Have social networking site such as Myspace and Facebook rendered the high school class reunion obsolete?
I’ve been out of high school for ten years now, and my reunion is coming up next month. However, with the advent of Facebook and Myspace, I keep in contact with the people I want to keep in contact with (and the few who are not on either site I see on a monthly basis anyway). With that premise in mind, with social networking sites all the rage, are high school class reunions obsolete?
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I think they are helping to make reunions obsolete. Besides, on these networking sites you can describe yourself any way you want. If you were the fat girl who always wanted to be the pretty, popular girl you can post some photoshopped pics of yourself. You can say that you are a successful lawyer, doctor, banker, businessperson, the list goes on. You can show a picture of yourself with some random hot girl and say that’s your wife and put up pictures of your nieces and nephews and say they’re your beautiful children. In other words, these sites offer the ability to bluff and raise the stakes of seeing one another in person. So yes, I think they are helping to make reunions obsolete.
I also think that people don’t tend to come back home to where they went to high school anymore. People don’t lay down roots anymore and switch jobs more frequently. I’m not buying a plane ticket to go to my high school reunion being held at the Elks lodge.
absoulutely not!
a reunion no way compares to myspace or facebook.
However they both will tell you lies about themselves.
that is the reunion and myspace
Facebook makes ‘mini high school reunions’ that much more accessible – you know, the ones where people haven’t left the town they went to high school in, haven’t made any new friends, married someone from high school and when they join facebook they’re like ‘yay I can go back to my glory days!’. I can’t understand why someone would want to relive ages 14-18 at 30-something years old anyway.
Good thing you’re keeping in touch with the few from high school that are your real friends, otherwise you might be looked at as one of those freaks that want to so desperately go back!
I get requests all the time on facebook to attend some lame party where the only invitees are those that I knew from high school!? It’s really lame….facebook is so crappy now
not necessarily. they’ll allow to see people you don’t otherwise keep in touch with.
i guess it depends how you want to look at it. if you want to see only a select group of people, then myspace is fine.
if you want to see everybody, then a reunion is good.