Social Networks Destroying the surprising effects that a high school reunion is supposed to have?

yeah, high school reunions sound so fun, and something i would want to attend. But now with things like facebook and myspace there will really be not very many surprises, you will already know how most people are doing and their career choices etc.

I’ve never wanted to go to my high school reunions, and have skipped them all. My feeling is this: if I was meant to stay in touch with someone, we would have. I neither have any curiosity whatsoever regarding the outcomes of other members of my high school class, nor a strong desire to demonstrate my outcome to them. I doubt highly that I will ever attend a single one.

I went to my 5 year reunion 15 years ago. That pretty much was enough for me.

As shilolo said: If I was meant to have an ongoing relationship with any one of them, I would have – and did, with many of them for years. I still see this group of four HS friends about once a year.

I can understand everyone’s views. I think high school reunions have more of an impact on people who have moved out of town or have no social networks.

High school reunions are sort of like those braggy christmas letters. Social networks let me hang out with people from home room. We weren’t really friends then, but we saw each other every M-F morning for 4 years. It’s nice to be able to have a quick chat every now and then about things that happened, or people we bump into.

I skipped my last high school reunion, but definitely agree that social networking sites have changed the dynamic dramatically. In fact, I feel like because of Facebook, specifically, I’m currently experiencing a somewhat reluctant electronic reunion with everyone who ever went to my high school or recognizes my name.

Now, with instant updates, daily picture changes and all of the other business Facebook’s got going on, I’m more apt to see someone at the reunion and be like ”Uh….so….I saw you got stuck in the Dallas Airport last week. Hey, did your daughter’s rash ever clear up?”

I do think it has facilitated better connections in some ways though. I think that because the catching up has been done already, we’re more likely to attend and just hang out with one another. The “suprise” factor seems to be gone.