Meta: facebook and old acquaintances

[redbird]

I am not adding people just because I recognize their names, especially when all I can call up using the name is that they went to college with me. I am, for the moment, adding people I remember being friendly with in high school, even if I can recall no specifics.

I haven't decided what to do about the person who, on first glance, I had no context for, and on a closer look I think is my second cousin (who changed her first name some years ago, and appears to be using her husband's surname, and I don't think I'd known she was married, so my immediate thought was "who on earth is Sarah Charles?"). There are cousins I would add if they turned up, because I like them, even if we're not close these days. She's, well, more distant than that.

I could have a lot of "friends" on facebook, but all it would prove is that I'm 45 and have an unusual enough name that a quick search on it is useful.

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[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

For me it's been pretty interesting to see different sides of them on Facebook as well, or at least more sides of them and cute stuff (meaning pictures and silly status updates).