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Facebook Making School Reunions Obsolete?
| Yes | |
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| No | |
| I've signed up, but I barely ever use it. |
The purpose of Facebook is indeed to stay current with events in friends' lives, as well as to meet new ones and make new contacts, which, to us, seems the perfect pregame for reunions. Get the formalities out of the way, so you can truly get down to business. Wall-to-wall conversations and status updates can't match actual face-to-face interaction, especially if you enjoy free-flowing discussions with former professors about the mysteries of the Universe.
Ana Martínez-Alemán, a Boston College professor and author, told the New York Times that universities' alumni offices may be wary of Facebook "because it may undermine some of their efforts," but this still seems a bit ridiculous to us. While there's certainly nothing wrong with spending your university years studying between the stacks, some of us weren't in a hurry to get out after four years. As such, we're inclined to think that those who prefer online get-togethers to actual ones may be trying to mask a tad bit of social ineptness with their proclivity for Facebook. We're also slightly suspicious that those folks' college careers may have gone something like this. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In fact, in retrospect, a little more time in the library probably would have served us well. [From: The New York Times]
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Subscribe to commentscoyote27Mar 31st 2009 11:34AM
Actually, I think it's the opposite -- Facebook might help reunions. I've not only reconnected with a bunch of my high school peers, but have seen that some of those living in the same region have had intercity get-togethers. I went to my 20th reunion, had a good time and I'm even more likely now to go to my 25th now that I've been in very friendly contact with many of the people with whom I grew up.
Maybe it's generational, too -- the generation that's grown up with e-mail, cell phones, IMs, texting and, now, Facebook never need lose contact with their friends. 25, 20, even 15 years ago, when you left for high school for college or left from college for the real world, unless you were in the same locale, you either had to write letters or run up a serious long distance bill to keep up with your school chums. Now, it's easy.
And I'm not so sure that's conducive to the broadening that should occur as you get older because you can stay in your circle of friends rather than widen it or create new circles.
toughguyMar 31st 2009 2:42PM
Facebook is for d-bags and losers. I don't care what anyone says. When you graduate, you move on. I have no interest in what someone is doing now, in ten minutes, or in ten years. Have any of you people ever heard of good old fashion phone calls? Or a letter? All you facebook junkies are just cheesy. I have 900 facebook friends! Sweet! How many real everyday friends do you have? Ya. Thought so. Facebook is for children. While you are chit chatting posting trash on your facebook, I will be out making money(lots) and friends the old fashion way. Facebook, lol. What a joke. Everyone on facebook is just wasting time. I like when you run into someone you haven't seen in a while. I hate that people you don't want to see somehow make there way into your life through facebook. Go do something real. Not this fake facebook garbage. I rest my peace. Fricken D-Bags!!
101Mar 31st 2009 3:36PM
TOUGHGUY U NEED TO GROW UP,,,TOO BAD U HAVE NO SOCIAL LIFE,,,,,,,