<p>I'm contemplating if I should make a new Facebook account, keep the old account with high school friends, or simply stop using Facebook.</p>
<p>I like Facebook because I can keep in touch with friends and family. It's basically akin to texting (except I currently don't receive text). It's like email and seems natural to me. It seems now that less people make phone calls except for emergencies. For me it's a good way to estimate how many people are interested in events and arranging group projects for school.</p>
<p>Did you delete your Facebook account once you were in college? Why? At MSU it seems like everyone has a Facebook, only a minority of people don't it seems. </p>
<p>I don't understand people that don't have Facebook, because for me it's a good way to keep in touch and update people about significant events. I love the internet too much I guess.</p>
<p>It is not that serious.
You’re over-thinking way too much.
You don’t need to do what everyone else in college might (not) be doing.
If you want to keep using Facebook, then keep it. If you don’t want to continue using it, then delete it.</p>
<p>Don’t delete your high school friends just because you’re going to college. I am a junior and am still in touch with some of my high school friends over facebook and it is great to see how they are doing, and I have become good friends with people that went to my high school that I was not friends with when I started college. If you delete them I think you will regret it.</p>
<p>I suggest keeping the same facebook account and adding your college friends to it. It’s fun for me to see how people from from my college and people from my hs end up commenting on the same world events and just to see how the colleges your hs go to compare to yours. IIRC, there is a way to sort your facebook friends into groups if you really wnat to do so. Having two facebook profiles might cause confusion when somebody wants to add you.</p>
<p>I was actually planning to delete my profile, but this thread has me thinking… It isn’t important to me in the LEAST to keep up with the people from my past, because that’s what they are… in my past. Commenting back and forth on Facebook doesn’t change that; it only gives the illusion that I have friends that aren’t really still my friends. It is just one of the many facets of the internet that keeps me attracted to this solitary room, this sedimentary lifestyle, with this lifeless box in front of me. Imagine what humans look like to pets, just sitting in the same spot for hours, staring at a box and wiggling their fingers. x.x;</p>
<p>But on those rare occasions when I meet up with someone from my past, when my memory fails me, maybe having them as a friend on Facebook could save me the embarrassment of having to ask their name. “You don’t remember me? I used to sit with you at lunch for like 4 years straight… You told me all of your secrets… I watched you cry! I stayed with you when your friends ditched you!” Sorry, “Robbie,” I just don’t recall.</p>
<p>Eh… I think it’s more important to set an example and put online social networking to rest. After all, it’s basically like a drug. Under its influence, my mind is preoccupied and doesn’t pay attention to the reality that is this messed up world. For that reason, even if you are surrounded by people, if you’re staring at your phone, seeing what your friends are up to without actually having to confront them like socially normal humans do, oblivious to the crowd, you are still effectively intoxicated. This post sure turned into something weird. Bye :).</p>
<p>I can’t imagine wanting to “Delete” all my High School friends. It’s great your looking towards the future, but do you really want to forget all the memories and friendships you made in High School? I know they have shaped the person I am today, and during college- and hopefully long after- I will still be in touch with all the people I consider friends. You can’t just discard them like yesterday’s newspaper, they have made positive contributions to who you are, they have a vested interest in you. Just my opinion :)</p>
<p>You will change your mind quickly when someone from your high school gets into the same career field that you are interested in and can be used for networking.</p>
<p>I find the concept of deleting your facebook once you start college amusing, considering I didn’t create my facebook account until I was about to start college (it was back when you still needed a college email address to join).</p>
<p>I felt like it was basically assumed that everyone had facebook in college, and those who didn’t have one were in the minority. And events/parties/whatever were nearly always organized through facebook, so it was definitely useful.</p>
<p>I deleted those from HS who I determined never viewed me as good enough. I’m smarter than them(now at least, not so much back then), in better physical condition and my family has more wealth and quite frankly, I get a lot more girls now if that’s of any concern. I’ll always be the awkward nerd to those people. I’ll be the person who isn’t funny, who isn’t capable. Simply put, here and now that isn’t the case, I’ve grown and matured. I don’t need other’s negative energies dragging me down. If they want to be in my life, they know my name and I left them on myspace, they can find me. It’s been a year noone has. I don’t regret it one bit, these people who I wanted to be friends of never were my friends, they were associates, ones I’d have been better off with in my life. Those who always were there for me I’ve stayed in touch with.</p>
<p>This is truly an ironic question because about 3 years ago or so you could only have a facebook page if you were, currently, in college.</p>
<p>No nose-wiping high school kids allowed.</p>
<p>It was intended for college kids to keep up with old friends and basically to spread info about parties and events. So your “dilemma” is actually pretty funny as typically no one has had high school pages in the past. People created them once enrolled at a university.</p>
<p>That being said, why delete people?</p>
<p>Aren’t people still deriving their self-esteem from their friend count these days? ??</p>
I realize this and I don’t know why I didn’t mention it in my post. It’s the other reason for considering not deleting my profile. Even in that case, the person becomes my present when I use them for professional networking, although I would have to keep up with them in order to know that they’re pursuing a related career.
To be honest, I’ve already forgotten a LOT about high school. Most of my old friends have moved on, to the point that I don’t even keep in touch with them or see them when we’re both home on breaks. The friendships with the ones who are in my present have evolved so much that I can’t remember what they used to be like. Also, the handful of attempts at reunions through Facebook have ALL failed.</p>
<p>And honestly, it may be more beneficial to know I won’t be able to network through Facebook and be motivated to really make connections in person than to feel like Facebook might be my last hope. Again, I really need to be setting an example if I’m going to contribute to the movement to bring people back into reality, back to being active in the real world, back to meeting and talking to people in person, and back to paying attention to what is happening around them. I know more about what’s going on in Haiti than I do in my neighbors’ houses. I know more about Samantha, a girl I don’t even think I spoke to in high school, who feels the need to tell everyone on Facebook what she’s doing three times a night, than I do about my sister, who lives in my house.</p>