Facebook Musings

[geminigirl]

I got a Facebook friend request from someone I went to high school with. It made me think of three things:

1. The number of people I know who are now married and using the format (first name) (unmarried name) (married name)-I'm actually using that format, too.

2. How Jewish my high school was. I've been browsing the names of people in my high school. Wow.

3. I knew someone growing up (we went to the same elementary school, different junior high schools and then high school together) who had a baby when we were in eighth grade. I realized today that the baby is now 20.

Comments

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

had a baby when we were in eighth grade

...buh.

Girl I dated in college had kids a couple boyfriends later. They're teenaged girls now. Those are the oldest peer-kids. But... ...eighth grade? Aieiugh.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

It's still boggling to me that a good friend in high school fathered a child right after high school who is now 23. WTF. I'm not that old!!!

I still need to find you on FB, I think. *goes to look*

[bitty.livejournal.com]

what's interesting is that one of my biggest gripes for the longest time is that most social networking sites don't have a maiden name field. which is annoying, because what if the person has changed their name since last you worked together/lived in the same city/went to school with?
facebook at least has alumni networks, so i could find some folks i went to high school with even though they'd married.

then facebook added a maiden name field (i'm not sure if anyone else has, since i didn't change my name).

but before facebook had a maiden name field, the convention developed to be [unmarried name] [married name] even if that's not what they use in real life, and that convention has stayed. in fact, several people on my facebook flist have switched to that style retroactively. my SIL, for instance - started out with her current name and then a few weeks ago added in her maiden name as part of her last name for identification purposes.
(also, because "andrea ramirez" is apparently the name of a columbian druglord and she's gotten held up in credit checks; i don't think she thought it through before taking my brother's name ;)

i've obsessed over this sort quite a lot, can't you tell? ;)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

My mother used her maiden name as her middle name when she got married because she positively loathed her actual middle name.

Had certain things gone differently, I might have had a child 24 years old. That's always a bit weird to contemplate. I never really paid attention to it until I realized, "Oh, huh, that'd be drinking age now, how bizarre."