I can't stand social networking websites but I reluctantly joined Facebook last month. I really didn't want to and since I have my own website, I didn't need to either. But I signed up because I just couldn't ignore the benefit of making it easier for old friends to find me. My Facebook page has almost every social feature turned off, and basically just contains a message from me to visit my personal website or LinkedIn page.

Yesterday, out of nowhere I got an email requesting to connect as a friend on Facebook. It was Scott, one of my very best friends from elementary school! Holy crap! I had gotten connection requests from old high school and college friends before, but I was pretty surprised to hear from such a good friend that I hadn't seen or heard from him since he moved away around 1983 (age 11) around 1985 (age 13). I accepted his invite and just finished sending him an email.

So many old memories. I dug out a childhood photo album which is literally falling apart and found this ancient photo from August of 1982.

Labels: flashback, friends