Recently I’ve received a number of spam emails entitled “Will Facebook kill the high-school reunion?”
I believe that high-school reunions are a very American notion, much like the high-school prom, and as such are fairly alien to cultures outside the US and an adopted “tradition” that has crossed the Atlantic within living memory.
Now I could go off on an ill-informed diatribe about such invented traditions, where people in English-speaking Europe assume US traditions as their own under the full belief that these traditions exist in their own cultures thanks to a smorgasbord of US film and TV providing rich historical and social details about these traditions viewed through the eyes of the participants as a backdrop rather than in analysis. But I won’t. My point is somewhat different.
Facebook will never kill the high-school reunion because Facebook does not serve beer.
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the black telescope 
So true! <br/><br/>I never understood the high school reunion myself…I graduated in 1974 and was invited to several over the years, none of which I attended.<br/><br/>Why would anyone want to go see people and how they have aged over the years? I just seemed too creepy to me.<br/><br/>-Jeeem-
I’ve never even been invited to one, although I’ve learned that a few have taken place.<br/>But then I’ve distanced myself from my school friends, and feel no loss from that at all.<br/>Yeah, I find it kinda creepy too, and to be honest, I’d happier the further I am from where I went to school, an awful soulless little town.