I'm On Facebook!

I just signed onto Facebook at the recommendation of a friend, and when I entered my college information . . . well, it was pretty scary. Facebook came up with classmates of mine, most of whom I haven't seen in twenty years and many of whom I hoped never to see again!

I have mixed feelings about this. I joined Facebook to interact with my current circle of friends, and I wanted no part of getting involved again with people from another time that I moved on from. But they're there, and now I can easily contact them - and they, conceivably, can contact me. Do you want to know how painful it is to sign on to a social networking site and get a direct connection with a girl from school you had a crush on but who blew you off, and you resolved never to have anything to do with her again . . . and you suddenly question whether or not you should still hold onto that grudge . . . just because she's on Facebook??

For a lark, I did put in a friend request to my best friend from college, along with requests to two other guys I remember fondly. (None of them have answered yet.) But as Steely Dan once sang, maybe I should never go back to my old school.