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Your humble blogger in 1979
In 1979 I graduated from Kecoughtan High School in Hampton, Virginia. Even though I was a nerd and a rather obnoxious Jesus freak for most of my high school years, I still have very fond memories of my time at KHS. But as I’ve written before in this blog, I tend to do a pretty poor job at maintaining old friendships. Some of my high school friendships lasted through my college years, but by the time I was in grad school my life had pretty much moved beyond Hampton, which had become to my mind basically just “where my parents lived.” I did go back for my 10th anniversary reunion in 1989, but haven’t made a reunion since… by the time I got married in 1993, not a single high school friend was at the wedding — not because of bridges burned so much as the sheer inertia wrought by the passage of time.
Anyway, about a year or so ago I discovered that two networking sites: LinkedIn and FaceBook, seemed to be fertile ground for re-connecting with old friends. And of the two, FaceBook is the better. (more…)
