Over the weekend, I caved into peer pressure and joined Facebook. It wasn't necessarily that I was narcissistic and needed to be everywhere. It had more to do with me being able to connect with friends that I haven't seen in years. So, I signed up. And then I got the shock of my life...a lot of the people that I went to high school with and wanted to connect with again...I realized where a-holes and I had no want to talk with them at all. In fact, as I was browsing them, I started to get a little upset at a couple of the people when I saw their names and pictures. It REALLY got me mad. And so far, I have not asked a single person from my high school to be friends, and knowing some of them, I bet they were saying "This guy is a total hanger-on and he'll send us an friend invite" or "I'm going to wait and see if he wants to talk to us."
As far as I am concerned, they are all dead to me, and I'm in no way, shape or form ready to re-connect with them. On the flip side, I have connected with a couple of old friends that I haven't talked with in years and a lot of my family and my wife's family are on Facebook and it will be interesting to see how well I get to know them, now that I can talk with them.
Episode 153: Hot As Balls
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Episode 153: Hot As Balls – In the post-E3 show, we recap one of the most
boring E3’s in the history of MAHG. We then talk about the wonderful
Wonder Woma...
8 years ago
Then again, maybe they've changed and want to start anew. Or perhaps they feel some remorse for what they were like in high school and want to reach out and atone for their past lives.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe there's a kind of sadistic, "Hey, I remember getting under this guy's skin in high school; let's see if I still got it!" Or some kind of ego trip, where they befriend even people they only had the most tangential relationships with just to say they have thousands of facebook friends.
Or maybe it's some automated crap that just links them with previous classmates, and they don't know the friend request even went out.
I haven't had any desire to be on Facebook either. Part of it is, I'm not particularly proud of who I was. I'm a lot different now, I think my life is much improved, but the person I'm most afraid to connect with from my past (as if the typical high school bully isn't bad enough) is myself ...