It’s very interesting seeing how the evolution of online social networking sites changes where my birthday greetings come from each year. This year, the vast majority of them were on Facebook. I got birthday messages from over 1.8% of my graduating class from high school, which is pretty amazing, considering there were 700 of us. And it’s *because* of Facebook; these were all people I hadn’t seen since high school (one exception, but that was last summer at a gathering that was planned on you-guessed-it). Those were outnumbered by birthday wishes from people I’ve never met in the flesh, though once I add in the online ones I have met and the ones I originally knew in person, I think the ones I’ve met outnumber the ones I haven’t, which is probably the first time that’s happened in a few years.
(I know some people don’t like being found by old schoolmates; my high-school years weren’t the high point of my life, but they weren’t a slough of despond either, so I do enjoy catching up with all those people.)