What has facebook taught me?

I've suddenly found myself on facebook. I know, I know - I've sworn off myspace, I've made fun of my friends who lived by their top 5. When facebook came on the scene I was just as adamant - no facebook. Then recently while some friends were over for dinner they were touting the praises of facebook and how it would help hubbies business. Days later we found ourselves addicted to facebooking. The miraculous idea behind facebook is that you can be friends with someone you haven't seen since grade school or worse - high school *gasp*.
In "friending" people I've ran across many old chums from high school. A couple I've "friended" others crossed my mind for the first time in over 10 years. Tonight I was looking at friend’s facebook pictures. Not only did they have pics from HS but their current life as well. I thought the contrast was interesting. Not only because this friend happens to look completely different (both inside and out) rather due to how in older age have we tended to refine ourselves. In all of the pictures from HS they have posted they are surrounded by a crowd of people all smiling and cheesing it up. In the captions they're named a few of the folks in the picture; I imagine the ones that they are still close with.
The current day pictures they have posted are interestingly of only a few people. From the captions you can tell that the people surround them are close a small hub of friendship and love. Everyone has the same shining smile their eyes and lines of inner circle secrets playing around their eyes. When looking at the pictures you automatically smile because you can tell that the group smiling back at you is having a great time.
It is amazing how we change as we grow older. In our teens we want nothing more than to be surrounded, large, impersonal groups of people. Thinking this will make us feel included, normal, accepted. Then as we grow older and learn about the important things in life. We learn that a large crowd does not show others you are accepted or normal or even for the most part included. We learn that having a few close loving people around us make us feel special, normal, accepted. And isn't that all we really want?