There was a brief period when I was FB friends with a large percentage of my high school classmates. Then I started wondering why I added them, because other than a couple, we weren’t actually friends back then and I didn’t graduate with them since I home schooled my last two years so I could work full time. So, I deleted all but a few and have been happy not feeling like I should be keeping up with the Joneses ever since.
I was friends with one, but all she talked about was people in high school. Over forty years ago, different time, different dimension. I think she left Facebook. One say I noticed we weren’t friends any longer and her account was gone.
I’ve only kept in touch with one person from high school. We’re technically friends on Facebook, though I only have the account as a sort of internet dibs. As for the rest of 'em, I never gave a fuck about their lives back then and don’t forsee that changing any time soon.
Am I safe in assuming that “classmates” means the entire group of people that graduated in the same year or the same school? I just want to make sure we’re referring to the entire class at-large and not just people you were closer to.
I just recently learned on Facebook that one of the kids who bullied me back in high school died.
I don’t consider it to be a good thing because I’m sure that I was asking for it way back then. It was a bit sad because he was one of the kids who didn’t make good choices, mainly because his home life wasn’t as good as mine was. I think he may have had addiction problems as an adult, but died of some other disease.
@Kevin a guy who bullied me in elementary school is a successful (his stuff gets published and awards) architect in Chicago. I love architecture but his designs are tainted as a result.
Funny thing is we’ve run into each other as adults and of course he is completely clueless about our primary interactions back then.
I have a Facebook. I know I have friends on it. But really, my only interactions with Facebook are when I talk to my mom on the phone and she asks if I saw so-and-so’s major life event posted on there. The scary thing is my mom is friends with people I don’t remember from high school but who totally remember me. Already awkward, but it gets worse the more they chat with her.
@tinamarie1974 While I would rather see the food pics than a political post, I have discovered there is a real talent to taking a good photograph of food, and most people don’t have it. Even when it is a photo of a dish that I know is fantastic at the establishment in question, it rarely looks appetizing to me.
Looks like I’m in the minority (at least from the forums). I graduated with a class of 50 and we were all fairly close. I think all of my classmates who have facebook accounts (probably 90%) I follow there, and we even talk there frequently.
Eh, I did high school and after I graduated, kept in touch with the people I wanted to. My 30th reunion is next year and I have no interest in even going to it.
Growing up I went to a school in the suburbs that included 7th - 12th grades and had 800 kids in the entire school. After 9th grade I was forced to move to Northeast Philly, where my graduating class had 825 kids. I never considering many from that second school to be good friends. So my Facebook friends now include approximately 40 that I grew up with and 3 from the school I graduated from. One of those doesn’t ever log on, one was my prom date, the other was a girl I dated for a bit. I truly fucking hated that school…
@cinoclav Northeast High? I grew up in Northeast Philly, but I went to High School downtown. I’m so glad I never had to go to Northeast. Nobody I knew who went there liked it.
@sanspoint Far NE… George Washington. Though I worked near Northeast at the Lee’s Hoagie House in Roosevelt Mall. Oh, good times trying to pick up girls smelling like onions…
I moved away after graduation and as a result have only encountered a couple of my classmates since high school (probably 15-20 years later) On both occasions, I was the one that initiated the conversation and approached to say “hi” (in one case we were probably 600 miles from where we attended school and the other I was overseas and we were probably over 5,000 miles away, so I considered it at least a minor coincidence). I was expecting whatever artificial boundaries that kept us apart in school would not have prevented us from having a casual conversation, but in both cases, these former cheerleaders did recognize me, but glared at me in a “what makes you think you can talk to me?” manner. The latter hastily said “I have to go” even though we were waiting to get on the same plane which was scheduled to leave in 2 hours.
not on face book, no plans of getting on facebook, ever.
one “problem” with this, i’ve missed every class reunion we’ve had, because, even though i see classmates all the time, (work at a grocery store), they do all the planning on facebook.
I only found out about the 15 yr reunion a day or 2 beforehand, from a co worker who happened to be dating one of my classmates at the time. (and dang it, i had to work that night…)
Last time I got on the email list for a reunion, I was bombarded with forwarded political and religious crap. This was 2008, an election year. Out of 4 graduation classes, only 1 person wrote a personal note, just to say hi.
Finally got tired of the forwarded emails and starting researching them. Political? All lies and half truths. Religious? Where appropriate I’d quote Gandhi:
“I like your Jesus, I don’t like your Christians.”
After the reunion, I got word that they think “what happened to him? He’s so weird now?” I revel in that.
Oh gosh, I totally misread this last night. I thought it was what % of people from my HS were ON Facebook. Gosh golly gee … 20 total people out of a class of 300? Maybe? Dang. I need to read.
Class of about 240, so surprisingly more than 10%, given that we are all old people. More than have shown up at reunions, although I think our last reunion was 25. If I didn’t see them at a reunion, most I haven’t see since high school, so we are pretty much strangers who had some shared high school experiences.
I have had to unfollow a few, but I haven’t dropped them completely. I figure they could possibly become better people by seeing what I post.
Didn’t really have classmates, being homeschooled, and really don’t care much for most of the folk I knew in my high school years…
I’ve pissed a lot of them off. Don’t know why they won’t talk to me.
There was a brief period when I was FB friends with a large percentage of my high school classmates. Then I started wondering why I added them, because other than a couple, we weren’t actually friends back then and I didn’t graduate with them since I home schooled my last two years so I could work full time. So, I deleted all but a few and have been happy not feeling like I should be keeping up with the Joneses ever since.
I only liked about 1% of my high school classmates.
@SSteve Was that just the top 1%?
I was friends with one, but all she talked about was people in high school. Over forty years ago, different time, different dimension. I think she left Facebook. One say I noticed we weren’t friends any longer and her account was gone.
@lisaviolet you can bet she’s talking about you now!
@Kevin Let’s reflect on what an incredibly boring conversation that would be. laughing
I’ve only kept in touch with one person from high school. We’re technically friends on Facebook, though I only have the account as a sort of internet dibs. As for the rest of 'em, I never gave a fuck about their lives back then and don’t forsee that changing any time soon.
I have the meh.com and mediocre.com forums. Why would I need Facebook?!
Am I safe in assuming that “classmates” means the entire group of people that graduated in the same year or the same school? I just want to make sure we’re referring to the entire class at-large and not just people you were closer to.
Should be at the same school.
I just recently learned on Facebook that one of the kids who bullied me back in high school died.
I don’t consider it to be a good thing because I’m sure that I was asking for it way back then. It was a bit sad because he was one of the kids who didn’t make good choices, mainly because his home life wasn’t as good as mine was. I think he may have had addiction problems as an adult, but died of some other disease.
Bummer, thanks for remind me meh!
@Kevin a guy who bullied me in elementary school is a successful (his stuff gets published and awards) architect in Chicago. I love architecture but his designs are tainted as a result.
Funny thing is we’ve run into each other as adults and of course he is completely clueless about our primary interactions back then.
@Kevin I’m not sure if the goat should be blamed for this or not…
/giphy not sure
Do I have contacted them at all? It would be 0%.
I have a Facebook. I know I have friends on it. But really, my only interactions with Facebook are when I talk to my mom on the phone and she asks if I saw so-and-so’s major life event posted on there. The scary thing is my mom is friends with people I don’t remember from high school but who totally remember me. Already awkward, but it gets worse the more they chat with her.
Perhaps 3 or 4 out of 3k+. But it’s been a while since HS.
I don’t have Facebook - it’s all Political or pictures of peoples food. This forum is much better
@tinamarie1974 While I would rather see the food pics than a political post, I have discovered there is a real talent to taking a good photograph of food, and most people don’t have it. Even when it is a photo of a dish that I know is fantastic at the establishment in question, it rarely looks appetizing to me.
What’s Facebook?
Quibble with the break-points if you like but that chart looks like an age distribution.
Looks like I’m in the minority (at least from the forums). I graduated with a class of 50 and we were all fairly close. I think all of my classmates who have facebook accounts (probably 90%) I follow there, and we even talk there frequently.
Eh, I did high school and after I graduated, kept in touch with the people I wanted to. My 30th reunion is next year and I have no interest in even going to it.
My high school had about 7-800 students when I went.
I’m Facebook friends with one of them.
@sanspoint so some days 7 would attend and then other days 800 would attend? Must have been a scheduling nightmare!
Growing up I went to a school in the suburbs that included 7th - 12th grades and had 800 kids in the entire school. After 9th grade I was forced to move to Northeast Philly, where my graduating class had 825 kids. I never considering many from that second school to be good friends. So my Facebook friends now include approximately 40 that I grew up with and 3 from the school I graduated from. One of those doesn’t ever log on, one was my prom date, the other was a girl I dated for a bit. I truly fucking hated that school…
@cinoclav Northeast High? I grew up in Northeast Philly, but I went to High School downtown. I’m so glad I never had to go to Northeast. Nobody I knew who went there liked it.
@sanspoint Far NE… George Washington. Though I worked near Northeast at the Lee’s Hoagie House in Roosevelt Mall. Oh, good times trying to pick up girls smelling like onions…
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I moved away after graduation and as a result have only encountered a couple of my classmates since high school (probably 15-20 years later) On both occasions, I was the one that initiated the conversation and approached to say “hi” (in one case we were probably 600 miles from where we attended school and the other I was overseas and we were probably over 5,000 miles away, so I considered it at least a minor coincidence). I was expecting whatever artificial boundaries that kept us apart in school would not have prevented us from having a casual conversation, but in both cases, these former cheerleaders did recognize me, but glared at me in a “what makes you think you can talk to me?” manner. The latter hastily said “I have to go” even though we were waiting to get on the same plane which was scheduled to leave in 2 hours.
not on face book, no plans of getting on facebook, ever.
one “problem” with this, i’ve missed every class reunion we’ve had, because, even though i see classmates all the time, (work at a grocery store), they do all the planning on facebook.
I only found out about the 15 yr reunion a day or 2 beforehand, from a co worker who happened to be dating one of my classmates at the time. (and dang it, i had to work that night…)
Last time I got on the email list for a reunion, I was bombarded with forwarded political and religious crap. This was 2008, an election year. Out of 4 graduation classes, only 1 person wrote a personal note, just to say hi.
Finally got tired of the forwarded emails and starting researching them. Political? All lies and half truths. Religious? Where appropriate I’d quote Gandhi:
“I like your Jesus, I don’t like your Christians.”
After the reunion, I got word that they think “what happened to him? He’s so weird now?” I revel in that.
Oh gosh, I totally misread this last night. I thought it was what % of people from my HS were ON Facebook. Gosh golly gee … 20 total people out of a class of 300? Maybe? Dang. I need to read.
Class of about 240, so surprisingly more than 10%, given that we are all old people. More than have shown up at reunions, although I think our last reunion was 25. If I didn’t see them at a reunion, most I haven’t see since high school, so we are pretty much strangers who had some shared high school experiences.
I have had to unfollow a few, but I haven’t dropped them completely. I figure they could possibly become better people by seeing what I post.