Blasts from the past

Today on Facebook, attributable I'm sure to the inherent addictiveness that is fed by spending too much time searching the lists of friends of people you have linked up with, I was 'found' by no less than two people I used to know from Junior School. You know, that place I haven't been to for 20 years.

Completely out of the blue, I receive a "friend notification" from Jake Jackson and Sarah Thomas. To be honest, it feels a bit presumptious to declare public "friendship" with people you haven't said a word to in 2 decades, but the Facebook method of re-discovering the nostalgia of a mis-spent youth holds a power that is too great to resist. People who for years have probably always still been just down the road and who I (and, I am sure, they) had no immediate desire to locate before now, have suddenly become more accessible. And you feel almost flattered when they have sought you out. Because you can accept the friendship request and then keep tabs on where they are and what they are doing without the need for conversation. A strange concept, but also quite an intriguing one.

I wonder who will appear next....