This weekend is my 20th high school reunion. As the planning has heated up, many of my former classmates and I have been connecting on Facebook.
We”ve been chatting back and forth, sharing old photos and catching up.
Essentially, the reunion has been rolling online for months. Saturday night at a hotel in Springfield, Mo., will just be the culmination.
But it got me to thinking about the impact Facebook has had on events like this.
Is there really a point to a reunion anymore?
Sure, it will be fun to catch up and see who is rounder in the middle and thinner on the top. But it”s not like my parent”s time where a 10- or 20-year reunion solved the mystery of what your former friends were up to.
Often, these are http://www.phpaide.com/forum.php?langue=fr now people I interact with every day. I”ve seen their kids grow up in photos, I hear about the highs and lows of their days and try not to miss a birthday or celebration.
So is that a good thing?
How can it not be? If anything these relationships, which once hung on by a tenuous thread during times apart have strengthened. When we see one another this week, we will be able to pick immediately up on conversations we were having the day before. Even when we”ve been apart, we”ve been able to share moments of sadness and moments of joy.
Facebook sometimes gets knocked for its size, inane games and omnipresence.
But if it”s able to take connections and make them at least last longer or, in special cases, deeper, then how can we not appreciate it as another triumph of the social web.
As far as all those former high schoolers go. I can”t wait to see you. But please, don”t tag me in any photos. It”s not pretty.