Reconnecting

Social media sites like MySpace and Facebook can be a great waste of time. You can spend hours updating your site, responding to comments, playing useless games, answering lame surveys and checking status updates. But one of the benefits of these sites is that they make it easy to stay in touch with people. They offer a “one-to-many” communications tool. They also provide a way to reconnect with old friends.

In recent weeks I’ve reconnected to friends with whom I haven’t spoken in over 20 years. It’s really cool to be able to bridge the gap and find out who they’ve become, where they live, and how many kids they have. Some have changed a lot; others not so much.

I met up with a few friends tonight who still live in the area. We went to dinner; I thought we’d catch up and be home about an hour later. I was wrong — our dinner ended just shy of the 3 hour mark. Even though we’re all older and much has changed, it just seemed like “old times”. We had so much to talk about — that made it hard to stop and walk away.

It’s funny how you can lose touch with people over time, but you still have a unique bond because of the experiences you shared when you were together. I guess it’s one thing time can’t change.

Dinner = $11. 43

Sodas = $1.95

Reconnecting with old friends = priceless