Facebook = Instant Reunion

So, my 10-year high school reunion is tomorrow.  10 years.  10 effing years since I finished high school.  10 years and I still don’t feel like an adult!  haha!  I still have winter, spring and summer breaks.  I don’t go into work until 10am-ish.  I get to joke around with college kids.  Is this what an adult is supposed do??  

Normally, the high school reunion is a time to catch up with old high school friends, see how fat the big bitch became and how many children the class slut ended up with.  You find out who ended up as the plastic surgeon and who is still working his/her high school job.  (Don’t say you don’t judge, when we all judge other people in some way!  And you KNOW that is the real purpose of high school reunions.) 

However, in the past 7 years or so, this handy dandy little social networking site has become pretty popular.  It goes by the name of Facebook.  Have you heard of it??  Anyway, with Facebook you can now find all the people you went to high school with (as long as they are cool and on FB too… yes, I am so cool, I call it FB rather than Faccebook) and become “friends” with them.  And I use the term “friends” very loosely.  Majority of the people I am “friends” with I never talk to.  After you become friends, the next step is to FB stalk them.  That means going through all 14 photo albums of their parties, trips to Europe, dogs, Christmas 2008, wedding, babies, etc.  You figure out what they have accomplished or not accomplished since high school.  There is a lot of information that you can get on one’s FB profile.  Seriously.  Sometimes more information than I really need, but I’ll still read it.  While looking at the pictures and all this information, you would do the same thing as you would at a physical reunion – judge! 

• Oooh he’s gained some weight
• The ugly ducking cleans up pretty well
• Still an asshole
• Wow, I can’t believe she became a teacher
• They still look the same. 
• Wow – talk about plastic surgery!  Almost looks as bad as Heidi Montag-Pratt!!
• Six kids??  Seriously???  Ever heard of birth control??
• How did he end up with a girl like her??

You get the point. (although this makes me wonder what people say about me!! haha!)

So if you already know what these people that you haven’t talked to in 10 years have done/are doing, then what’s the purpose of a reunion these days?  There really isn’t any curiosity anymore.  Will the reunion regress back to the high school days where everyone stays with their old cliques and only talks to the same people from way back in the day?  With the nerds and the jocks take shots together?  Will there be the “Hey, I’m really sorry about throwing you in your locker during high school.  I was an asshole back then but I have changed” conversation? 

I guess I will find out tomorrow… although Facebook has kinda taken some of the fun out of reunions.