Of e-groups, networking and emails
With the new year comes another set of meeting long-time friends again as I was invited to join e-groups and a social networking site. What triggered such online groups was the recent high school homecoming. It’s been years since most of us ever got a chance to be in touch with one another. And we do need a lot of catching up to do. What’s also exciting is to know how far we’ve become in terms of life’s journey as well as where everyone is home-based these days in all parts of the world. I never realized though that joining such online social groups would also entail receiving a lot of inbox messages. In just one day I would receive 20 emails from various groups not to mention individual messages and the spam messages, too . If I missed a day or two, which everyone could identify, more emails will be coming soon. With these, I share ambivalent feelings: happy to finally get in touch with the people I’ve known and grown up with as well as shared some things in common from grade school t...