Reunion Time... in the World of Facebook!

By Jill Wagner

This weekend is my ten year Jericho High School reunion.  It should be nice to catch up with old friends and just see what people are doing with their lives....  Hard to believe it's been more than a decade since we all roamed the halls of Jericho High School without a care in the world (ok, except for SATS and what college we'd get into and all the other high school DRAMA that seemed incredibly important at the time!!!).  

Of course, as with any reunion, there are the usual questions that come to mind--What does everyone LOOK LIKE now?  Who's married?  Anyone have children?  Just what is the class valedictorian up to?  Is he the next Bill Gates? 

But this year, for better or worse, there probably won't be too many surprises.  That's because of this crazy thing called Facebook!  I admit, I'm addicted....

I'm sure, ten years ago, no one could have imagined that we'd actually be organizing our reunion ONLINE.  And that there would be "social networking sites" like Facebook, where we'd be able to post pictures and give details about what we're doing.. everything from our jobs, to our favorite music, to literally, what we are doing at that exact moment... aka "status updates"... "Jill is at work writing her blog."

With many of my old high school classmates, I've already "friended" them... and had the catch-up conversation online... "Wow you look great... can't believe you're a teacher at Jericho now!" 

Of course, there are the "hold outs" --- those who aren't on facebook. But I wonder if they got the memo that there's even a reunion coming up! 

Still, I am very excited to see everyone and actually talk face to face!  But ten years later, it just shows how much has really changed since high school.  I'll keep you all posted on how it goes.... 

Comments

[Pat]

like you Jill, i've also been bitten by the Facebook bug. just don't get bitten by the MySpace bug. too late for me on that one! :)~