Social Networking mind blowers

I have no been a part of the facebook world for almost three years now and I have nearly run out of "mind-blowers" you know, the people from your past that you had no idea that you'd ever see again but then there they are asking to be accepted as "your friend" again.  These are people you never thought you'd see or hear from again, in fact you had gotten so used to the idea that you had no plan for when you would hear from them again.  I had one such person friend request me this past weekend and sure enough I was blown away and not prepared at all for what I had to say. It was one of those friendships that ended very badly; I just walked away from it without explaination, just avoiding any contact what so ever and this after having a really good friendship for a couple of years.  I had my reasons, but most of them revolved around being young and not having the cajones to say what was really on my mind at the time; as time moves forward you realize that leaving things unsaid not only robs you of great times that you might have spent with people; but might have also changed the course of your life somehow.  Now, I am happy with my life and how it had turned out but nothing in the world could have prepared us for this kooky social networking world, where now every time we log on to our computers we may have our past staring us in the face and asking us:  "You ready to deal with this NOW?"  I have had some memorable experiences with this little social networking thing, talked to people that I literally never thought I would think about again, let alone see again; elementary school friends long forgotten, High School friends who I thought were too distant in the rear view mirror and college friends who I thought had already made their curtain call in my life and now this person who was only there a short time but was much like family.  I am too much of a social person not to enjoy the intrigue of it all, even when one of these people from my past hooks up with a current friend of mine it still makes for a great story, though a crazy one.

I don't believe in things like fate and destiny and all of that, but let's just say for the sake of argument that all of us we're on a course of some kind and that course is effected by the people that we meet and interact with then how much has this technological ginat called "Facebook" completely changed our courses?  Certainly, all of us running into our first loves, former best friends and long lost siblings every day was not part of "the plan" or was it?

I'm not sure I have any mind blowers left, I know that people still talk about the occasional friend, family member or former love that they find and they are taken aback but I don't think that will happen to me anymore; there are a few former girlfriends I suppose that if they pop up, I'd be a little freaked out but probably just for a moment; I have already had ex girlfriends friend me, people I thought didn't like me, MY MOM! and I'm currently mulling over a friend request from my childhood bully so can there really be anything else out there that would shock me?  Probably, but you know what, I kind of like it, it's an easy way to get back to sqaure one with a lot of people, chances are if you were really close to them you probably never wanted to lose touch in the first place, anybody that has kids knows that 1 year turns into 10 really quickly; so why lose touch at all?  Now you got them all in one place, a really easy rolodex!  Facebook, "reach out and firend somebody.