See those two cute kids in the photo over there to the right? (Well, at least one of them is cute.) That’s me and Kathy, my date to the Junior Prom back in 1987. (Note the big hair and gold.) So, why am I posting this photo now? Well, it’s all Facebook’s fault.
Last week I received a friend invite from a "Kathy" who’s last name I did not recognize. In the message she gave her maiden name and I instantly placed her despite having not spoken to her for more than 20 years. (Back at the prom she was currently dating my best friend who went to a different high school and she was a year behind me so I invited her to my prom.) How else could this have happened except through the current wonders of online social networking.
When I asked how she found me she said "your grad class". Here’s where it starts to get weird. Having been a trainer for the past 14 years and having also taught in the University of Denver’s grad school, I immediately became confused. "Through DU?" I asked. What she’d meant was my "graduating class". She has searched through Facebook’s page for our high school and looked for folks she new who she might have gone to school with. And, there I was found.
Suddenly I find myself using Facebook for more than just playing Zombies and Scrabulous. We’ve been "e-maliing" back and forth for a week now still busily catching up. A lot has happened to the both of us in the past 20 years but I have quickly learned that Kathy is still the wonderful person that I remember.
Not to get too into what I think about my high school years but I’ve only regularly spoken to one person from back then. Most of that was intentional, some of it was not. That was true until this past week. I’m so happy that this giant heart and smile has come back into my life.
It is amazing how people can easily find each other now through all the social networking and online reunion sites. I was able to reconnect with one of my good friends from high school in a similar way… her mom was on a social networking site and came across my name… the mom emailed me, and the rest is history… I now stay in touch with one of my long lost friends from high school, who lives far far away!
-Talking Books Librarian
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I was an exchange student for a year in high school and reconnected with my French boyfriend after 16 years of lost contact. He lives in Seoul, Korea, now. Pretty amazing how this stuff works.