I finally joined one of those networking sites a few months ago. Many of you are my friends there! However, I have been "found" by people from waaaaaaay in my past...some which is a good thing, like the boys who grew up on my street. There are others appearing, though, who are solidly part of my past and who I never thought I would be in contact with again. It has left me feeling strangely unsettled. Do I really need to know anything about the boy who broke my heart freshman year of high school? And there are people who remember me and I don't remember them. They see me on a mutual friend's page and then ask to be my friend as well. How is everyone else handling this?
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Musings on Social Networking
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CW, I don't know. I had wonderful friends from my past, but really would have trouble relating to them now. So many life experiences that are so different. I can only imagine that if someone from high school were to find me now, it would have no meaning. I'm not even that person anymore. Yeah, I sure had my heart broken in high school. But now, to hear from him, would mean nothing.
I guess it's just something that you have to sort out for yourself.
Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #
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My experience has been great! Besides the TDKers, I have met other people who have had polio--(I was in my 40's before I ever met someone else who had polio!) and I have reconnected with some gals from my high school. Now that has been a rather interesting experience. I was a loner in H.S., except for editing the school paper I was known only as "the kid who writes" and pretty much ignored. Now however, many of those who ignored me in HS have grown, matured and had a few life experiences that taught compassion, etc. I have become friends with people who made my HS days miserable. We all grow up, and change, and it has been a real joy to me to be able to let go of the past hurts and move on to be friends with these women. (I went to an all girl school, so don't have to deal with old boyfriends!) I love facebook for giving me that experience, and for helping me learn to forgive and move on.
Posted 2 years ago by rainingwolf #
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I have been kicked off Facebook three times for impersonating a cat.....so I don't play any more. I have never been contacted by people from my past....as for high school friends I know the one that I want to know and the rest I cannot remember for the life of me. Living in California has allowed me to disappear completely and I like it! Elizabeth
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LMAO cato......wow...they'll kick you off, but they let the girls who use that site to exploit themselves and others saying there's nothing unlawful. incredible. what the **** kind of trouble would you cause posing as a cat anyway? pee in everyone else's litterboxes? golden. just golden. literally. lol. i belong to orkut only because my husband and some cousins are there. i can keep an eye on them. i don't even use that often. i *used* to belong to facebook, hi5, tagged, bebo, myspace, and if roget what elese, just because i'd accept everyone's invites. i left those other sites, and frankly...i HATE the social networking sites. they are nothing but trouble breeding dirt pits. they soemtimes are put to good uses, but rarely. more often they are breeding grounds for trouble. the other problem is this - you and/or your friends might be connected to some dirty freak and not know it, and might spread the toruble around through their contacts because if they see your friends lists, they can find people to victimize in it. or, there are some who think those people are perfectly ok, which makes matters worse. the crazy freakish girl i met who tried to claim i stalked her and tried to have me arrested when i found out she was stalking me, and was (and still is) pretneding to love indian people so she can exploit them(she even married one.) she has friends who are also about as crazy as she is, and i've found many others who are similar. plus, you have the easy target paedophiles and everything else.....yuck. i like to make friends, but i like to make civil friends. we're best here. we may sometimes be looney here, but we're not creeps. we just share the dining hall at the funny farm. :)
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