Millennial Media

I often say "Well, it's been fun knowing you. I doubt we'll ever see eachother again so ... good-bye." (to people I truly most likely won't ever meet again - most of old classmates). The response to which is always pretty much the same: "What are you crazy? What are you talking about? Sure we'll meet again, don't say that we won't." indeed, they still believe.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that in a sense a person you will never see again is similar to dying. I mean sure you can still contact the person but I'm talking about the ones you won't ever contact again. I agree with the mindfulness project but for some reason we, in general, don't see permanent good-byes as an opportunity to speak our minds with someone before the time to say good-bye has come.

So my question to you would be - why is it that in "You only have one day/week/month/year to live" scenarios we tend to take a lot more chances then in the case of "I'll be moving tomorrow/next week/month/year" and I probably won't see many of these people I know here ever again? (whereas 'probably' is equal to 'you might still make it out alive')

I developed a severe illness at the end of my college life. Seeing the newsfeed of all my old friends and their continued life was torturous, to say the least. When people from high school friended me that just made things that much worse.

Of course, some people I knew died or are not on facebook but those are also not the people who push themselves back into your life. For whatever reason.

When I said goodbye through various end points of my life, I meant it as final. Of course in the back of my mind I think that maybe in the future we can both extract some kind of benefit from knowing each other but that rarely, if ever , really pans out. Recently I have started to unfriend people but I had to unfriend mutual friends to not appear in "people you may know" . Sure, one could block a user but its always better to leave the ability to be found if someone is looking, but that is rare.

At this point my life is improving and as the article said, i am focused on relationships i have now and my future. My FB newsfeed is mostly pages of my interest and it feels better. As human beings, we all have different stories and we tend to grow apart from most of our "friends" so why not just cut them off and move on?

Still haven't joined. Still have all my friends. If I want to share photos I send them an email with a link from kodak.com...