…more like a hundred-billion hotdogs as Eddie Izzard would say. Late last year I searched Facebook for an old grade school friend of mine. Found him and reconnected - cool right? Well, today a different grade school friend posted a picture of our 6th grade class (yes I had funny hair, but it was 1982 ok?) …and Neil, my old buddy tagged me. Now, several hours later, I've re-connected with about a third of them. These are people who I have not seen, talked to, or heard about since 1982.
Now I'm not simply surprised that this has happened, I'm actually awe struck. We've all got our own lives, we live hundreds or thousands of miles apart and yet, as serendipity would have it, we're now re-connected. If we all lived in New York City this would have been a crazy coincidence. It wouldn't have been unheard of rather, just uncommon. Clearly however, Facebook has also enabled this kind of thing, and I'm sure that I/we aren't the only occurrence. In fact, I'm sure that Facebook has made this kind of thing more common.
Lastly, I'd like to point out (perhaps it's obvious) that today's elementary students will likely not go 28 years before they re-find their old friends. As a Gen-X kid, I was juxtaposed with analog technology and digital technology. My kids won't think that this even was all that special. They'd agree that it was cool, not much more …but I think that it's still awesome.
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