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Are You Thinking About Me?!
Published on 04/10/06
by John Phillips
So everyone is on MySpace these days, and it’s kind of funny and fast things spread and how people sign up for it. When I first signed up for it a few years ago, I didn’t really look for people on there. I didn’t know anyone using it, in fact I think I just got a friends list this year! You don’t really realize how big it is until you start getting friend requests from people you knew waaay back in the day.
As far as I can remember, Facebook didn’t have this kind of effect, as strong as MySpace. I never got into it to the point where I was on junkie status, so I never really went searching for people. I guess I didn’t care that much, however, it seems that in the past few months, the friend requests have been flying into the mailbox, from alot of high school people. So it makes me wonder, do these people stumble across my profile from someone else’s page, or are they actually thinking “let me search for John Phillips on this mofo.”
The other day, my best friend from ages, like, 2-15 sent me a friend request. I had randomly talked to him a few times this summer because he ran into my mom and she gave him my number. And it kind of threw me off when he sent me a friend request. I don’t exactly forget about some of these people, I just don’t think to look for them on these kind of sites. I’m kind of curious as how many of you actually go looking for people you knew back in the day, or just stumble across them?
It is cool that these kind of sites connect people though. I had a really close homie in 3rd grade who ended up moving to Washington D.C. and we lost touch, and last year he hit me up with a friend request, so it was real cool to catch up with him. The sites have their benefits, and it’s downfalls.
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