Ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't already attended your high school reunion, you probably won't.

This is not a study I read anywhere, but... it's a theory I think will prove true in the next few years.

I always assumed I would go to my ten year high school reunion, I loved high school. I was a Charrelle (the poms team), I was the yearbook editor for four years, I was part of the National Honor Society, musicals, variety shows... it was a big part of my life.

Going to a high school reunion always seemed like a great idea until I graduated high school exactly when Facebook popped up. Facebook basically killed the high school reunion, especially if you graduated from high school after 2003.

The minute I started college, I had Facebook and so I never lost contact with my friends and acquaintances from high school, ever. I'm still friends with a slew of people who I haven't seen in person for ten years but I see online every single day, hence the reason I don't have to go to my high school reunion.

You know what else Facebook does? It allows you to see exactly who will be at that high school reunion. Mine is this Saturday and on the Facebook event, there are exactly 18 people who are attending this event.

We graduated in a class of 642 people and on the Facebook invite, it says that 342 people were invited. Only 24 people are maybes.

You get it right? I already see all these people online all the time, only 18 people will actually be there and on top of that those girls who were my very best friends in high school are currently still my pretty great friends.

The closest other high school to where I grew up planned their high school reunion for July. Then they cancelled because no one bought tickets.

While I feel bad for the kids who planned the event, I think this is just the way things are going to go from now on, Facebook killed the reunion.

  1. You already know who got fat.
  2. You already know who is married and who is already divorced.
  3. You already know who is jobless and who is making bank.
  4. You already know who still lives with their parents.
  5. You already know who has kids.
  6. You've seen pictures of all kids, weddings, vacations.
  7. You can learn all of those things for free in your pajamas with ice cream in your mouth.

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