<p>Signing the yearbooks, I'm wondering...people write "We have to keep in touch!" etc. etc., but do you guys even talk to your old friends in high school? It would seem to me that the college life would be too distracting, and plus you'd make new friends.</p>
<p>Facebook is g-dsend in this regard... Heck, I've even friended people from elementary school!</p>
<p>I try to have as little contact with people from my high school as possible. The rest of them are stuck in the past and can't let go. I have no idea why, seeing as high school was complete and utter ****.</p>
<p>I didn't sign anyone's yearbook or ask anyone to sign mine, but I'm a misanthrope that way. There are a few I actually care to stay in touch with, if only sporadically, but most of them I'd honestly prefer never to see again.</p>
<p>A friend of mine from Berkeley kept in touch with a few friends. To be frank, keeping in touch with all the people u were simply friends with or on friendly terms with is near impossible and very difficult. However, my friend had 3-4 people from HS who were very close to him and it was those people he made an effort to KIT with and he did. With AIM, webcam, Facebook, and cell phones, doing it is very easy and realistic. On top of that, when visiting during breaks or during summer, you have a few friends u know you can call up and just ask to hang out. Obviously everyone else who has responded did not have very enjoyable HS experiences, but I plan on keeping in touch w/ my gf (obviously) and 3-4 of my really good guy friends. Other then that, if someone else makes an effort to keep in contact with me, I'd be happy to keep in contact with them as well and I woudl really look forward to meeting them again and ask them about their experiences and just get nostalgic about the good ole HS times</p>
<p>I'm 6 years out of HS and still keep in touch with a couple. I'm going to be a groomsman (if not best man since he doesn't have any brothers) for one of my friends from HS in May of next year. That guy and one other friend from HS are sure to stand up for me whenever I happened to get married too.</p>
<p>Facebook though really changed the way in which I kept in touch with people though. It didn't come out until my senior year of college, but I'm "friends" with a ton of people I went to HS, and even though it's not like I'm chatting with them daily or anything, I am able to keep tabs on what people are doing, who's getting married, or having kids and that sort of stuff. There would absolutely be no way to know that kind of stuff if it weren't for facebook.</p>
<p>In the end though, you'll keep close with the people who matter to you most.</p>
<p>Guess I am the odd man out, I still hang out with a lot of people from high school.</p>
<p>I didn't even buy a yearbook.</p>
<p>My friends from high school and I are still close, if not closer, than when we left two years ago. Every summer we hang out at least once a week if not more often. This goes not only for the guys who have graduated but also, to a lesser degree, to the guys who just graduated and still were at my HS. I saw a lot of them around town as a commuter and am still in a group with a few of them.</p>
<p>I hear you about elementary school friends. I've talked to a few for the first time in a decade in recent years. One of them, whom I last saw in 1996, has been my online penpal for two years now. We swap memos back and forth all the time.</p>
<p>Doesn't always have to happen on Facebook though. On Saturday I saw the mother of a guy I went to preschool with. I haven't seen this guy in like 15 years and she told me where he works, so I'll be paying him a long overdue visit this week sometime. She recognized my mother right away (we were all out for dinner, I had no idea she would be there). Also there was his younger sister, who was born the year we were classmates and is now in high school.</p>
<p>With most folks though, Facebook is a way to keep in touch when the grind of the school year is on. Many of the guys I went to school with are so busy with their clubs and whatnot that we can't call each other as much as we used to so we can all keep tabs on each other with Facebook.</p>
<p>I keep in touch with 2-3 students through AIM or Facebook.</p>
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I didn't even buy a yearbook.
I only got one because ours are free. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I tried to keep in touch with my best friends from high school, but they apparently didn't want to keep in touch with me. I only come home twice a year- a month for winter break and a few weeks for summer before doing internships or travel, but my friends seem to not be able to "find time" to hang out with me. I just got up to my summer apartment after spending 3 weeks at home, and I only saw one person. The rest were too busy hanging out with their other friends who they see every day at their own colleges.</p>
<p>Oh well. Talking to them is like being sucked back into middle school. They haven't changed at all and have no idea what the future holds for them besides partying at UGA.</p>
<p>my friend group (about 10 of us) still hang out whenever we're home. we all stayed in-state so we can visit occasionally during school. and through AIM and facebook, plus an online message-board thing we set up for ourselves, we talk to each other nearly every day.
the hardest thing is going to be when my family moves out of CA. when i go "home" it won't be where they are anymore... but i know we're good enough friends that i can crash at their houses for a while! :)</p>
<p>I keep in regular touch with my best friend and another really good friend from high school. That's about it. Every so often, I facebook with some people I was kinda friends with, or I'll see people who went to my high school around my campus and say hi how are you? but honestly, most of the people in my high school were as.sholes and I don't ever care to see many of them ever again.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your replies!</p>
<p>I talk to my friends from high school pretty regular. I talk to my best friend and really close friends almost every day through facebook or AIM. It's not hard to KIT if that is what you want to do.</p>
<p>One. Just one.</p>
<p>if i had any true friends in high school</p>
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<p>Same here, quite sad if I think about it but I also think the groups I hung out around with sufficed for what social need I had during those 4 years.</p>
<p>Stupid question, but how does Facebook differ from MySpace? (I have neither, so that's why I am asking.)</p>