Well, it finally happened.
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My high school classmates found me on Facebook. Wonder how many people who never talked to me are going to add me as a friend?
I hate it when people do that
27th November 2008 at 2:45 am | permalink |"Hey look it's that guy who we told his life wasn't worth living. I wonder what he's up to?"
morons
Just so they can feel all big when they see how many people are their "friend".
It's all so lame.
when i pick up the kids at school I keep hearing the mom talk about facebook. I know eventually one of them will find me, and my nice and neat compartmentalized world will collapse on me.
27th November 2008 at 5:57 am | permalink |All of them.
27th November 2008 at 10:16 am | permalink |Agree totally. It's one thing for casual acquaintances from HS to say hi, but it's another for people who were like complete strangers to connect just because you have "went to the same high school" in common.
There's a reason I didn't go to my class reunions. High school isn't worth reliving as an adult.
27th November 2008 at 10:43 am | permalink |@Steve: Oh, it wasn't that bad. Most people just didn't. speak. to. me. hehe. The first two friend requests I got were actually from people who spoke to me though, so now I'm just waiting to see. (And this site is linked from my profile, so that could be interesting. lol)
@graywolf: It's just so wrong! Things like that are supposed to be for the hip young crowd, and the internet-savvy elite among the old folks, aren't they?!
@ericka: I suspect so. heh
@Fank: Well, my high school was small enough that pretty much everyone is a casual acquaintance. But still. If only my *friends* sent friend requests, it'd be less than a dozen people, if that. But how do you say no? Who knows, maybe everyone's changed! *snort*
27th November 2008 at 12:48 pm | permalink |Contrary to my expectations, I've found that most of my high school contemporaries grew up and are no longer assholes. I wouldn't go so far as to call them bright…
27th November 2008 at 1:46 pm | permalink |I've always made a point of only adding people to FarceBook that I actually know. What does piss me off is all those people from my work that try add me (Including senior management), but who can never be arsed to speak to me during the course of the working day. Maybe they're hoping that I make some inappropriate comment so that they can fire me.
27th November 2008 at 2:03 pm | permalink |you know i had the same thing happen to me on myspace. people who felt the need to make my high school years a living hell one day decided to send me a friend request. yeah, i'm going to sound really bitter, but umm if i wasn't good enough to socialize with then…why am i now? i'm still the same person..lol
27th November 2008 at 5:37 pm | permalink |@Kavan: See, most of them weren't assholes, per se. They just ignored me, and I mostly encouraged it. And I'm assuming the same thing will happen now. We'll all be in the same 'circle' and never talk. hehe
@Nick: There are three main groups of people on my list: Social network site contacts (orkut, flickr, multiply), Professional networking contacts (most of whom I've met, if not really *know*), and people I primarily know in real life (the smallest group, hehe). In the first two groups, knowing someone's name is considered a perfectly valid reason to add the as a friend … and even given that, there's only maybe 10-20 out of 100 friends who I don't recall either meeting in person or conversing with online.
Basically, I had no idea I knew so many people … or that so many people knew of me.
@shaniqua27: From what I've noticed, it's about the same as being in the same school … you're on each other's friend lists, but it's not like you actually *talk* to each other. hehe
27th November 2008 at 8:09 pm | permalink |random people contacting me. this is one of the reasons i do not use social networking sites.
27th November 2008 at 9:14 pm | permalink |I can imagine the schools up there wouldn't be of the biggest ones, ok. But how did you differentiate the cool from the uncool? The cool ones had the warmest outfit and the prettiest scarves and the cool boys had the biggest snowmobiles, Skidoo, Lynx or something and the uncool had to go skiing….with an old moth eaten leatherhat in minus thirty just to get to school?? Hehehehehe…
28th November 2008 at 12:31 pm | permalink |@bill: I actually went to school in Oregon. :-) But even still, I'm not sure how anyone got away with thinking they were so much cooler than anyone else. hehe
28th November 2008 at 2:06 pm | permalink |Especially considering that the people who consider themselves cool are usually anything but.
"I'm a rebel, fear me" … because I conform to standards of what a rebel should be.
28th November 2008 at 3:40 pm | permalink |Facebook = Facearse - why should anyone be bothered with such a waste of time.
The past is the past - and it comes back to haunt you often enough without you having to invite it in.
Is your life not full and complete enough as it is without the need to drag you school acquintances back into your life. And if they are the ones instigating the contact do you not wonder about their motives, is it really that they are interested in you or is it because a) they want to gloat about how much better they have done than you or b) because their lives are now so empty that they will try and grasp any kind of contact to actually have a friend.
I can only see looking back to school for friendship as the last resort for those whose lives are so filled with failure that they are now clutching at straws for the last hope that someone will dig them out of their mire.
1st December 2008 at 7:20 pm | permalink |@ian: If facebook had any real impact on my day to day life, I'd worry about motives. As it stands, three people from high school have added me to their friend list, and nobody's asked to borrow money yet. ;-) One of them, I was actually reasonably friendly with, and am happy to talk to again. Outside FB, really, my past doesn't really haunt me from anything more than the last five years (which is hardly the past, in the grand scheme of things).
Beyond that, I've actually got back in touch with a couple of people from years ago outside school, and it's a convenient repository of contacts from other social networking sites and forums I'm no longer active on.
1st December 2008 at 11:59 pm | permalink |