{"id":2624,"date":"2013-08-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2013-08-15T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:00:15","slug":"its-a-facebook-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/its-a-facebook-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Facebook Miracle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all the slack that Facebook receives, for all of the bad that it sometimes causes, there’s also a lot of good that comes\u00a0from Facebook. Namely – reuniting with old friends and people from your past.<\/p>\n

I have\u00a0three main types\u00a0of friends on Facebook<\/p>\n

1. My close friends that I see and speak to on a regular basis<\/p>\n

2. Friends from the past that I used to be close with that I no longer see or speak with for one reason or another.<\/p>\n

3. People that I’ve met once or twice that I’m “friends” with mostly for stalking purposes.<\/p>\n

However, my favourite thing is when I reunite with friends that fall into the second category.\u00a0 This happened to me for the first time 6 years ago when\u00a0I reconnected\u00a0with an old\u00a0neighborhood friend that I was best friends with in grade school.\u00a0 We lost touch when she moved away with her family. Through Facebook we were able to reconnect, have stayed in touch and\u00a0even attended each other’s wedding!<\/p>\n

Most recently, I reunited with some friends from elementary school.\u00a0 Through Facebook we all found each other.\u00a0 Even though two of them no longer live\u00a0in Toronto, we figured out that we’re all going to be in town at the same time so we made plans for dinner.\u00a0\u00a0While I keep in touch with one of them, I haven’t seen my one friend\u00a0for over 15 years and the other, I\u00a0only see\u00a0on occasion.\u00a0It was amazing catching up, as if no time\u00a0has passed at all (except, so much time has passed and so much has happened).\"Elementary<\/a><\/p>\n

These girls are the first people I met when I moved to Canada as an 8 year old. They immediately took me in as one of the “girls” and didn’t mind that I hardly spoke any English.\u00a0 With only 6 girls in a class of approximately 20 grade three students, it meant a lot to me to become friends with them, especially as an immigrant.<\/p>\n

As my husband would say,\u00a0this chance meeting\u00a0is\u00a0a Facebook Miracle! (this has to\u00a0be said in the “Costanza\u00a0Festivus\u00a0Miracle voice“ of course).<\/p>\n

Have you\u00a0experienced any Facebook Miracles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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