No Such Thing As Long Lost Friends

My wife and I were talking about the fact that the Facebook generation, those in the say, 6th grade who are actively Facebooking, will never have a long lost friend ever again. 

That point was driven home to me tonight when I found a group for the school I once attended and eventually worked in as a teacher, however briefly.  

I found people on there I hadn't talked to since shortly after puberty...left and right I'm sending out friend requests to these people, and it's unbelievable...these are people who I wonder every couple of years or so, "Whatever happened to so and so?"  Guess we get to find out.  

I wonder though if we're losing something, the inability to truly leave the past behind.  I know, the option is to simply not join Facebook, or else ignore those friend requests of those we'd rather not remember knowing, but there's something to be said for being able to move on with one's life without poking around the past.  Or is Facebook simply a long-running reunion, where we go through spurts of "hey, what are you up to?" followed by long awkward electronic pauses where we don't ever communicate with those people ever again, and if we do, it's the usual stilted conversations that revolve around the weather, politics, and baby's first whatever.