In order to resuscitate my professional network, I have been using some of the online tools that have become available in the past several years. Having been out of the workforce for so long is no excuse for not staying current with current technology. I’ve signed up with several job posting boards, and most recently, facebook.
I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1981, long before there was an internet. I recently came across my “facebook” from my freshman year at RPI, complete with high school yearbook pictures of all the incoming freshmen. But RPI was an engineering school, and always technologically advanced. It has always generated graduated comfortable with technology. So imagine my surprise to find that only 8 of my classmates have registered with facebook!
Am I really so old that facebook isn’t relevant? I found other people of my age listed in other networks. Have all the old engineers registered somewhere else?
The only pleasant surprise I had was when looking through my high school alumni. One of my best friends was one year behind me. When I checked that class year, he was the only person registered. I was just glad to see he was still alive; there was a time when I thought he might not make it.
