I'm getting together with old HS people who contacted me though Facebook

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I started a Facebook acct a while ago and forgot about. I restarted it when my best friend requested me as a friend.

Since then I'm getting at least two friend requests from former HS friends per week. At first I just added them. But then I got re-aquainted with a few people.

The 14th is the day we get together. I booked a hotel room but I can't really afford it ($120). I DO want to go, but I can't really afford the hotel room.

Would it be in poor taste to ask if people could "put me up?" I don't want to be a bother, but $120 is a lot!


ok cheapskates-- give me ideas!!!!

[PapaBear]

I don't think it will be in poor taste at all.

BTW... I posted pics from a New Years party back in 1991, and the facebook friends that were there LOVED them. They all live around the country now, but the girl who had the original party is going to have another one when she visits her parents here for a local festival in May. She's already invited me and most of the others. Should be pretty cool.

[Death Metal Moe]

If you're still friendly enough with them to even ask them a favor like that I don't think it should be a problem.

If you don't really know any of them, it's gonna be a little weird.

Is if far? Just go there and go home, unless you wanted to drink. Then I get why you'd want to stay somewhere.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

It's not too far-- about 50 miles from my apt in Oyster Bay, LI.

I'd drive home, but I want to have breakfast with a good friend before I head back to NJ. (And she's sleeping on someone's couch).

I asked the guy who's pulling this all together if he knows if anyone had a spare couch.

If worse comes to worse, I'll pay for the room. The people I'm getting together with were the "nerds" like me. I'm thinking I'll find a couch.

I can't believe I'm willingly getting together with people from HS but when I saw the list of people I just had to go. They are nice and decent people.

[PapaBear]

They are nice and decent people.
In that case, maybe you shouldn't go. Decent people are the WORST!:smoke:

[mdr55]

It's like an unofficial re-union

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Facebook makes me want to die. Every friend I've ever made has a six figure salary and is a supermodel or bangs one. And they have a million kids! A million.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Facebook makes me want to die. Every friend I've ever made has a six figure salary and is a supermodel or bangs one. And they have a million kids! A million.


Tim, love you. I wouldn't run into this willy-nilly. I know the people who are coming. If

it was anyone else, I'd hit the bar HARD!!!

I think I'm okay here-- it's the NICE people from HS I'm getting together with.

[JimBeam]

I did the same thing last week.

Got in contact w/ 2 guys with whom I was really good " school " friends w/ in HS but hadn't spoken to in almost 18 years.

It was a hoot. Picked up right where we left off.

Facebook is cool like that.

[Jujubees2]

I've never had a Facebook account until last week when I got an email from my first girlfriend from high school who said that she was talking with other people from high school on Facebook and my name cameup. So I finally took the plunge and opened an account.

[ToiletCrusher]

I got together with high school friends through facebook so I could kill them and eat their corpses.

[~Katja~]

I started a Facebook acct a while ago and forgot about. I restarted it when my best friend requested me as a friend.

Since then I'm getting at least two friend requests from former HS friends per week. At first I just added them. But then I got re-aquainted with a few people.

The 14th is the day we get together. I booked a hotel room but I can't really afford it ($120). I DO want to go, but I can't really afford the hotel room.

Would it be in poor taste to ask if people could "put me up?" I don't want to be a bother, but $120 is a lot!


ok cheapskates-- give me ideas!!!!

where are you getting together? (never mind- just read it in a later post)
If more people get together there maybe you can ask to split a room?
book a suite or one with two double beds so it's easier to share the cost?

I just met a friend from school I found on facebook last weekend and it set me back financially quite a bit cause she was on vacation where us Germans tend to spend a lot of money but I live here and scrunch every dollar I have and 15 bucks per drink are just not in my budget.

[CountryBob]

I still refuse to have Facebook - I dont need another thing that I have to check and keep up with all the time. But, I am pushing myself deeper and deeper into a "hey you dont facebook? whats wrong with you?" abyss. I really dont want to know what everybody in my past is doing - and for them to know what I am doing.

[Death Metal Moe]

I still refuse to have Facebook - I dont need another thing that I have to check and keep up with all the time. But, I am pushing myself deeper and deeper into a "hey you dont facebook? whats wrong with you?" abyss. I really dont want to know what everybody in my past is doing - and for them to know what I am doing.

I resisted for awhile too. But just because you sign up doesn't mean you have to be on it 24-7 and let it swallow up your life.

I just exchange short messages with people, look at alerts briefly and put a pic or two up every now and again. It's similar to MySpace but you find people in different ways. That's it.

You're not missing much not being on it, trust me.

[boosterp]

I opened an account in December and found a bunch of people from HS. Several of us now trade emails and such, it's nice. They plan a get together this weekend but I think I'll skip this one.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Question: if you had really hot female friends you made in college and evidently had them as ur friends on facebook, but you have only talked to them in person and never on facebook, and now you have not spoken to them at all in a few years, is it generally analyzed by the female population as being a "creepy cowardly internet stalker" type deal to send them a message for the first time on FB after said several years?

Not that I care. Or that this is me asking. I'm just asking for a friend.

[Slumbag]

I don't know how you people do it.
I'm not on Facebook or Myspace, but I just saw someone from school I haven't seen in years at work.
We talked about how all the hot girls from school are pregnant, how neither of us are doing shit, and that were halfway to 50.

There's no way I could do that everyday online. The ten minutes I just had were depressing enough.

[PapaBear]

I don't know how you people do it.
I'm not on Facebook or Myspace, but I just saw someone from school I haven't seen in years at work.
We talked about how all the hot girls from school are pregnant, how neither of us are doing shit, and that were halfway to 50.

There's no way I could do that everyday online. The ten minutes I just had were depressing enough.
Halfway to 50? You're barely out of high school!

[midwestjeff]

Halfway to 50? You're barely out of high school!

Go easy on him. He's a Mod on STI. He's under a lot of pressure.

[Slumbag]

Go easy on him. He's a Mod on STI. He's under a lot of pressure.

Admin now, and I'm really REALLY not.

[midwestjeff]

Admin now, and I'm really REALLY not.

I don't know what that means.

Traitor.

[Sue_Bender]

I got together with high school friends through facebook so I could kill them and eat their corpses.


So you had a good time?


That's nice.

[midwestjeff]

So you had a good time?


That's nice.

Fuck off, cunt.

[Sue_Bender]

Fuck off, cunt.


You can do better than that, MWJ. :wub:

[midwestjeff]

You can do better than that, MWJ. :wub:

Fuck off, cunt.

[Sue_Bender]

Fuck off, cunt.


All right, I'm beginning to think that you don't care anymore.

[midwestjeff]

All right, I'm beginning to think that you don't care anymore.

Fuck off, cunt.

[Sue_Bender]

Fuck off, cunt.


Wait...

my mistake.



You're on fire!

[Sheila]

We had a get together recently, it was fun, and I don't live far from my hometown.. I was very quiet in high school, and didn't really open up till college, I started talking with someone from HS on FB on her business, and we really hit it off, we never said 2 words in HS and now we are like friends and she even helped out my other friend outside that circle with some advice... so it can be good esp. networking... Yeah, there's been some decent people in my HS that I'm finally getting to know, it's very bizarre..
I'm sure you'll get someone to give up their couch, or at least split the room, we're all looking for ways to save these days.. Good luck Ms. Fuzzybut

[midwestjeff]

We had a get together recently, it was fun, and I don't live far from my hometown.. I was very quiet in high school, and didn't really open up till college, I started talking with someone from HS on FB on her business, and we really hit it off, we never said 2 words in HS and now we are like friends and she even helped out my other friend outside that circle with some advice... so it can be good esp. networking... Yeah, there's been some decent people in my HS that I'm finally getting to know, it's very bizarre..
I'm sure you'll get someone to give up their couch, or at least split the room, we're all looking for ways to save these days.. Good luck Ms. Fuzzybut


Fuck off, cunt.




Edit*---Ooops. Sorry, I was on a roll.

[TripleSkeet]

I got started in Facebook around Thanksgiving. Im now convinced my friend list will eventually consist of every person Ive ever met in my life.

Its unreal how many people Ive got back in contact with. Not just HS, but grade school, old coworkers, etc.

I originally got on it because our class president from my HS, the one in charge of putting together the reunion, is in an insane asylum. So its been 15 years and we still havent had a reunion. Basically a bunch of us just went on Facebook and put togather our own by meeting up for a big drinking night. It wasnt bad, 60-70 people, especially on short notice. It turned out to be alot of fun.

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Question: if you had really hot female friends you made in college and evidently had them as ur friends on facebook, but you have only talked to them in person and never on facebook, and now you have not spoken to them at all in a few years, is it generally analyzed by the female population as being a "creepy cowardly internet stalker" type deal to send them a message for the first time on FB after said several years?

It could go either way, but I know "your friend" and I'd say it would be ok.

[Thebazile78]

I still refuse to have Facebook - I dont need another thing that I have to check and keep up with all the time. But, I am pushing myself deeper and deeper into a "hey you dont facebook? whats wrong with you?" abyss. I really dont want to know what everybody in my past is doing - and for them to know what I am doing.

I must admit that I felt a lot like you for a while, and, in some respects, still do ... I don't need x, y, or z person from my past knowing where I am or what I'm doing, but I've played with the privacy settings, only friend people I actually want to keep up with and have learned that there's a lovely "block" feature that I can use so that people I don't want knowing anything about me (like the boyfriend I had in h.s. who stalked me after we broke up Sophomore year and still carried a torch for me into Senior year) won't.

Additionally, I've found it to be a lot more useful to discuss some sensitive company issues with some of my coworkers when we can't talk in the office ... and over the past 2 weeks, I've been using it as kind of a grief support group with the folks from my high school choruses. It's been kind of nice knowing that there are hundreds of people out there who feel the exact same way I do about this particular thing ... and they're willing to use the energy from our shared grief to do something positive. It's also been nice catching up with old friends who I don't get a chance to see much anymore because we live too far away to see each other every day.