Schools

[da]

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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[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I am mostly still in touch with all my college friends.

The thing I think it's really useful for is discovering journals you hadn't known about for people you already know.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I guess I still wish more of my out-of-touch friends kept journals.

But if they were good about writing, they wouldn't as likely be out of touch, since invariably we fall out of touch because one or another of us fails to answer emails.

/me thinks about that and gets mildly grumpy...

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

There's a big difference, also: Cornellians wind up moving to more than 1 other place. dr_tectonic can see the vast majority of his college friends by going to one of two places. [For that matter, lots of your friends from when you were in college are Friends.]

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

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.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Got it in one. A good chunk of my flist is people I knew already, but I didn't know they had journals til I saw it somewhere else. Two are even old schoolmates.