High School Reunions go High Tech

My wife and I are attending her high school reunion this weekend and while for the most part a reunion is a reunion. People talk about where they live and what they have been doing and of course their kids and now grand-kids. They listen to music, back from their day, as well more current music and dance (or try to dance or try and avoid dancing).

So what does technology have to do with a reunion? Mostly it has to do with how everyone found out about the reunion and keeps up with each other.

In this case Facebook and People Finder, among other tools, were used to search for people from my wife's graduating class. Finding a way to connect with them, after sifting through the false leads, led to many more folks coming back to my wife's home town for reunion then would have happened without these high tech tools.

Now that many of these folks have joined Facebook for this purpose there is on-going communication going on between many of them. This is all good news, but will they stay connected, that is the question that will be interesting for us and Facebook to watch.

One also has to wonder what this connectivity between folks will do to future reunions as much of the draw of reunions is to catch up on what is already being discussed on the Facebook's of the world.

Are you using Facebook or similar tools to connect with your friends, family, classmates and / or customers in an interesting way? Please share with the Technology Plumbing community.