DOUGLAS QUENQUA

writer and editor

One More Way Facebook Is Ruining Everything

It used to go like this: You graduate from high school. You lose touch with pretty much everyone. You grow up. One day you get an invite to your 20-year high school reunion. You go. You laugh at the fatter, dimmer versions of all those people you never liked anyway. Maybe you reconnect with one or two old friends. You go home. Life goes on.

Not anymore. Now, thanks to Facebook, the “reunions” happen online, leaving very few surprises for the actual party. Some people love it – they say it lets them skip the small talk. Others say it’s ruined the whole thing. Either way I think we can all agree they need to serve better booze. In today’s Sunday Styles section, Remember Me From Yesterday?

Filed under: 2011, Douglas Quenqua, New York Times

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

ABOUT DOUGLAS QUENQUA

I'm a freelance writer and editor living in Brooklyn, N.Y. My work appears primarily in the New York Times, but also Wired, The New York Observer, Redbook, the New York Post, Columbia Magazine and others. I write about culture, science, media, lifestyle and dogs. When I remember, I post the good stuff here. It's pronounced Kwen'-kwa. Contact: doug.quenqua@gmail.com

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.