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Has anyone else fallen completely out of touch with the people they graduated highschool with? 20+ years later I know almost nothing about any of the 100+ folks in my class...
Adam Turetzky, Chris Baskind, ha3rvey (Ho)^3 and 14 other people liked this
I have gotten several postcards for my 20th high school anniversary this year, but I am not going. I honestly have no interest in seeing anyone who I went to high school with.
- Phil G
completely out of touch with all 43 of them -
- Noah Carter
I keep in touch with a grand total of 7 from me grade school.
- Prolific Programmer
For the most part, yes. But I have a little cadre of my close friends from high school that I keep up with on Facebook.
- Hutch Carpenter
Oh, and my graduating class was around 700 students.
- Phil G
I had a tight group of friends in high school. I can account for 1 IRL and a coupleon FB. Don't really talk to any of them anymore.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
i "graduated" in 2001 & dont talk to anyone i should've graduated with
- sam
from twhirl
I've been the one to e-mail out of the clear blue after 20 some-odd years,but that's about the extent of it. My classmates and I were always out of sync.
- Mark Forman
I have - but then I only really cared about 5 or so of them... and i am still int ouch with them all (except one who died) to varying degrees.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
My 20th is this year... No interest in going, but I do wish more of my classmates were on FB. A few are but their profiles are sparse. I'd like to know what they're up to and keep in touch, but I don't really need to hang out with everyone for a weekend at this point. I'll probably wish I'd gone when I hear who all was there, how much fun they had and all the rest of the gossip.
- Lisa L. Seifert
been 30 years for me, 10 years ago not in contact with any. Now friends with one because work in same industry with common interests and work with another.
- Nick Cowie
from twhirl
This is where Facebook comes in but even then most times you end up as just a trophy friend!
- Joe Dawson
My 20th was a couple years ago...I didn't go and I don't regret it.
- Chris Spencer
I have kept in touch on and off with a couple of HS buddies, but nothing regular. And I still remember my 10th high school reunion. The evening ranged from annoying to boring, except for one nicely memorable moment. The kindly woman who gave me a ride home (I was carless, staying for the weekend with my parents), said, "Adam, you're really cool. I wish I'd gotten to know you better in HS." But no, I'm not goin' to my 20th.
- Adam Lasnik
Same here, I left the island in 84 to go to university and have hardly been back since.
- Simon Bisson
highschool was not worth a fart. same with college. school is a bad idea to begin with. I wish I could say otherwise... but I guess that is why I am a Republican... I didn't learn shit there. had no friends... and I don't want my tax dollars going there
- Noah David Simon
"some are mathematicians, some are carpenters wives, though I know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives"
- Iain Baker
It is very easy to skip these when the highlight of the evening is learning who is in AA and who has a parole officer. I attended 5 and 15. Probably will wait until 40 now.
- Russellreno
I work with my best friend from HS, other than that... Not too many other than occasional 'hey' from people who have tracked me down on Facebook. I mostly lost touch when I left my hometown area for fun and adventure.
- Vince DeGeorge
I finished 5 years ago, and haven't stayed in touch with anyone...
- Rich
I have one good friend I see and talk to, but only a few times a year. Another two I keep in touch with maybe once a year. And a couple more I sorta keep on via their net activities. Otherwise, it is through accidental contact and my sisters' that know anything about anyone else.
- Michael W. May
yes for the most part, but then some sort of bubble they all joined facebook for some reason. (I joined yrs ago, no idea why)
- clarke thomas
YEP... everybody went their separate ways... spooky disconnect *JOKE* I was home-schooled during HS only - and my family is all over the globe
- Susan Beebe
I know I have and I've only been out of high school for 3 years. People go their separate ways location wise and interest wise.
- Corvida
More than 17 years out. I have very little contact with or knowledge about my around 100 classmates; though last week the one I do have contact with asked me to be his best man.
- Michael C. Harris
I actually keep in touch with more people from elementary school than high school. Only 200 people in my HS class and I've only spoken to 2 of them in 30 years. Still keep in touch with two guys who were a year ahead of me, but we knew each other from the neighborhood before attending HS.
- Kevin Shannon
No, I've always been in touch wit two or three of them, and several of us started looking each other up around our 20th reunion. Next year is the 30th, and I'm thinking a lot of us will meet up to create experiences which will eventually shame our children.
- Chris Baskind
I haven't talked to or seen any of my high school classmates in years. I graduated in '85, and we haven't had a single reunion. My old high school was shut down as part of a desegretation plan, but it was re-opened about 10 years later. On top of that, I moved to Dallas a week after college graduation, and I go back home only to see my family.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I didn't enjoy high school 23 years ago and am completely out of touch. really wouldn't be interested in getting in touch with anyone except maybe 1 or 2.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Came across a couple via Facebook, but I do not keep up with anyone really. I didn't have much love for high school (other than meeting my wife) and it did not hurt me to never look back when I left for college.
- JA Castillo
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If your going to check in on brightkite, how about giving an invite so we can try it too? ;-)~
- Chris Spencer
Really hope my friends at Twitter can get things back on track... I know they are trying hard. Sad to see comment threads move to friendfeed
Erin @queenofspain, shelisrael1, Andy Roberts and Igor The Troll יִצְחָק liked this
regardless of uptime, FF seems better for comments due to persistent context while twitter seems better for alerts.
- Deva Hazarika
twitter is not good for conversation, friend feed is just much better at threads
- karl
I don't see that as a bad thing at all. Twitter is only good for one-way outward-facing posts and mobile options. Sadly it never was, nor in its present state is - a good solution for starting and continuing conversations. One of the things that blows me away about FF is how once you contribute to the discussion, you begin to systematically outwardly integrate yourself, almost virally. Really well thought out. I feel that my comments/posts here have traction.
- Steve Isaacs
Friendfeed is a glorified twitter with comments. Friendfeed is a glorified facebook with comments. Friendfeed is addictive.
- Muthu Ramadoss
I Love FF, it Rocks!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Twitter may be the pioneer in this area but it feels like they are sinking fast. FF has not gone down once since I switched
- Chris Spencer
I love to see the comment threads moving to FriendFeed - it's much better for commenting!
- sebmos
I actually think Twitter is better at conversations because it is not "threaded". Replies are 1st class citizens.
- Jackson Miller
what hawk said
- paul terry walhus
from Alert Thingy
I don't think the conversation moved to FF because Twitter has been down; I think they're two different environments. FF is a cocktail party with many different conversations to circulate between. Twitter is a walk down the office hallway, hearing snippets of conversation and piping in occasionally.
- Carla Thompson
A cocktail party is a lot more fun than walking down the office hallway.
- Chris Spencer
QotD: What book are you currently reading? - http://www.booksiamreading.com/stefanh...
edythe, AJ Kohn and Ricardo Vidal liked this
I'm reading The Scar by China Mieville. it's very good. only 200 pages to go!
- Stefan Hayden
just started Lush Life by Richard Price, author of Clockers
- Adam Cohen
from twhirl
"Why I am not a Muslim" by Ibn Warraq.
- Ole Begemann
Kay Hooper's Chill of Fear & Janet Evanovich's Fearless Fourteen & re-reading Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow
- Yolanda
_The Satanic Verses_ by Salman Rushdie and _Mother Night_ by Kurt Vonnegut
- Kirk Kittell
"Code Complete" by Steve McConnel. Me, geek? Noooo.
- Daniel Bruce
"World War Z" ...gotta prepare for the inevitable zombie invasion!
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
I wanted to read World War Z but it didn't seem like it had a lot of zombie action in it... I don't think I like zombies enough to just read about the aftermath.
- Stefan Hayden
Beating the Street by Peter Lynch
- Adam Thorsen
Simple Genius by David Baldacci, it was a gift...
- George The Writer
World War Z has more zombie action than you could possibly ever need.
- Adam Thorsen
reading Sarah Lacy's Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good
- Rajiv Doshi
Julian Barnes - England England aaaand looking forward to the new Neal Stephenson
- Günther Mulder
from twhirl
"Your Brain: The Missing Manual" by Matthew MacDonald
- Sudar
@Adam Thorsen really? I'll have to give World War Z another look then! thanks!
- Stefan Hayden
Spook Country by William Gibson
- xero
World War Z is a fictional "documentary" recounting the nearly 10-year war to overcome a worldwide zombie infestation that spread from southeast Asia, told from the viewpoints of different people around the world. Fascinating because it details how particular facets of society collapsed and others shined because of the conflict.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Salt (Mark Kurlansky). Re-reading How to be Good (Nick Hornby) and Still Life with Woodpecker (Tom Robbins).
- lisa-k
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, and The Lives of the Great Composers Harold C. Schonberg...yup, I am a total dork.
- Erin
Almost finished reading 'The Reason for God' by Tim Keller.
- Larry Huffman
from fftogo
3/4 through "Genome" by Matt Ridley
- Ricardo Vidal
"My Life in France" by Julia Child, and someday I'll finish "Atlas Shrugged."
- Angela Bull
from twhirl
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson.
- Michael Hocter
Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, Book 2) by Jim Butcher (btw stefan - i loved the scar & all things china miéville)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Digital Outlook 2008 Report by Avenue A | Razorfish, (that and Alive by Piers Paul Read).
- Noah Carter
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham and Nim Chimpsky by Elizabeth Hess
- Mary Anne Davis
Currently I'm reading the latest Peter Hamilton, The Dreaming Void.
- Simon Bisson
from twhirl
"Restless" by William Boyd. Next up: "Fiskadoro" by Denis Johnson
- AJ Kohn
"The Mind Within the Net" by Manfred Spitzer
- J. McConnell
"Animal Behavior, 8th Ed.", by John Alcock. Next up: "Notes From a Small Island" by Bill Bryson; the reading queue is unmanageably long beyond that...
- grant fox
"The Nasty Bits" by Anthony Bourdain
- Michelle Martinez
"Bonk" and "Your Inner Fish"
- Maureen
"The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
- Pierre Lindenbaum
"The Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith (No I'm not a mormon,but trying to understand them better)
- proee
The Shameless Carnivore by Scott Gold
- Jean-Claude Bradley
It's an Old one... "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy
- Chris Spencer
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling http://www.amazon.com/s...
- edythe
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- Mark Forman
Fear, the Accuser - Dan Gillmor
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, - Rick Perlstein
- CJ
The new FriendFeed office
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Nimaa, Nick Mutton, John Lam and 152 other people liked this
Sure, go ahead. Make us all jealous.
- Louis Gray
people no longer sit directly across from each other?
- Zach Landes
Nice to see pool table maintained the box logo theme from yesterday :D
- Mark Forman
Hot dog you guys are doing this the right way!
- Tsega Dinka
Room to grow...nice. Congrats on the move, and good luck over there!
- Jim Stanger
What is the square footage?
- Caleb Elston
Where's my desk? ;)
- xero
xero... Didn't you see it stacked against the far wall? It's the one right under the 63 other empty desks...
- Ross Miller
Ok, I'm jalous. Now what? :)
- directeur
way to go guys, onwards and upwards! good luck! you haven't worked at a real startup unless there is a foozball table or a pool table. looks like you are legit :)
- Ivan Stegic
a malmo chair from ikea! the very same colour as mine!
- Giovanni De Stefano
I like that office, I wish mine was that nice!!
- Paul
I want a job ;-0~
- Chris Spencer
It seems you bought more tables and chairs to hire more hackers. I like how open your office is.
- seman
We actually didn't buy any tables or chairs - they were left here by the last company. We have a table/chair graveyard in the back as a consequence :)
- Bret Taylor
It looks exactly the same as the old office...
- Jini
Niiice..
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Spacious and Neat.. I like!
- Winston Teo
hey where's the ping pong table? - i like the *blue* pool table, matches blue FF logo colors!
- Susan Beebe
Are you looking for a 44 year-old telecommuting intern by any chance?
- Noah Carter
nice
- Joshua Smith
from twhirl
you know I was kinda expecting the dilbert like cubicles....
- BCK
what, no foosball?
- Jeremy Toeman
i want air hockey! can anyone second this? Still, without walls it's gotta get pretty loud. No privacy...
- Jacob Nahin
Jim, does this one have a massage room?
- Anne Bouey
When will you be hosting "Early Adopter Weekend?" ;-)
- Noah Carter
به این میگن آفیس2!!!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
and that's office 2.0!!!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
ok Air hockey with the Robotic arm :)-
- Peter Dawson
Drool
- Benjamin Golub
Sweet, very sweet. Pool is great, but I like office table tennis better.
- Phil G
pretty nice digs, much nicer than any where I have worked
- Rajiv Doshi
blue felt. Oh man. That is so the way to go. Nice!
- felix
Very nice! :)
- TommaSorchiotti
from twhirl
pretty nice...
- Sarath
The red chair is still my favorite, but it looks like I have more seats to try out.
- Amit Patel
On first thought - great Place! I like the open air about it... but on second thought I don't think I can work in such an open space. I just need my personal space.
- Parth Awasthi
Open enough, I like it ;)
- Chris Qie
Good Luck in the new space!
- Charlie Anzman
no way! cool.
- john conroy
Where's the beer fridge?
- Joe Dawson
Well done. Drywall is so passe'.
- MLx
Looks like a University College Student Union Building....
- David W
It's only the start for this great company!!
- Alex Hammer
Looks like your short a few balls.
- Steve C
What monitors do you guys use?
- Bartek Ciszkowski
sweet, but I'd put those pool cues in a cue holder or they will bend stored leaning against a wall...causing bad shots. also sunlight on pool table will cause fading, but you probably will just get a new table eventually w/ all the success! :)
- Pokai
sacrilege to say I think it looks pretty ugly?
- Adam
Where is Yodo?
- Sudha Jamthe
@Scobleizer I'd like to know who's got the best George Carlin clip to share. :)
Glenn Batuyong liked this
asked who has best George Carlin clip to share. Dave Winer just shared this: http://tinyurl.com/27nu7m (Religion is BS).
- Robert Scoble
Makes me wonder if good ol' George still feels the same way about religion...
- Chris Spencer
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