My past meets Facebook
I wanted to share with you about this crazy phenomonon that’s taking place for me on Facebook.
About 6 months ago I started this new group called “I went to TCA of Fremont, Ohio.” TCA is a small Christian church/School (actual title=Temple Christian Acadamy) in Northwest Ohio where my dad used to pastor from 1975(the year I was born) to 1993 (the year I graduated). Facebook didn’t recognize it as a school and I really wanted to connect with people from my past. Being an avid fan of history, I recognize that “those who don’t learn from history are indeed condemned to repeat it.”
So after about 5 months, this Facebook group grew very slowly. There were about 10 people in the group, basically hanging out and saying things like “Go TCA” and “The rules sucked” – not exactly the kind of connecting I envisioned. I had basically written off the group as a failed experiment in relational connectivity.
Then for some reason about a month ago, I connected with some old classmates from elementary school, and I noticed that one of them were friends with another person from TCA, to which I befriended and invited them all to my failed experiment.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book, “Tipping Point” tells that an idea takes off when three kinds of people get involved, and it appeared this idea had finally brought these three kinds of people:
Connectors
Mavens – (databank, information processors)
Salesman
So anyways, our group has cruised over the last month, reuniting old friends, looking at old pictures, and sharing old memories, in a way that has been so refreshing and positive for me looking back to the world I used to live in. My dad even made his way to the group, after an hour of teaching him how.. Crazy!
I’ve been wondering the value of Facebook, and now I know.
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