I'm not a FaceBook user. I created an account a few years ago before I quit my job, largely because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Some young kids had been hired out of college and were raving about how it allowed them to stay in touch with their college friends and family. I'm old school. The people I wanted to stay in touch with already had my contact info. My family is local. Contact me? Phone or email. Easy.
With the discovery that my biological dad passed away last year, I've been on sort of search to find out a bit more about that side of my family. I turned to Facebook to help see if I could piece some of that information together. FB, as much as I avoid it, has been very helpful. It turns out that side of the family is rather large, and rather complicated. It is hard to know exactly how the branches of the family tree are related to each other, but I did my best to try to piece things together. I'm sure my understanding is incomplete, and wrong in some places.
I've browsed numerous Facebook profiles, and I'll be damned if I haven't come across 3 people I know who have links to my biological siblings... I'm sure if I dug deeper, I might find more. Strangely, each of these connections were made through my previous employer. I guess given the size of the previous employer it shouldn't be that surprising, but the "degrees-of-separation" aspect to it is strange. Some of the connections I'm ambivelent about, but others I'd rather not stir up. Two links trace back to one bio-bro, and one traces back to another.
Need to continue digging...
UPDATE: Geez... I just found another. Through what would seemingly be a very tenuous connection, I just found another person I knew in high school, and that was a LONG time ago...
Let's tally:
3 connections through my former employer
1 high school connection
Kevin Bacon can't be that far behind.
It really is a small world.
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