As a product of the 70′s and 80′s, like many folks, I did my fair share of partying.
And, not unlike many of my peers, my memory of these events is, well, cloudy.
And then came Facebook.
Maybe Facebook is the great flashback machine.
After all, I have connected with more people I have known from those wacky days in the last 6 months than in the last 25 years.
In conversation with many of them I am reminded of events that have long been tucked away, and forgotten, in the deepest recesses of the brain.
Just last week I got a call out of the blue from a ‘friend’ circa 1974-1978. We had not spoken, or communicated in any form, in 30 years.
As we stumbled down memory lane I had some genuine flashbacks of people, places and things way long forgotten.
Perhaps, as I approach 50 with full blown CRS (can’t remember shit), I should be glad that Facebook stands ready to deliver to my computer and telephone long forgotten events.
Maybe.
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1 Faceless // Aug 16, 2010 at 4:15 am
Yes, its true that Facebook can be a great window to the past, and as I approach the 50year old mark faster than a greased baking dish down an icy cliff with a tail wind I do worry about some of the ‘side affects’ of meeting up with old friends or enemies via Facebook. I’m guessing that if Facebook can deliver a blast from the past its equally able to extract some skeletons dragging and kicking from the closet. Not that I have anything to hide, but be careful because as we get older and the CRS syndrome sets in our recollection of events can become like our eye sight blurred, and suddenly the stories that we told our kids of how cool and heroic we were growing up are shot out from underneath us and leave us shivering naked and with nowhere to run!!. Hmmm I may remain Faceless for the moment.
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