I always thought I'd go to my ten year high school reunion. It was just something you do, and my high school friends and I all dreamily talked at graduation of meeting back up when we were grown-ups. But something happened. I have absolutely no desire to attend.
The reason? MySpace. Facebook. The New York Times claims that the advent of these websites — which allowed us to stay connected, and updated us on what our old classmates were doing — has caused alumni magazines to suffer.
Why read them when you can log on and confirm that the snobby cheerleader never made it out of your hometown and now works at a gas station? And furthermore, why go anywhere to be in the same room, when you can snoop on everyone from the comfort of your office chair?
I already know who's married, who has kids, where they all work. Curiosity = satisfied. What about you?

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I think facebook and myspace make me more interested in wanting to go to my high school reunion - I may know more or less what's going on with my old classmates but really just getting together with everyone again would be fun I think.
1I'm not friends with all my classmates on facebook so it would be interesting to see them again.
2I don't use facebook, but I still don't care about going to my reunion! I guess it's something you feel like you should do, but.....I still don't care to go!
3wow, its kinda sad. Now Romy and Michelle can't even lie about what they do. Everyone's been stalking everyone else online. really sick. I missed my 10 and don't want to go to any until I have a job that will really impress my classmates like an major office product invention. I don't use facebook and am undercover on myspace so I will be a mystery when and if I do resurface.
4yeah, my curiosity is satisfied too. i don't want to see any of them or their fertile uteruses.
5i went to my 10 yr and it was fun. i didn't want to go at first because i had kept in touch with the people that mattered to me. but social networks made it easier to plan our reunion because everyone was on there. we had fun actually laughing together and meeting people's spouses. you might be surprised how much fun you have, even if you did keep in touch.
6To be honest, I was never interested in going to class reunions, before or after seeing old classmates on facebook or myspace.
7I'm friends on facebook with people I'd want to see anyways, the reunion seems like less of a big event.
8I don't only see reunions as a means to see old friends I haven't seen in a while but I also see reunions as an oppurtunity to network with old classmates. You never know what kind of connections they've made and what that could mean to you in your career.
9I can't say I was all that eager to see people I have, for one reason or another, stopped being friends with over the years. Facebooking them seemed like a good idea, but after the original curiosity was satisfied, there was nothing to talk about. So for me, Facebook has just confirmed that a reunion would just be an awkward evening.
10Even tho I dont have face book and I'm not going to my reunion this summer, I totally concur.
This is basically why I dont have a myspace etc account. I prefer to remain a mystery
Not that I care what anyone else is doing or assume that anyone cares about me and is looking me up, but I'm just a really private person...
I'd just rather remain in people's memories how they remembered me from way back when, and vice versa with other people, which is why I dont ever look anyone up
11no, I still would want to go to my reunion, speaking to people face-to-face is different to me than over the internet.
12I could care less about my reunion. Did. Not. Like. High School.
13facebook isn't the same as seeing your old friends face to face.
14This is the only reason I really use Facebook- to keep track of old friends and coworkers. But I really am not interested in hanging out with them or anything.
15I wasn't online friends with my classmates when I went to my 10 year, so I definitely had to go back and laugh at their pathetic lives.
16Because of keeping up with classmates through FB or Myspace, I'm mostly curious to see people from high school who aren't on those sites and see where they wound up.
17I don't use Facebook, plus, I didn't care too much about my class to bother with reunion
but we'll see when my time comes
18I was always a lone-wolf type in high school, especially when I transferred to another school after my sophomore year was over.
19However, it's always fun to see what other people have been up to, especially when you don't have to travel to 'East you-know-what' to squelch your curiosity.
Thank goodness for technology
i live with my best friend from high school, the only one i've kept in contact with. i miss my old friend that i had from grade 7 to end of 12, though...we started college together but then i dropped out after a semester.
i'd go to find her, mostly. Mine is supposed to be this summer,
since i graduated in 1998...but i can't find out anything about it! many people from my high school moved to where i live now, but i haven't run into anyone.
20I'm with neko on this. Never been overly excited about reunions before or after facebook. I pretty much talk to all I need or want to from those days.
21I don't think I'll do the 13 hour flight to get back to the town where I went to high school for my high school reunion when the time comes. And I'm not on facebook, either. I have nothing against the people I went to high school with, and high school was okay to me especially compared to elementary school, it's just not something I'd get excited about. The people I really want to see are my old college buddies. Those were the people I seriously had the most fun with. We kind of scattered all over and lost touch after school.
22seeing it in real life isn't the same.
plus i have 13 facebook friends, and will delete the account (it was deactivated from january to present) once i am back to school from summer. i am keeping it during the summer it to exchange photos with two girls from my class.
i think maybe 1 person from my high school is on that list.
facebook ruins the element of surprise in those things.
23I can't wait for my next reunion! I went to a boarding school, and we were all a pretty close-knit group. I'm still friends with a lot of my high school friends (one of them was even the best man in my wedding), thanks to IM and things like Livejournal. I'm not going to my next reunion to find out who has kids and spouses -- I already know that stuff -- but to party with my high school friends like it's 1999. Except this time with more booze 'cause we're all legal.
24Lilpea I'm with you. I have never had a desire to go...ever.
25No, the fact that most of my classmates sucked affects my feelings about class reunions.
26I have some friends who I haven't seen or heard from in a long time and would like to know what they're up to. Not everyone is into Facebook and Myspace, you know.
27It has nothing to do with facebook - the people I care about, I know.
The other people, I guess it is interesting, fortunately our Alum magazine tells stories, way more interesting then everyday facebook stuff
28Honestly, I think I'd still look forward to going to a reunion because I just like meeting up with people who I haven't seen in awhile. Facebook can't really satisfy that for me
29funny you should ask, my friend msg'ed me and asked if I was going to go, I am still debating but honestly not really excited about like I could be
30I'm not on Facebook and I had no interest in going to one of my high school reunions.
31I have no interest in Facebook or reunions. Anyone I wanted to keep in contact with I did in RL.
32To be honest I probably would not have been interested in going anyway, but I'm probably in the minority on that one.
33the only reason i am somewhat interested in hs reunion is for the people I CAN'T find on facebook/myspace to wonder why don't they have one and is there some reason for it (like maybe there life sucks now and they don't want anyone to know it?) just a thought.
34Neither Facebook nor any other sites in which you can stay connected with old classmates has affected my feelings of class reunions or of old classmates, for that matter. The only thing that bothers me about the idea of a class reunion is the status of my career and my life. Not saying I need to be famous and rich, but I would like to feel a better sense of purpose in my life and happiness by the time my high school reunion comes around.
35even though you are updated on how your former peers, it would still be interesting to see them in person to see how much their personalities changed and what not
36I hate this aspect of facebook and myspace. I can't fake being successful. But I do like virtually snooping on my classmates. I have a sad obession of doing that, and I don't know why. Now I have no desire to go to my 10 year reunion. i already know what most everybody is doing.
37I also could care less regarding a class reunion. There were only 20 people in the class. I have made other friends and don't care what these people are doing. I am on facebook and still don't take to these people.
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