| This might be one of the rare cases where "you'll understand when you're older" is the most elegant and truthful response available. But I'll understand if that's not very satisfying, so... Interpersonal connections just do not exist in some sort of static and immutable categorical hierarchy, wherein all those that share in the Platonic ideal of WORTH KEEPING are definitely kept above some threshold of positive health and repair, and those that do not are just as destined to fade naturally. If you're "sure that" you would recognize and maintain any connection that is worth keeping, then you're only correct insofar as the connection might not be worth maintaining for the other person. :) The reason for this is that, in short, you can't see as far into the future as you think you can. As you get older, you (hopefully) gain some perspectives that retroactively change the past. You occasionally notice important, even semi-profound things about people you used to know; things you had never really noticed before, that you could not have possibly noticed before because circumstances had not yet unearthed those facets of their character. High school isn't life. College isn't life. The first ten years of your career aren't life. "Life changing" experience can come at any time, and it doesn't just change your life after the experience, but also reaches back into your experience of things that occured before. drops mic |
In order to know this you had to be young and "get older". Social networks are only 10 years old, approx.
What social network did you use 25 years ago?