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The reason these films don't really work anymore...

posted 12 years ago by coleburg83
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Everyone is way too connected to everyone else through the internet. Class of 2000-2001? Almost everyone was/is on myspace and facebook and on and on with their email available and AIM and etc... People don't show up at 10-year reunion anymore with no clue about what anyone else has been doing, especially their friends.

They didn't even reference any social media or anything. And that was the most unrealistic thing. I think 75% of the conversations at my reunion were about something people had already talked about via facebook on the net. Virtually every class has a reunion page on multiple sites and it's been like that for a long time now.

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[–] audiopinions 12 years ago

To be fair, Rosario Dawson's character was talking to Channing Tatum's and they both admitted they both don't really use any of those sites.

When I was in college everyone I'd ever met used facebook, now a good percentage of friends of mine don't even have facebook/myspace whatever. Sure, some people obsessively check up on everyone they've ever met, but most don't. And plus, to assume you know how someone's life is because you look at their facebook page is ridiculous. If 10 years of your life can be summed up by one page of text (possibly photos) on the internet then you probably wouldn't be that interesting of a person at a reunion, whether social networking existed or not.

[–] ananeke 12 years ago

I agree with Toadstiffler.
Plus, they might just be Friends on Facebook, and just talk occasionally. People from high school Friend everybody in the class just because they were in the class, not because they were friends in high school.
Like Channing and Scott seemed to be actual friends, they just weren't as close because Scott lived in Japan. Ari and Rosario talked enough to know that Rosario wasn't coming. They all knew Oscar because he was famous and probably kept in touch with him for that. And Max and Justin's characters were obviously friends who hadn't been that close lately. And Kate Mara's character wasn't interested in anyone from high school anyway.
I thought it was good. My ten year reunion was this year and I didn't go, and this kind of let me see how it could have went.

[–] Oblivion14 12 years ago

Agree with ToadStiffler as well. We had a big friendster/myspace/facebook phase in college after we just graduated and social media was the new "thing". Then it sort of petered out after that.

Most of us still have social accounts and we do still have a facebook group just for our class, but we don't really use that to pry into whatever they're doing, much less brag about our lives. Most only update their accounts for the (positive) big things and invitations to events, like I do nowadays. But we don't really use it to post our entire lives nor to check up on theirs. A fair amount of that is because of the realization that facebook and privacy don't go well together.

Though yeah, of course we know most of the big stuff, like who's dating, who's still single, who's married, and all that. But not really everything, especially the negative stuff.

And unlike, ananeke, I did go to our 10-year reunion last year. I think all of us had second thoughts about going. I was glad I did. This movie had a lot of similarities to what happened: the former popular kids who are not as popular anymore, the shy kids who grew up to be very attractive people, reformed bullies, the big shots and the unemployed, the old flames, the husbands/boyfriends and wives/girlfriends that tagged along, the single parents, the ones who married early, the bestfriends that drifted apart, the gossip, etc. But all in all, it was awesome. The 10 years of "real life" didn't seem to matter one bit. Underneath all the accrued "adulthood", we were still mostly the same people we were.

[–] nutsberryfarm 11 years ago

the music guy had to be on myspace.

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[–] Kuato_and_George 12 years ago

that isn't based on a young adult novel doesn't seem to work anymore. Action movies were king in the 80s and early 90s, but people couldn't be bothered with them anymore.

Audiences tastes have changed. A lot.

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[–] allybaba28 12 years ago

I think it just depends, my graduating class was 35 in the year 2000...when we had our reunion in '10, I think I had been communicating with maybe 4 of them via facebook and then after the reunion started talking to a couple more. I lived in a very small town (obviously) and there isn't much social networking going on in small rural towns.

[–] hovaoc149 11 years ago

they did reference facebook. She said she couldnt find him on their becasue theres too many Jake's

so it was half explained why they would still do a reunion.

[–] aRealCoolGuy 11 years ago

I was Class of '02 and I only know 1 or 2 people who actually USE Facebook. I know a few more that have Facebook but nobody uses that to look up people from high school...the real question is who still keeps in touch with people from high school after 10 years??

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[–] vnse 10 years ago

This movie was released in 2011 so that means they graduated in 2001. Facebook was created in 2004/2005 and didn't become a household name used by everyone until 2006/2007.

By then the class of '01 would have been 5-6 years out of high school and even out of college. It's likely that when those characters got on FB (assuming they actually did get on, not EVERYONE is on FB), 5+ years after high school, you're not going to friend that many people from high school. Maybe one or two people, but for most people, by the time you're 5 years out of HS, you don't really care that much about HS anymore.

So it's realistic I think that someone from the class of 2001 shows up at a 10 year reunion and doesn't know much about their former classmates.

You are right however, OP, that were this movie to be set in 2021, it would be unrealistic since the Class of 2011 would all be networked in some way be it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc and know pretty much everything about everyone.