Posted on 05/17/2014 5:18:03 PM PDT by windcliff
Facebook killed my high school reunion .
In a way, the high school reunion is as unashamedly American as apple pie and Chevrolet. Go on — ask your parents if they had one. I’d wager that the majority of them would say that they did, and in fact, they probably retain quite a few memories. Someone was shockingly large; someone was stunningly beautiful; someone had completely fallen off of the wagon. The high school reunion’s primary allure was the possibility — nay, the probability — of a few shockers, coupled with the underlying desire to show up and impress the folks who ragged on you with devilish persistence back in the day. Seeing anyone, let alone someone you once spent a great deal of time with, after a decade of absence is sure to be an interesting occasion.
Unfortunately for this generation, such a spectacle is nearly impossible to still find.
For as wonderful as Facebook is at keeping us connected to souls we’d otherwise lose contact with, it also removes the allure of “catching up.” For friends who refresh the site as frequently as the majority of users, it’s fairly easy to keep track of highlights from all of your friends’ lives. Facebook has made it impossible to see a connected friend 10 years later and feel as if any time has passed. Some would argue that’s a boon, but it single-handedly destroyed my high school reunion.
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I’ve only gone to one high school reunion, and that was enough. There might be five people out of a class of 500 or so that I’d have enjoyed seeing, and they weren’t there. Didn’t expect them to be, I was sort of surprised that I ended up going myself.
You’ve got the right attitude.
Thanks for the movie recommendation——I love movies and go just about every week.
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The Mickey D's is right below the microwave tower on the main drag. LOL. The original name wasn't Carlsbad it was Rattlesnake Flats as I understand it. A drive on the roads outside of town speaks for itself. I saw lots of roadkill rattlers with their rattles cut off. My sister lived there for about 10 years. Her husband worked at the nuke waste plant. I went out there once. The best place is the Caverns. Nice and cool.
I never went to my high school’s 10th reunion and since then the idea of seeing what time has done to all of us has been too depressing to consider.
We only had about 30 in our graduating class, and I have about 20 of them on FB as friends.
Reunion? Don’t need no steekin reunion; we weren’t united in the first place. I skipped the first 49 years of that nonsense; why should I bother with the 50th?
Graduation was the day I no longer had to associate with the vast majority who were not in any way my friends; my friends I kept, and still maintain contact with those left.
Considering the ones in my class are 30 years older and average 60-80lbs heavier, it doesn't bother me. :-P
I have been surprised by the number of my classmates that turned out conservative and/or Christian. A few of them arrived at either of both of those conclusions during the following 30 years.
The one reunion I was able to attend— last years’ 30th— was a great time. I’m glad I went, and I found that I have more friends among them now than when we were in school.
Since were all turning 50 over the next couple of years, we’re thinking of having a mini-reunion this year or next, and our old vice-principal may attend :)
Never attended mine.
Graduated and never went back; once was enough.
Hey! Me, too!
the Facebook works best when you post pictures of your hamburger, you and your spouse on the beach and a cat picture with a caption that’s been on the internet for a hundred years. The shallower the better.
I had four classmates living on my street in a nice suburb. On my street!
I had no idea who they were.
I went to three high schools, and have no interest in attending a reunion at any of them.
Found the opposite impact with my reunion. Had my 25th last year and Facebook was a big help with planning. It was a fun event and glad I went after bring on the fence about. Sure there are people you were never friends with in the first place but you also see people you never thought you missed. For me it was a wrestling team reunion. 7 of my fellow senior wrestling starters were there. The funny thing was, we all looked similar to our original weight classes.
There were those stoplights back in 1961 when I lived there. I believe they are designed to slow down everyone and maybe cause you to spend a little more in town.
I lived at Roswell twice, Tatum, Carlsbad, Hope(I call it despair).
Ever notice that in the movie KING SOLOMON’S MINES with Stewart Granger, the entrance to the cave is Sitting Bull Falls and the interior of part of the cave is a remote area of Carlsbad Caverns.
My class is using FB to gather up folks for our 30th reunion next month. Seems to be working just fine.
perzactly
Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high-school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.
Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". In September 2012, Facebook had over one billion active users, of which approximately 9% were fake. In 2012, Facebook was adding over half a petabyte of data every 24 hours, amounting to about 180 petabytes per year.
Knowledge is good.
Staying off the grid is also good.
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