High School is an
interesting place, you don’t really learn a ton, the whole construction behind
High School is that you learn how to learn, you learn the social dramas you’re
going to face for the rest of your life and basically in a general sense learn
who you are and where you fit in this world. This transformation takes time and
there is a very real distinct evolution that occurs in each and every student,
even those that seem to not have evolved at all have done so, everyone takes
something away from High School, some love it, some hate it, but in the end one
thing is true for everyone, High School was a little preview of what you would
face for the rest of your life.
This
introduction to High School is important, the fact that through your four years you experience a bit of the world at large is a big deal and the people
you share those experiences with become a large deal in your life later on.
It’s not like you talk to everyone you knew in your class or that you
particularly care about any of them but there is a thread there, a chord that
keeps you all in touch and thus the High School reunions came about as a
logical conclusion to this ever occurring phenomenon. High School reunions have
always been a bit silly, there are always some people that care a ton about
them and some people that could care less about them. There are those that have
grown in stature and as people, and those that have wrecked their lives and
clearly need help. In short it feels like you’re back in High School again.
The Concept
behind a reunion was simple, after graduation the majority of your High School
class will disperse and you won’t talk to them again, some will stick around
and you’ll see them from time to time, and if you’re lucky like myself then
you’ll remain close friends with your best friends from High School even years
after graduation. The fact is that reunions where created so that people in the
class could come together and catch up on life, where they could be whoever
they choose to be and either mock the event or have fun with the event, the
whole point was that you haven’t heard news about one another in years and want
to catch up now. Even though High School Reunions are a good idea they
can’t be executed anymore, they no longer are relevant, I predict that reunions will soon become a thing of
the past.
The concept
here is simple actually, reunions will soon be a thing of the past because of
one life changing bit of advancement, Facebook. Social Networking has made the
whole point of High School reunions become obsolete, everyone is connected to
everyone and by the click of a button you can find out what they are doing with
their lives, who they are married to, what job they have, where they studied,
and if you feel like you can even have a conversation with them and learn all
the grimy details about their personal life or marriage, the world got way
small and reunions began to be unnecessary. Here’s something that would not
surprise me one bit, Facebook High School reunions, I’ll be very surprised if
this is not already happening on the site, it’s just the logical step, it’s
convenient, simple, cheap and you only engage the people you really feel like
engaging, sounds like a dream really.
High School reunions
are kind of a drag, yeah there’s the element of seeing some people you really
love and have missed over the years, yeah there’s the element of being able to
catch up and have spouses being introduced to you and so forth but with
Facebook in the picture all this meet and greet becomes redundant, someone will
go “hey I just had a kid” and you’ll be thinking “yeah I know, you only posted
50 freaking pictures and blew up my feed with the little guy”, it just ruins
the whole point, thus I propose the prediction that in coming generations
reunions will be a thing of the past, because, well, they are a thing of the
past, they are outdated and silly, specially with us all now being friends with
each other and connected through social networking, the point is just not there
anymore.
Go go social
networking, destroying bad traditions and allowing us to stay close with people
we love and those we don’t all in one place in harmony. Hope you had a
fantastic weekend and that this week might be awesome.
Love from your
humble blogger,
