Are you friends with people you knew in school?

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It seems the norm to still be friends with people you knew in school.

For example my ex is still friends with his friends from middle school, they have maintained the same core group for decades only now they have partners in their group too, even in different countries they still maintain friendships. My three ex best friends; all three are still good friends and looking through Facebook albums of one I saw a sea of familiar faces from school. I have a few old friends on my Facebook friends list which is meaningless, and there have been times when one of them (we were raised like sisters growing-up) has passed me on the street without realising. I'm COMPLETELY different to what I was in school, I don't understand how people maintain friendships like this.

Are any of you still friends with people you knew in school?
How do you maintain a friendship for so long?

I'm not really friends with a lot of people I went to school with but then again I didn't have very many friends in school. However, I am still friends with a few friends with whom I met in school.

-my best friend, i met in grade 4/5 split, she was in grade 4 and I was in grade 5; I've known her for over 15 years
-I'm friends with somebody with whom I met in grade 7 still
-I have a friend who I met in grade 10
-I have a couple of college friends who I still talk to

I'm not. The closest I come is having my cousin who I went to school with as a Facebook friend, but we never see each other.

Only one person, but I don't see him very often because he works away a lot.

All my other friends are people I met in the past few years. I was actually supposed to have gone to the same school they did, but there was a change of plans...I wonder if I would have been friends with them now if we had gone to school together...

No. With some of them it's because I have nothing in common with them anymore, and with others it's that they don't want anything to do with me (won't respond to friend requests or messages).

The best friend I had in school lives hundreds of miles from me now. I only talk to him, and/ or see him, once every two years or so---if that. I play the organ in a church where the pianist went to school with me---that's about it for contact with anyone I went to school with. I have few friends, and I prefer it that way.

I am really only still friends with one person from school. I follow some of my old elementary friends that I had before I moved cities, and I follow a few others that I knew or were friends with in school on facebook. But that relationship does not even really reach acquaintance stage. But I have a lot of trouble keeping up friendships if I move or change schools etc.

I only have one elementary school friend on my Facebook. She lives not far from me and I haven't seen her in over a year now. I know we should get together sometime but what is stopping me is what would I be talking about when we see each other. Plus she hasn't called me either nor message me on facebook asking me if I can hang out or something. So we are both at fault here. She got back in touch with me in 2007 on myspace.

I have some of my old high school/middle school mates on my facebook but we were just acquaintances. We don't ever message each other and I rarely comment on stuff they post. I am not much of a commenter.

No, aside from Facebook, I do not have any contact with my friends from elementary, middle or high school. I did not make any friends in college who were not also mutual friends of my boyfriend, and I am still friends with them. That equals 3 people.

When I was in school I had almost no friends and have no contact now with the few I had.

The only friends I still have contact with from when I was in school I don't see very often and weren't actually in school with me because they were older than me.

I am in contact with a friend from school. But we were never close and still aren't.

A lot of my friends I met online and eventually met in real life. Two of whom I've known for almost 9 years now.

I haven't heard from anyone I knew in school since I graduated from High School. I wasn't expecting that to happen, but I have moved on.

I often lose track of people as soon as they or I move. There are currently two exceptions to that rule - one is someone I end up back in touch with somewhat infrequently, and another is someone I've made an effort to stay in touch with because we have similar cognitive styles.

I am not in touch with anyone I knew from school. The closest I came was someone I met several years ago whose brother was someone I knew in high school (and he had just been diagnosed with AS when I found out he was her brother), and that was some 15 years after I dropped out.

I once signed up on classmates.com and found out that one of the bullies from middle school had gone on to become a police officer and was shot in the line of duty. I may have gone back once, but otherwise don't really think about it.

No. But they added me on Facebook for some reason. I hardly talk to them and end up deleting them anyway. By hardly I mean never. not once. don't care for them.

I'm not really friends with anybody that I went to school with.

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