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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To posters writing that social media or online communications would have helped to keep connected to college friends, that's not necessarily true. These days see young adults follow or have "friends" from college on social online accounts but that's about it. So while you can say they have "friends" most are mere acquaintances that they don't actually hang out with or can call if needed to listen-help-give advice.  [/quote]
I think you may be discounting the difficulty of staying in touch before cell phones or Gmail.  We technically had email, but used our school and email addresses and those were turned off shortly graduation.  So at graduation everyone scattered.  Most stayed with their parents for a few weeks/months before moving to be near their jobs or grad school.  Then people likely got a landline phone with a new number.  With everyone moving at the same time and long distance being expensive, it was really easy to lose touch unless you were in the same city.  There was no directory of people's parents' phone numbers, so there was no reasonable way to even look up that contact info.  People who stayed in touch tended to be local to each other.[/quote]

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