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"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 $15,000 and you find it's burning a whole in your pocket. I mean, if you don't blow it on something, you actually feel as if you are going to light up like a roman candle. You turn on the TV and see an advertisement for a Big Screen television and in that very moment you decide you definitely need to have the new Hi-Definition television and while you're at it, you purchase an entertainment/theater. By the time is all said and done, you have just spent the entire amount on a bunch of plastic, glass, and pretty television set.

After you spend that money, you find that your car is on its last leg and some basic maintenance will correct the issues. Figure that now is a good time to get it done until you realize that the money you so desperately wanted to spend is now residing in your living room. In order to prevent this, you could have saved and prudently followed a plan that may have satisfied both scenarios.

Take this and implement it into your lives. Your friends and/or spouse point out your inability to move on from your high school days. You dress the same, your ambitions are limited, and your career is stagnating. This whole in your life can only be filled with what others call social networking sites. On the front, it's a good way to share ideas, information, and hopefully make friends in the long run. That is what these sites were designed for. Now, take this one step further. You select an option to find users that went to your school and perhaps graduated in the same year. Once school is over, it's amazing how everybody's lives go in completely opposite directions and you tend to loose contact with your high school friends. I learned long ago, that if you didn't keep in touch at all during the following years of high school, chances are that you never will again.

For a fleeting moment, you shared a moment with your friends and acquaintances that will last an eternity, however, your friendship probably did not survive the following 3 years after graduating. Let's forge ahead a total of 15 years, and you are reminiscing about your glory years and start looking through your yearbook. Nostalgia fills your head and heart so you find the courage to contact some of your old classmates.

Facebook was designed originally for the Ivy League school to communicate on a various subset of concerns. Like MySpace, Facebook is striving to survive in this environment by adding more and more internal applications to keep you interested. The means at which this is done is very efficient. So much so, that it gives you a since of accomplishment when you reach out to people. Now you find yourself in an increasing dilemma, should you contact them or not. Nobody will know for sure what is going to happen, however, if you are looking up friends and classmates to just talk, chances are you will try to relive your youth. I can tell you from experience, there is life after the teenage years, and those that you are trying to contact probably feel the same way.

With the advent of various social networking sites, a definite paradigm shift is occring. With this comes responsibility to your self and others. Try to ask yourself, "It's not if you could, rather, If you should". People that were acquaintances in high school most definitely would not want to feel as if they were being stalked. Remember your history and you can appreciate the future. Don't be nosy.

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