014 7:30:27 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Hoodat
"What’s ‘Facebook’?"

Part of the social media the 'Rats have been using to kick our a**es since 2007, just as they've been using pop culture to do so for 60 years. It's where today's young people -- those who are going to be running this nation after you're too old to do anything about it -- are getting their news and information. It's how things get done today, while techno-Luddites and crypto-Pubbies, who pine for the good old days of "Firing Line" and Bob Grant on the radio, diminish its importance.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, et al, are here to stay. Pooh-pooh them at your peril, and at the peril of the conservative movement.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

59 posted on 05/17/2014 7:39:41 PM PDT by wku man (We are the 53%! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXN0GDuLN4)
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To: Mears

***who cares whether you’re doing better than many of them***

It’s simple. In a class were everyone was inbread to everyone else, except me, I NEVER adapted to their hillbilly culture, and did well in an area where most people can’t make over minimum wage.

Plus I have met most of the REALISTIC goals I set out to achieve.

And I am kin to NO ONE here as I married a girl from Dallas TX.


60 posted on 05/17/2014 7:41:47 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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