it is a small world after all...
Lately I have been getting some really random friend request on Facebook. And I'm not talking random like people I used to know in HS or JR high, I'm talking people I didn't know existed.
I check out their page thinking I might know them by some change and just can't remember, but when I see their profile picture, it is confirmed, I do not know them. I even go as far as checking if we have a friend or two in common. We don't. I click ignore.
But by some odd chance I received a random request from a girl I used to know in elementary school. We didn't talk much, but I added her anyway.
I did what I normally do, checked out her page, pictures and friends. Come to find out that she is friends with someone I met in JR high. So I clicked on his page wondering how they knew each other when I saw he was in a relationship with Breanna, another girl I went to elementary school with. I believe she is a year younger than me. BTW she was dating Cody, a good friend of mine in grade school. Guess they broke up.
Point is, all these people I didn't know knew each other kind of made a full circle. By knowing someone that knew someone else and now they are friends. Weird huh?
It got me thinking about the people that I went to school with. I wondered what it would be like if we still talked. I mean I had some really "good" friends back then.
From time to time you have to wonder about these people. I guess that's the beauty of FB you can reconnect with people. Even if you were not friends way back. We all have to grow up sometime, right?
Then I had to ask myself if I really cared if I was friends with people I haven't talked to in years? Answer: reconnecting with people from my past was not the first thing on my mind when I entered the Facebook world. In fact it was because of the cool Canadians I met two summers ago in Italy that I created one. Purely to stay connected with these new people I met, for future people I meet and family. The though of having friends from years ago never crossed my mind and I have to admit it seems kind of pointless.
There was obviously a reason we stopped talking in the first place whether it be because we went to different schools or just stopped hanging out. So why be "friends" on FB.
Think about it, are you really going to talk? Okay maybe you'll say what's up on their wall. Throw a "how are you?" out there, but more than likely it will stop there. Then ask, do you friend these people or accept them just to say, 'oh yeah I remember that person, they are my friend on FB,' or merely to have as many friends as possible?
For me it none of the above. To be honest I rarely ever send out friend requests. And if I do it is to a family member or someone who can't find me.
Point I'm trying to make here is FB may be a way to reconnect with people, but it is really worth taking a stroll down memory lane with people you don't really know anymore?
Sammie♥
I check out their page thinking I might know them by some change and just can't remember, but when I see their profile picture, it is confirmed, I do not know them. I even go as far as checking if we have a friend or two in common. We don't. I click ignore.
But by some odd chance I received a random request from a girl I used to know in elementary school. We didn't talk much, but I added her anyway.
I did what I normally do, checked out her page, pictures and friends. Come to find out that she is friends with someone I met in JR high. So I clicked on his page wondering how they knew each other when I saw he was in a relationship with Breanna, another girl I went to elementary school with. I believe she is a year younger than me. BTW she was dating Cody, a good friend of mine in grade school. Guess they broke up.
Point is, all these people I didn't know knew each other kind of made a full circle. By knowing someone that knew someone else and now they are friends. Weird huh?
It got me thinking about the people that I went to school with. I wondered what it would be like if we still talked. I mean I had some really "good" friends back then.
From time to time you have to wonder about these people. I guess that's the beauty of FB you can reconnect with people. Even if you were not friends way back. We all have to grow up sometime, right?
Then I had to ask myself if I really cared if I was friends with people I haven't talked to in years? Answer: reconnecting with people from my past was not the first thing on my mind when I entered the Facebook world. In fact it was because of the cool Canadians I met two summers ago in Italy that I created one. Purely to stay connected with these new people I met, for future people I meet and family. The though of having friends from years ago never crossed my mind and I have to admit it seems kind of pointless.
There was obviously a reason we stopped talking in the first place whether it be because we went to different schools or just stopped hanging out. So why be "friends" on FB.
Think about it, are you really going to talk? Okay maybe you'll say what's up on their wall. Throw a "how are you?" out there, but more than likely it will stop there. Then ask, do you friend these people or accept them just to say, 'oh yeah I remember that person, they are my friend on FB,' or merely to have as many friends as possible?
For me it none of the above. To be honest I rarely ever send out friend requests. And if I do it is to a family member or someone who can't find me.
Point I'm trying to make here is FB may be a way to reconnect with people, but it is really worth taking a stroll down memory lane with people you don't really know anymore?
Sammie♥
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