Schools

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Livejournal now has schools. Schools show up on your user info page, under Interests and above Friends. Also on the schools page you can search for people who were there in a particular year.

I remember going through rounds of looking for school alums on Orkut and other places on the net; I never came across anybody I wanted to contact. Which sort of makes me feel cheated; I suppose the myth is that you'll find folks you'd lost touch with and realize how much they meant to you at the time? Er.

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I signed up for classmates.com at one point and found all kinds of people from my school I'd lost touch with. Eventually I realized that I'd lost touch with them for a reason. It's not that they were bad people, but we'd each drifted our separate ways and didn't have a lot to talk about.

I set my University in my profile, but I'm not sure that I'll leave it. For one, I don't like having a lot of information that makes it easy for real life people to find my journal (like, say, my family or my co-workers). But also, I just don't know that I'll end up using the feature.