Comments on: Hey, Facebook: Thanks for giving me more than just memories

By: highschool girl

highschool girl — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0000

I just ran across this by googling high school crushes and it’s crazy but a very similar thing happened to me recently. We had both had interest but 10 years later we are both divorced and actually live in the same town as one another. We started spending time together and although, I’m not sure where this will lead… all of the thoughts about timing, crossroads, and the big cosmic picture are very much the same as yours. Good luck!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:28:32 +0000

I enjoyed your post – in the last year I have gone from “no way I’m ever getting on Facebook” to “I’ll be in bed in a second, dear – I just need to check on my Friends one more time…”

I have re-discovered childhood friends, my husband’s childhood friends and gotten to know friends, co-workers and relatives in a way that would never have been possible without Facebook.

As far as wondering “what if…?” – don’t spend too much time wondering or regretting. Just be grateful for what you have found now!

By: James McDonald

James McDonald — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:52:33 +0000

Wow, that e-mail from your ex’s wife must have come as a shock! It sounds like HE has some open issues that have been causing her some pain and frustration.

I agree completely about how time has leveled the playing field a bit. It’s funny, but getting a chance to communicate and interact with people now on such equal terms has helped me to resolve some feelings that I had carried over from my youth. I’ve come to realize that we’re all really the same underneath whatever behavioural or personality traits we may display at certain times in our lives and now that I have kids of my own High School and Middle School I see that in many cases these behaviours were coping mechanisms that they used to deal with their OWN fear and uncertainty.

I guess time does heal all wounds (or maybe it wounds all heals?).

By: Coloradolady

Coloradolady — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:45:47 +0000

I discovered facebook this past fall…or rather signed up for it. I had so many mixed feelings at first, well, still do. I had a email from an ex husband’s wife a week before Christmas…What the heck??? Was not pretty…it was pretty stressful in fact. I have not seen or heard from much less thought about in almost 25 years…UHHHHH.

But that being said, I have made connections with childhood friends from long ago, and am sad that all of this time has passed and we never knew where each other was…it has been a good avenue in that retrospect.

It is funny to me how the levels of “cool” seem to have melted away. People who thought they were so “in” are really like different people now…no matter…it is still sorta hard to forget the high school personalities that were not so nice and pick up again like that never happened….it is a bit strange! Enjoyed you post….

By: James McDonald

James McDonald — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:48:10 +0000

@Laura: The difference is that twenty years from now, their misunderstandings will still be haunting them in Google search results…

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:31:31 +0000

You just face the fact that such is life. Full of misunderstandings and things unsaid, especially in those bygone teen years. Imagine twenty years from now the kids of today, regretting the things they said and did, and how those things were interpreted or misinterpreted.