How curious do you get about people from your past?
 

I moved around a lot as a kid, sometimes I get curious what people I went to middle school (highschool, jobs, etc) are doing now. Sometimes people find me on myspace or even just find emails connected to me.

I haven't attended any reunions and most likely never will, but I am always curious to find out what happened to people. Maybe that is because I moved so much as a kid?

Would never cross my mind to investigate any of them.

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I never really cared much, I don't really think about the past all that much.

i havent attended any reunions nor will all. the entire class that i graduated with, not one of them amounted to shit.

i remember all of them in their college prep classes acting all snooty and now i get news from home that so and so is a checker at the supermarket and they have 4 kids to three diff women and i laugh cuz that fucker used to make fun of me for taking 4 art classes a day and skipping the rest of my senior year.

Bwahahahaha.

it's great.

:thumbsup

I was never in one place for 2 years at a time.... many times I moved 2 times a year in fact. Yes, my family sucked.

As a result, I can't even remember many of the friends I had here and there at younger ages. And the rest I lost track of long ago. But every once in a while I punch their name into a site like facebook to see if I can find them.

I wanted to see (only) my childhood friends again from my first school but I don't care that much anymore.. I'm happy with my own life and I know they are as well.

Funny you mentioned this as this past year I have managed to get in contact with many friends from my past. Unfortunately I found out that one of them took his own life last year. That was a huge downer on my search for people from my past but apart from that I have discovered old friends with new and exciting things to tell me about. Myspace was a huge help!
Have you actually found anyone that you were searching for?

i care i find it interesting

I've been hunted down by a few, and hunted down a few others. Most have been pretty positive experiences, I've had some great friends over my lifetime.

I always see the occasional person in the bars and catch up

I hunt them down and no one ever see's them again if I cant.......

Sorry about the suicide.

I was on Myspace for many months and people kept finding me. I just assumed that it was due to my having an online profile (working online for years, not just Myspace).

Then one day I realized that I could search by High-school and of course, found a good number of people. I only added one or two, but it was really interesting to see what people are up to these days.

One person was semi-famous in the gaming world.

But the other day, being bored from Holidays, I decided to search out middle school and low and behold, I actually recognized people. I was only there for 6th-8th, and it was a very small town, but I hardly recalled names (much like Stuart stated). But that didn't matter, I found more than a few people. It is amazing how much you remember when you look around, it sort of jogs the mind in ways you never expected.

restraining orders prevent me from searching for them

Most of them are dead, the rest can't remember who they are. :thumbsup

Gaming like gambling or RPGs or Halo?

Interesting to see how many webmasters moved around tons. I certainly did as a kid.

Quake I believe is the game. She was like the all time winner or something like that.

I moved a ton. I finally settled in around freshman year of High-School, which was nice. I have always viewed it as a great learning experience as it forced me to make new friends.

I lost touch with all of my friends from high school, etc. Before Myspace there was classmates.com, which help to put me in touch with some old friends I want to learn about - and a few that I didn't.

I've found 1 friend from the Army, and 1 from high school. Email them both regularly.

I was contacted about my 10 year high school reunion a while back. The guy that called me lived down the street from me. He was more my brother's friend than mine. I talked to him for a little while, but never went to the reunion. I was actually busy with work and couldn't, but probably wouldn't have anyway.

There are a few people from high school that I still hang out with and talk to today and am very close too. The rest I don't really care about.

One of my buddies went to our 10 years reunion and they handed out a book filled with info on all the people that attended. It had in it your biggest memory from high school and you best day since then. Most people's best day since then was getting married or having kids. One girl put a 2 day trip to Idaho as her best day (I live about 3 hours from Idaho) another guy put that he was married and had 3 kids but his best day was from a few years back when he killed a 5 point buck on opening day of hunting season. It was kind of sad.

You live in a small town?

Not laughing at you, I lived in a small town for a few years and many of those people are exactly the same : )

Too each their own, of course : )

I went to high school when there were no computers and we actually did what high school was for... getting high.

As a result I look up my graduation year and only see Sharon Chan. She knew that TRS 80 inside and out. I am suck old.

I went to high school when there were no computers and we actually did what high school was for... getting high.

As a result I look up my graduation year on Facebook and only see Sharon Chan. She knew that TRS 80 inside and out. I am suck old.

Philippines internet sucks.

I hardly ever think of them. They are the past for a reason.

I see them all the time, I still live in the town I grew up in and every weekend at the bar it's a reunion LOL! ;)

DH

I love Facebook, its like you can stalk what they are doing now without being intrusive.
WG

The town I grew up in had about 2,000 people and was kind of out of the way. It was mill town and a redneck town that had, literally, 10 bars and 9 churches for just 2,000 people.

Some of the people I went to school with stayed. Some moved away then moved back. I traveled and lived elsewhere for a while and now live about 15 miles from there. The town has changed a lot since I lived there. They put in a big highway and it has become a suburb now with nice houses, about 9K people and 3 starbucks.

hahahaha, it sounds like we went to the same school!

I have, and i've randomly looked people up on myspace. I find that once you have located one person that you went to school with, it's easy to find others. Be careful though, because sometimes the fond memories you might have of them from the past are better left unspoiled by the reality of today.

Same here, a lot of em work as sales associates..I feel bad for them..:(
I hope they don't call me..

There was a girl that I went to high school with that was very stuck up and super preppy. She wasn't mean to people that weren't in her little click, she just didn't acknowledge you existed unless she absolutely had to. Around the time of my 10th reunion (which I didn't go to as stated above) I was home for Thanksgiving and ran into her. We talked and ended up going out to dinner. She had gotten out of school, went to college, met a guy and got married at 20. Her parents wanted her to wait until she was out of school to get married. They told her she would get married, then get pregnant, drop out of school and never finish. She said they were wrong, got married and . . . got pregnant, dropped out and had two kids. She insisted on being a stay at home mom and then 5 years later he dumped her and they got divorced. So I meet her and she is working two jobs. One as a waitress, one as a cash register at a store because she has no education and no work experience and now has to actually pay her own way and survive like the rest of the world.

Most of the dinner was her explaining how hard her life was. I told her about living in Los Angeles, working in the movie business and having a lot of fun. It may sound mean, but it was kind of cool to see that the girl who had it all in high school was actually jealous of me.

I don´t give a fuck about them, I only know the 3/4 of them are fucking losers by now

Also, one of my best friends is a cop in the town I grew up in. He has arrested about 20% of our graduating class. It is fun to watch him get out the yearbook and point out who he has arrested and what crap some of them have turned into.

I used to go to reunions. there's one coming up next month. I'm skipping. I hang with and see the ones I want to and have learned that I won't be missing anything by skipping future reunions.

Here's a good story about someone from my past!

An EX GIRLFRIEND tracks me down on MySpace! Living well is the best revenge! LOL