Groups on Facebook

Not Facebook Groups, silly... I'm actually talking about distinctions between the various groups of friends I have. Facebook is a funny thing, because it somewhat forces you to label where you know people from, and it's kinda neat because one random circumstance or reconnection, and you can find an entire group of people you had lost contact with, or at least didn't know were part of this, admittedly stupid, yet wildly addictive, craze.

Anyway, my point is that I found it funny how surprisingly few of the groups and subgroups of friends I have overlap. There are the people I went to elementary school with, but since I chose to attend a different school from most of them after Grade 8, they are quite independant from my high school friends, who are generally split into friends from class and the football team, and it's kinda funny how my best high school friends who joined me at Queen's aren't actually on Facebook (yet?). Then with Queen's people, it splits further into drinking buddies (a.k.a. mostly rez friends), Apples I knew from class, and bandsies, again with surprisingly little overlap, really. Most recently, I have my work friends, and while there are a few funny 6-degrees kinda things going on, they are (aside from DC) entirely independant. Last but certainly not least, there are the piping and pipe band people. These relationships extend from before high school to new people I keep meeting even now, and also include (by far) the widest range of ages, from people who are almost contemporaries of my parents to several who were born in the in 90's, all brought together throught a common interest: drinking... er, I mean.... pipe bands. :)