I for one have always been an opponent of the evolutionary process that facebook has undergone in the past couple of years. From the smallest changes in layout, to the monstrosity that was newsfeed. Like everyone else I’ve learned to live with the changes, and even grown to love some of those applications. But what recently came to my attention was the “people you may know” sidebar feature. Now facebook awkwardly sifts through your friends’ friends and decides that maybe you should friend them as well. Akward, right? Right.

But useful if only for the sheer amount of nostalgia that comes with seeing the formerly pimpled faces of once beloved high school classmates superimposed to the right side of your facebook homepage.

People like Mark Primeano and Tiffany Scott whose sheer amount of cruelty was only offset by the mind blowing amount of ignorance that they displayed on a daily basis. I can only pray that my little asian visage doesn’t pop up on their “people you may know” bar.

Between the horrible memories that their pinched little facebook profile pictures brought and MTV’s The Paper (more on this later) I’m so glad that I’m not back in high school.

Sometimes I think I’m way lucky that I attended three different high schools before graduation, because I was only mildly immersed in any of the bullshit that went on. While it sucks that I never developed a really “tight” group of friends throughout those years, looking back on it now, I can’t say that I’m lacking anything that any of my collegiate friends possess. I have the five or so kids I still talk to on a regular basis, and a lingering fondness for my senior prom. Other than that however, high school was always a take it or leave it experience for me.

I should write a book though. Seriously. Getting suspended for touching some girls boobs. Getting sent to a mental hospital for catching a case of the “gays,” moving out at seventeen. I’m a lifetime movie waiting to happen. I never even had a cellphone.

But I don’t regret any of it, because I’m a hell of a lot more functional than a lot of the wastes of space I’ve met since graduation.

How can you not miss that?

MTV, I commend you. Not since Laguna Beach have I been more annoyed by “real life” high school students. Annoyed and enthralled that is. I could eat up their upper middle class goodness all day long. Good thing I have so much free time, because that’s basically what I’ve been doing lately.

Thank God So You Think You Can Dance is back. I’ll probably be talking a lot more about that as soon as the audition process finishes up. Oh goodness what a summer I’m in for…