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| Yes | 69% | 433 votes | Total: 631 votes | |
| No | 31% | 198 votes |
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Social networks like MySpace and Facebook have allowed many people to reconnect with others with whom they'd lost touch, not only school friends. These online meeting places hav...read more
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by Sarah Silhan
While I initially would have said that the Internet was more trouble than treasure, I believe that the inventions of such networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are helpi...read more
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Is it healthy to go to a ten year reunion? Is it healthy to stay in the same town as you grew up in? I don't really feel like there is any question here. There was a time whe...read more
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by Rach
Yes, I do believe that these social networking sites are helpful in maintaining and re-establishing contact with your school friends. Working in the real world has made me r...read more
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Though it hasn't been that long since I graduated from High School, I don't feel it is that bad. It may not have been 15 years but that's not the point. The point is if you ar...read more
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by Kate Hudson
Human beings need contact with other human beings. We need friendship, support, reassurance, someone to share our joys and our pains with. Communicating with other human being...read more
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by J. Favreau
My Space is a social community that is by in large a great place to meet new people and to get in contact with old friends. Whether or not it is healthy to do so that might be ...read more
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by Ayesha M
Until a week ago, I would still have said 'no'. That good friends never lose touch and only expendable people fall by the wayside. And who needs to find them again, compare your...read more
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by Fred Senchuk
Friends are friends, and we can all use more of these. There are many positive things that can come from these sites, and no real negatives. Old friends, whom you may not ...read more
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by Anne Barron
Locating friends and acquaintances from the past is perfectly healthy; however, the emotional state of the person searching for old pals is a much more important issue. There ar...read more
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Finding old school buddies by any means can be healthy as well as unhealthy. I have found quite a few friends through myspace, and I have been able to reconnect with them. Howev...read more
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by David Stuart
Contacting old friends you haven't seen for years is nothing new, however, the likes of MySpace and FaceBook make it much easier. As with a lot of technology, it is not of itsel...read more
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For someone like myself who is naturally pretty nosy, it can be very addicting to view old classmates myspace pages, kind of like a competitive sport, and of course, a very amus...read more
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Contacting anyone from the past takes consideration. This is because you probably parted company for a reason. If the reason was just that time and events took you to another pl...read more
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It is perfectly healthy to socially interact with anyone, especially with family, friends, and even relatives. After all, these people usually have a lot of history with an ind...read more
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by Keith Godsoe
MySpace and Facebook have revolutionized the way we interact with people over the Internet; including those who we thought dropped off the face of the Earth! For me, I someti...read more
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If you are anything like me, you are pretty bad at maintaining contact with people once you have moved to a new location. The number of friends I have lost contact with is incre...read more
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Yes it is healthy to find old school friends after 15 years or so without them. They are the ones with whom one has shared a part of their life... perhaps the best period of lif...read more
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19 of 28
I can not account for 15 years, but I have been using Facebook as a way to connect to friends from Primary School that I haven't seen for 10 years. I originally signed up to Fa...read more
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All this new mechanisms to get in touch with old school friends are rich in helping you to free yourself and others from the past, and the good thing is that you control it, you...read more
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Myspace and facebook were engineered as networking tools allowing people to keep in contact with their friends and relatives, and to find new ones. Many people tend to use the s...read more
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It isn't healthy to find anyone after any reasonable amount of time on either MySpace of Facebook if you've had a peaceful 15 years without them or 2 years without them. The ke...read more
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PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS OR PERVERTS? As responsible adults, perhaps with children of our own, what are we doing on MYSPACE or FACEBOOK? OK, I'll come clean here. As a par...read more
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As this is a debate, I have to come down on one side or the other, and unfortunately I believe it is not healthy to seek out your old friends however close you were in the past....read more
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The internet is like the old west, in all it's untamed glory. It has a lot to offer both good and bad. There are good guys and bad guys. You could strike it rich, learn somet...read more
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by PH1966
There is something liberating about finishing high school and making new friendships when entering new phases of your life, without having to revisit old relationships from scho...read more
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On the whole, no, I don't think it's healthy to find people you've lost touch with - largely because there were probably very good reasons why you lost touch in the first place!...read more
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by Cocodots
We all have old school friends we're curious to hear what happened to; everybody finds themselves wondering idly from time to time whether the first person they ever kissed is h...read more
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by Saurabh Pal
There comes a time in life when things move on its pace and this mostly happens in the mid-life around the forties. At this stage of life work, family, friends, clubs, vacati...read more
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Whatever happened to that nerd who always sat in front of the class? What about the most popular cheerleader in school? Have you ever wondered what happened to those school frie...read more
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11 of 17
It is simply nothing short of amazing how quickly anyone can access another person's files and Internet profiles with just the touch of a few buttons. There was a point in time...read more
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by bambam
After a recent spell in hospital I found myself largely at home and unable to partake in my usual activities. It felt like a large void in my life and I was determined not to en...read more
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by Solarfinder
"It's not if you Could, rather if you Should". Every time I am about to pursue anything, I have to ask myself this very question. Let's take this a little further, you have $1...read more
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I actually have found a couple of old friends on My Space and I am beginning to think it was a mistake. One was a friend I played with as a young child when I visited my dad. ...read more
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The internet has moved beyond physical connections of one computer to another and instead focuses now on connecting people. Social Networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, and c...read more
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Myspace and Facebook are great tools for keeping in touch with friends and family. But when it comes to people who haven't seen each other in fifteen years, social networking s...read more
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There are the kind of people that will cheese up to you for a little wile for the sake of disrupting your life for their own entertainment and after these berzerkers are done wi...read more
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