I had initially set out to blog about another topic until a thought hit me. I’m going to “pen” my 20 cents worth on my “experience” with social networking sites (like facebook) with a mild level of irritation and sarcasm.

So that’s my disclaimer (sort of).

Have you ever had people you know from long ago, whom you have sort of forgotten they existed and (vice versa) suddenly contacting you via some social networking sites (like facebook for example) and tried to add you as a friend?

Friends or rather, acquaintances  (whose existence one was aware of) from the good old school days but never once stopped to strike a decent conversation… How do you react when they suddenly “dig” you up on facebook or some other social networking sites and say, “Let’s catch up”?

I sometimes muse over this; the human race is a peculiar lot. Back in those miserable school days where most of us stick together (rarely by choice) for a good decade in almost the same class every year, we had ample opportunities to bond and foster some ties or relationships, but we did not.

So now that we have gotten on with our own busy lives, we suddenly “need” to catch up.

Being the skeptic that I’m infamously known to be, I almost instantly wonder if their impromptu “invasion” has got anything to do with them suddenly becoming insurance agents. Oh well.

I believe that there is probably quite a good reason why 10 years of being class or school mates together didn’t help foster whatever friendships that could have been and I don’t see how, 10 years later, trying to do it online would sudden make friends out of us.

I know I’m probably just being mean, but seriously, how do you reply when someone like that tells you, “We need to catch up?” How about, “Right, let’s keep us in each others’ radar and not talk or ignore each other like the good old days!”

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