<p>And for how long did you maintain it after you started college?
If you don't, how do you have a personal life at home, not just talking to people at work or volunteering once a week?</p>
<p>I still see my friends from high school (I'm a rising college junior). Of course it's more complicated than it used to be, especially since many of us are working away from home for most of the summer, but all of us are home for at least a few days at the beginning and end of summer.</p>
<p>lol the myth that you will only remain in contact with one friend of every five is so true! i only talk to a few of the people i knew in high school. however, thanks to myspace (i hate) and facebook (i love), you can still talk to people but even that doesnt last long.</p>
<p>I mainly talk to two of my high school friends, my two best friends. I didn't really have THAT many friends anyway, probably about 6-7 who I'd consider really good friends. I see people from my high school every now and then and I speak, you know, "hey, how are you? oh, I'm good too, see ya!" but I don't like, keep in touch with them (and some people from hs I'd be ok if I never saw them again...). I'm planning a baby shower for one of my other friends (not the 2 I mainly keep in touch with) and I ran into this head-on because I had to figure out how to contact all these people from school that I haven't talked to in a year.</p>
<p>I randomly message a few on facebook - other than that i only talk to the ones I was really close to</p>
<p>its not a myth - you will lose touch with most people but you'll find fun new friends so c'est la vie</p>
<p>That's true unless you're going to a commuter school, but besides that I admit it I didn't have that many friends to begin with in high school. In other words who cares about popularity, it's all about finding people that truly care about YOU.</p>
<p>instant messenger is an essential for staying in touch. The number of friends I regularly keep in touch with has deminished as more time progresses.. I'm now a graduating senior & regularly keep in touch with 2/9 of my high school friends. I still talk to a few more of them maybe once every other month or so.. and catch up slightly.. but not that often. If it's summer break I'll try to call them up & arrange a get together. Some of them never come back for breaks so I just don't see them.. & I don't have a home in that area anymore so that makes things more difficult for me.</p>
<p>You definitely find fun new friends in college, like dima said. My friends now are completely different from my high school friends: most of my friends in hs (except my 2 best friends) were more "friends of convenience" than anything really, the people you talk to because they're there... you don't actually have that much in common (they're all super hardcore Christians, I'm agnostic, etc). My friends now, we are actually interested in alot of the same things, like we all met because of swing dancing so there's that, plus we all like to party and have some drinks (which most of the ppl I knew in hs would NEVER do), and our personalities actually match up, most of us believe the same things, etc.</p>
<p>My best friend at college went to my high school. Most of my closest friends who graduated with me have all stayed in touch with each other (some are clustered at other schools) so we all have communicated really well. There were seven of us who have always been really close and we still are.</p>
<p>I don't know about any of you, but I've stayed close to some of my underclassmen friends from high school. I see one of them every week since we're in a group together. I've talked to several of them on a regular basis, including one who I honestly think I've grown closer to even though we don't see each other every day any more.</p>
<p>I guess its different if youre going to college with people from your high school. I was the only one from my high school to come down to my college.</p>
<p>i moved out of state and pretty much lost any contact with the three people i hanged around in HS -- we weren't that close really -- my family moved to another state at the end of my 9th grade and the new HS had very tightly knit groups of people -- it was a small town where most people were employed by the government so very few have moved in or out of town -- most kids there knew each other from like elementary school (there were only 2 elementaries there) -- so i never did really become good friends with anyone there</p>
<p>but i still keep on touch with someone from my second HS, the one I did not graduate from -- which is kinda strange because we weren't very close friends but ended up keeping in touch for a number of years now -- but we just always have something to talk about</p>
<p>I'm a HS graduating senior and I like the sound of this... I don't plan on keeping in contact with more that 5 people from my high school. In fact I plan on cutting off communications with 90% of my class as soon as I leave graduation. Does anyone think this is a little weird?</p>
<p>PS-- A while back i was thinking i a though: How many people after 4 years of College and when they are finally graduating go to their HS friends' college graduation? I don't ever recall hearing any one talking about going back to their old friends graduation. This thought made me think: "Well if I'm not going to know any of my HS friends in 4 years why delay the inevitable?"</p>
<p>GooPv no. I did that even before graduation (graduating on June 20th...so far away =( ). Like AUlostchick said, most of my friends were friend of convenience. Others I've never talked to anyway. My AIM buddylist shrunk from 50 something to 12.</p>
<p>yeah i'm a hs graduating senior and i think im cutting ties with most of my class. almost all of my friends are going to the other side of the country (while im staying 15 mins away), so if im lucky ill see them during winter/summer. or they'll become "online buddies". two of my good friends are staying in our home city, so i guess those will be the ones i keep in closest contact with. two people ill see "regularly". yep.</p>
<p>My freshmen year roommate talked to his high school friends a lot (on AIM), to the point that I finally realize he isn't interested in making any new friends. Needless to say he was a very boring roommate who rejected every single offer of going out to have fun when invited. I hate stereotypes, but incidentally he fell into the quiet computer science guy that stays in front of the computer most of the day (and night).</p>
<p>I'm still in regular touch with three friends from before college (one who I've known forever from a camp one summer and two from HS). by regular I mean I talk to all of them either on the phone or on aim at least once a week. I'm also still on friendly facebook terms with about 3 or 4 other friends. If they're important to you, you won't lose touch.</p>
<p>My buddy list went from 210 in high school to 42 right now. Of which...7 are from high school. Needless to say, I don't miss too many of the people. I DO miss the memories, but looking back everything was filled with drama...and I didn't hang out with TOO many girls..</p>
<p>Only the ones I could find on facebook. Most of my HS friends went away for college.</p>
<p>The memories were great but most of my <em>friends</em> weren't really friends. I frequently talk to probably 5 people from my high school and then get together sometime each semester with about 12 others.</p>
<p>I'm hoping to keep in touch with my really good friends (around 5) and screwing the other how ever many....</p>