Looking up former acquaintances

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How often do you look up former acquaintances on Facebook or LinkedIn or anything like that?

How often do you request to add them on Facebook?

How often do they do it?

How often does a former acquaintance reach out to you online?

Linked In , or Classmates.com but those companies do not leave you slone , unless you quit using that email account that you signed up with. Honestly,Personally speaking not sure , I want to do something like this, People change, sometimes by a large amount. .based on personal experience . Usually , a person might lose contact with some people for their own reasons ....
of which you might not be priviledged to know. For me ,it would feel like walking , into a minefield of humans..?
But if you proceed, will wish you all the best ...

There are some people I'm in touch with on Facebook but I don't talk to them, really just like their posts and that's our only communication. I don't know how to stay in touch with people because I feel like I would just be bothering them and I don't know what to say. It makes me sad because I would like to have more friends and I would also like to be someone who is nice and who makes other people feel valued, but I just don't have it in me and don't know how to do it. I even have some friends who live here in town whom I haven't seen in many months, and I just don't know how to reach out to them.

been looking up my 5th grade math teacher. 30 years ago. mr JT.

mr jt said that he was on a professional hockey team, but his name is not on their list of former players.

mr jt's facebook said he worked as a schoolteacher his whole life after his hockey career. now he's retired and "very happy". it doesn't list any relationships, but he took two pictures of a boy he claimed was his son. his son, allegedly, phd student in physics at a nearby university. mr jt's facebook said that he spent 2 years in community college, then 2 years @ a university then 2 years at a different university. bachelors in kinesiology and masters in education. nothing impressive though.

according to the internet, mr jt's brother got a bachelor's in computer science and MBA.

according to the internet, mr jt's mom was a 5th grade teacher (just like him). his dad was an industrial engineer and in the military.

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it takes a lot of time, $$ and energy and talent/potential to get into the National Hockey League.

How did an industrial engineer and a 5th grade teacher pay to send Mr JT to enough hockey lessons to get into the NHL? I can't wrap my mind around it.

just seems like almost everyone's living WAY f*****g beyond their means.

I have one old friend from the 1970s who I look for on occasion but have never been able to find him. He was an impressive Mathematician who was a bit quirky.

The last I saw him, he was starting up a computer copy to manufacture and make boards and drivers to run peripherals. His partner was a bit of a twit. The last thing I heard about him was that the partner forced him to sell out their company about a year after they sold it. They apparently did pretty well, but really should have kept the company.

One of my math books had previously belonged to him. I don't remember if I bought it from him to help him with funds to start up his new company or if I bought it at a book sale and was surprised to see his name inside.