Facebook and Myspace

United States
July 22, 2009 10:56am CST
What do you do when people that you never talked to in High school or who made fun of you back then contact you on these social networks? Do you except them or ignore? I have spoken to a couple because I know people change but a few I really just do not want to know in any shape or form.
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10 responses
@chi2nasrin (1101)
• Malaysia
27 Jul 09
Well, that was way back when we were still young and it is usual to be a bit naughty in high school. Yes, I made fun to some people and some made fun of me back then, but it was not too horrible I must say, more like joking and poking each other around. I except their friends request. People who made fun of me or look down at me back in high school, I notice my life is better than theirs now (so I accept to show them I guess), and vice versa. But I think nobody really hold grudge to anybody now anymore.
• Malaysia
27 Jul 09
I am so sorry, I didn't know that was the situation. All I experienced was just the small small things. If I were in your shoes, I won't accept either because honestly speaking, I believe that kind of memory will haunt me forever. Well, you have every right not to accept. Just move on with your life and don't let that affect you. It is so sad to know that these things actually really happened in real life. Even though some will make excuses saying that back then we were just a kid and didn't really think of the consequences of our doings. I am really speechless... sorry.
@soulist (2985)
• United States
28 Jul 09
I actually like myspace better. I let them add me, because they get to see how well things turned out for me. Some of the people that made fun of me in high school went no where and are bums, where as I have a killer job, wonderful friends, I look amazing and so much more.
• United States
28 Jul 09
yes many of the people we knew back then did not get very far while others have. There have been one or two that I have accepted plainly to shove in their faces my loving husband and kids.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
22 Jul 09
I can't believe how the people of my past are exploding into my present at Facebook. I've been actively online for about 13 years now, I've only run into a handful of people I knew. Like a lot of people, I've run into a lot of good friends, but mostly people I just knew along the way. It's kind of ironic though, the ones I spend the most time IMing with are the people I just knew. When I find (or am found by) my good friends from high school, we kind of catch up, then don't talk much afterward. I've never had any interest in going to class reunions, but now I'm seriously considering showing up to the next one.
• United States
22 Jul 09
Now that I think about it, that has also happened to me in some cases. We ran into a girl from high school at a picnic and though we never said more then a few words to each other we now speak back and forth a few times a month if not more.
@dmrone (746)
• United States
22 Jul 09
Hi! I will accept some of them, but there are some people that i would rather not have to deal with anymore. Once in a lifetime was enough, twice is just plain ignorance. Some people do change, but then again some never do.
• United States
22 Jul 09
Too true, many of them never change or fall back into old habits right off the bat.
• Pakistan
22 Jul 09
i love facebook because of face book i meet my school fellow that i have not meet for 7 years and one day i was on facebook and see a group that i interested and shocked to see that my that friend was founder of that group on facebook as our interests were same and we were best friends i cam to that group due to my interest so now we talk each other on phone and we meet each other once in a month scheduled so that's why i love facebook.....
• United States
22 Jul 09
Very very cool that is definitely a good story about facebook.
• United States
22 Jul 09
I accept their request. It's sad that most of those real popular people who didn't know I even existed back then...still live in the same area... I find that sad! Then I make fun of their pictures and tell them jokingly that they look old and fat! We don't really talk much but it's interesting to know where they are ane waht they did.
• United States
22 Jul 09
Curiosity has lead me to accept a few but usually my first instinct is correct and I end up deleting them
• Portugal
22 Jul 09
I do not accept their request. I had a Hi5 account for a while, and my purpose was to have in there a list of contacts with all my REAL friends and colleagues, the ones I might want to get in contact with five years from now, for instance, and not just any person I knew from sight from my school or town. And specially not the people I didn't like or vice-versa! But hey, that's just my point of view, and I'm the weird one! 8) For many people social networking is all about meeting new people, or getting known. When that's the case, go for it and accept the invite. As you said, people might change, and perhaps now is your chance to become friends.
• United States
22 Jul 09
I am real picky. I want to keep in contact with people I like and trust and since I show pictures of my kids and husband and I, careful is my main purpose. I do not like to talk to people who where just plain nasty back in the day though at all.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I accept their request. Alot of people do and say things they dont mean during high school. I was one of them and am thankful that some of my friends forgived me.
• Malaysia
22 Jul 09
I usually just accept them. I believe that they usually don't mean what they say,too. And also that people can change, that in a person there's always some certain kindness inside. What's the worst that could happen if I just accept a friend request from a social networking site anyway? :)
@machizmo (279)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I accept them but I do not always talk to them right away. I want to see how they are now and if they have changed at all.