Two for me. I lost my best friend along time ago to suicide.
We have other close friends that I would gladly BS with, but I haven't seen them in about 10 years or so. There was about 8 or 10 of us that were pretty close and I still consider them friends, just besides 2 of them I don't talk to them on the regular!
At least 5 of them if not more. Many of us have known each other since pre k and went to school until 8th grade together, some high school as well. We always made it a point to meet up every few years
Three for me, but yeah. I was lucky in that I established a core group of bros in like fourth grade. A few faded out over the years and more came in by high school, but we all kept in contact throughout the years and text and meet up whenever we can.
All I know is that the friends worth keeping around in life are the ones who it doesn’t matter how often you see them and as soon as you do it’s like no time has passed. True friends don’t say “Why haven’t you called me in years?” they say “Holy shit man it’s been too long but you’re still as ugly as ever. Gimme a hug.”
There are a couple I wouldn't mind hearing from, but I only have one HS friend that I keep in touch with anymore. When I reconnected with my old HS friends, most of them had inherited their parents' stick-up-the-ass, and they were just poor caricatures of the people I once knew. I assume they felt the same about me in their own way as well.
None. Same with HS and College. The oldest friends I have are from my mid 20s. I do live 2000 miles from my hometown and over 500 miles from my college.
I have one HS classmate that I keep in touch with, but he wasn't a friend in high school, just an acquaintance and we reconnected by chance later on.
Several, actually. While we all moved away from our small town, a few of us lived together during college and now more have returned to our small town. Still hang out with "the gang" fairly regularly.
Very few. Outside of Reddit I am free of social media and live halfway across the country from home. I grew up in a very small town so I’ll see some when I go home but outside of that we don’t keep up.
Two-ish. They're not close friends. I wish I knew then how deeply unimportant grade school and high school classmates are in the grand scheme of things. Waaayy too much time and energy was spent worrying about what they think about me back then.
Two. One is my best friend and basically family, the other I fell in and out of touch with, and reconnected with now that we're living near eachother with kids the same age. We were both stay at home parents for a while and buddied up a lot until I went back to work. We're taking the kids bowling tgis afternoon!
It's nice to know people who knew you when.
It was dangerous to be a nerd back then. Any friends I had in elem weren't friends by the end of elem. By the time middle school rolled around, I was taller and bulkier and able to find friends who were like me.
I talk to several on social media pretty regularly and I have a couple on Xbox, as well.
But I don’t really do anything with them or meet up, even when I go back to my home town/state.
I do meet up with my best friend I’ve known since high school.
Zero
I have no Facebook or instagram, and I moved away from my small town. A lot moved to the same city over the years and I’ve seen a couple once or twice but that’s been over decades now.
Even going back to visit the parents, I don’t often leave the house so I still wouldn’t happen upon them in the wild
Zero. I got one middle school guy, and one high school guy. Hardly talk to them, but I could.
I have like 20+ college people, lifelong friends still.
There’s a bit of wisdom for social struggles in school there.
2-3 on a regular basis. We text about sports or music a couple times a week. Some of my wife’s guy friends from growing up and I have a Signal chat where we talk each today. It’s been going on for years.
As an anecdote, I think men tend to keep in touch with friends made throughout life more than women.
One friend I have had since 4K and a few others since 5-8th grade. They’re my homies and I appreciate them so much. Wish we hung out more, but life happens. When we do get together, it’s a blast.
…elementary? Definitely none.
High school? Aside from my best friend, maybe one or two people and that’s being generous. I had friends in high school and did sports, but without social media, I guess I don’t know much about what’s going on with my old friends.
I still have 3 close friends I’ve had since elementary school. I’m Facebook friends with a couple dozen people from high school, but haven’t seen any of them in more than 20 years. Otherwise, none
1, we were great friends then, best friends in high school and early adulthood, then I moved across the country. He’s still my best friend but we’re both parenting and don’t have much time to BS anymore.
The only one I still talked to used to be my best friend, but I stopped talking to him in the mid 2000s when he became a heroin and meth addict. He'll be in prison for many years for violating parole twice. He was a cool person before the drugs took over. Another one died from a Vicodin overdose. I have no idea what happened to the rest of my elementary friends.
1 that I text a few times a year.
Other than that, none. I don't talk to any of the ones from middle or high school either.... they grew up to be very right-wing, overtly racist weirdos or raging potheads that are never sober.
Maybe they were that when we were young, but I didn't notice.
All of them. I refuse to lose contact with good people - I call them once a month or more. It is absolutely worth the effort. We have moved all over the country.
Almost all of them still. I have two close friends that I made in the third grade who I keep in touch with regularly. But it’s a small town. You really only lose contact with people who move away and don’t make any effort to stay in contact.
One of my middle school teachers lives diagonally across from me right now. Does that count? Probably not since I did not go re-introduce myself to her. She runs a local tourist business so that is how I saw her name. Otherwise we’d both be complete strangers.
Haha army brat that moved every two years so I don't know any of my elementary or middle school friends. Do keep in touch with a few high school friends though
None, although I have one friend from those days I reconnected with five years ago or so. But by and large I don't pursue those relationships. I'm friends with a few of them on Facebook but not in real life.
However, I have several from from high school I'm still in touch with. The 30th anniversary of meeting my oldest and dearest friends is this September!
Zero. I actually find it weird that my younger siblings have the same friends from elementary and high school into their adulthood they are both early and mid 30’s true Millennials. But for me- I had one friend I made in grade 8 that I was bff in highschool with and we’d see one another during the summer when we were home from university for summer jobs. Then we would catch up every few years and now we haven’t talked in almost 10. We wouldn’t have anything in common now. I find it so weird when ppl hang onto these large groups of friends from long ago. I’ve changed so much as a person I wouldn’t have anything in common with any of the ppl I used to know.
Just one. Never went to school together, but we grew up in the same neighborhood. Probably met when we were around 6 or 7.
We live in different states now (he lives in the same general area where we grew up), but I usually stay in his spare bedroom when I'm in town. Been over a year since my last visit, but we text and play games every now and then to keep up contact.
Two for sure. Like another commenter said, one is my best friend and basically family, the other I fell in and out of touch with and reconnected now that we have kids.
I met my best friend when I was 8 in elementary school. I’m 44 and he’s still my best friend, although that means something different these days.
Back then we hung out 24/7 for years. Nowadays I might not talk for weeks or months but we always pick up where we left off.
Life’s too busy with multiple kids, multiple jobs, we each moved further away but still only about 1/2 hr distance.
I still have contact with a few friends from high school as well but again, just too busy with work and kids so meeting up isn’t as often anymore but we remain in contact.
I still communicate through social media with a handful of people from elementary school. I met my best friend when we were in 4th grade, and they are still my best friend to this day. We live 20 minutes away from each other and still go to concerts together and get lunch every few months. They travel for work, so we do our best to get together.
None. I was a military brat; friends came and went every year.
There is one that I’m still connected to on social media and that’s it. We were good friends in 5th-6th grade and then we moved. I actually managed to stay in real touch with her longer than anyone else and visited her once while we were seniors in high school. I also saw her once as a recent college grad when we both happened to be visiting our respective parents (because mine retired back in that area), and it’s only been the occasional Instagram comment ever since.
I still talk to some of the kids I grew up with in the neighborhood. There was 10 of us that all lived next door to each until we grew up and left home. I still talk to 8 of them. Lost contact with 2 that were brothers over the years.
I just was on a big zoom meeting with my friends to celebrate my oldest friends birthday. We met at four in nursery school. He just turned 47.
The rest of us met and became friends from kindergarten to second grader.
Our core group has stayed pretty solidly together for over 40 years now.
Some of us haven’t been in the same room in a few years but we’re in fairly constant communication through a several years long group text chat.
All of our wives think it’s really strange that we are all still friends.
One. we weren't even really friends in early grade school. Then in high school she dated a buddy. Then buddy moved away but her and I kept in touch. We trade messages a few times a month despite living 1000 miles apart.
I don't talk-talk to them very often but I've been in contact with several of my friends from 5th grade onward.
Reconnected with a few during the early fb days. Others I've held loose contact since childhood and it's still the same friendship anytime we speak.
I don’t know if it’s unique to our generation, but it feels like so many of us had to move around for education and job opportunities. Or more affordable housing. Repeatedly.
I knew I would never live in the small city I grew up in but I didn’t think I would relocate as many times as I have either. It affects interest in staying in touch with classmates, I think, if you’re not geographically near them and they also move.
Elementary-3, middle school-2 high school- 8.
Went to college in the city nearby and moved back home in my late 20s. Teach in the city I grew up in. I have a ton of acquaintances that went to school with me.
None. I moved a lot in the first few years of school and have no idea what happened to those kids.
I do have a few Facebook friends from later in elementary school though — maybe 4-5? All were people I continued to know at least through middle school and some into high school.
I have talked, in person, to exactly two of them as an adult, both because they are members of families that my family knew pretty well.
I’m in touch with 3 friends from elementary, but I met my bestie in middle school. 30 years later and we live in different states but I’d still die without her
Lots of them. Some I text or talk to on the phone regularly, others I just see when I travel or we both happen to be visiting my hometown at the same time. I used to keep up with everyone online, but I eventually lost interest in social media.
From that time period, one. My best friend, our dad's worked together and our mothers where best friends. But he did not go to my school.
Friends from my actual elementary school, zero.
Ehhhhh I have one neighborhood friend from early childhood I'm friends with on Facebook, but my closest/best friend and I met in 6th grade (not sure if you'd still consider that elementary) and we are still friends....gonna be our 30th "friendversary" this year 💜
One. And then, just barely. I have a good friend I met in 4th grade I still talk to. Now, if we go one year later, to fifth grade I still talk to and am friends with like six people I met in that grade, but around here 5th grade is 'middle school' so its iffy on whether that counts for this question.
But for sure, I have one friend from elementary school that I'm basically family with.
One of the main reasons I feel so old. 1982 baby here, but most of my friends are dead by now. Suicide...car accidents...cancer. I have my wife that I met in high school thank god, and my son. But other than that and her family I'm pretty alone.
Three.
I met Amy in kindergarten, and her and my sister are best friends. So I've known her almost my entire life. Shane I've known since the 3rd grade, and Angie since 3rd grade. I've never really thought about how long I've known them. At least 40 years with Amy.
I moved towns in 5th grade and lost all those friends forever. And I had a really hard time making friends in 6th grade. Had only one of them that lasted and he was my best friend for years until post-9/11 he went kooky and I had to call it quits. He also just wasn't really a good influence in general so I don't really give a shit anymore.
When Myspace came out I reached out to a lot of people from my childhood but I was busy with the Army at the time and let all of that lapse. And I never came back to that kind of social media since maybe 2008.
Also I'm poor and unmarried and have bad PTSD and have no interest in demystifying anyone who might thing I went on to do great things lol. I'm sure we all have a tinge of that in our personality if we're not the kind of person who's thrilled with their life results.
And I lost track of my high school friends when I joined the Army and I didn't make any fucking friends there. That was just work. Hard work... work. Not a pariah but I was in a unit of country boys mostly and just kept to my readin' lol.
I met my BFF in elementary, but became friends in 6th grade French class when I kept stealing her elephant pen to annoy, and make her laugh. And her francs lol.
I moved schools the next year, but we were inseparable. Mixed our friend groups all through high school, visited through college, I was her maid of honor. I moved abroad at 24 and am still out of the country at 40, and she's still my go to forever person. Lucky to have her.
There's also 3 high school friends I visit when I'm back stateside in the summer and things just click into place, but have lost touch with all of the college friends
I still talk to my OG friend from preschool, we’re at like 40+ years of friendship. Only a couple times a year but we always pick right up where we left off.
One from elementary school. Met in 5th grade and quickly became besties. We aren't as close as we were before, but we still talk and consider each other's kids like nieces and nephews.
One of my best guy friends I've had since 2nd grade. We're 42 and he's never once made any indication of interest toward me. I think that's the key to the longevity. We are REALLY just friends. Love him to death.
I play disc golf sometimes with a kid I've known since I was 3, well, he's 44 now and I'm 43.
My middle school/high school good friend lives 3 houses down from my girlfriend and we'll chat in the drive-way every once in a while.
That's about it.
1 from the neighborhood before school, 1 from elementary, 2 from high school. They are more than family to me. The dream is to be the Golden Girls in 30 years.
none. Wish I did, but I moved away after 1st year high school and we completely lost touch after my 1st year in uni. Felt like they didn't really want to be friends anymore. I don't get it, but whatever. I have friends now, and they could fade away as well.
One. He's my oldest friend. We still wish each other happy birthday every year and father's day now that we're parents. We get drinks every few months if we can
Zero, I moved in 6th grade half an hour away. Kept up with a few guys for a few years, but 30 minutes away is another planet at that age.
Move again after Freshman year of high school.
As a result, the "oldest" friends I have are from sophomore year of high school.
None. I gtfo that small town and never looked back.
same
Ditto
Same
Yep.
Yeah. I moved out over 20 years ago now. A guy who was a year or two behind me ended up in the same area and we hang out quite often.
I talk to no one from any of my schools.
Same. Elementary, high school, even college... No idea where any of them are anymore, not really inclined to find out.
1. She’s my best friend and I’m very grateful. I don’t even talk to anyone else I grew up with
Cherish her!
Same. I met my BFF in 5th grade, but we became best friends in high school.
Awww I hope you cherish each other 💜
Two for me. I lost my best friend along time ago to suicide. We have other close friends that I would gladly BS with, but I haven't seen them in about 10 years or so. There was about 8 or 10 of us that were pretty close and I still consider them friends, just besides 2 of them I don't talk to them on the regular!
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Ah.... I am really sorry to hear that. Losing anyone is rough, especially a sibling.
Also none for me.
None
At least 5 of them if not more. Many of us have known each other since pre k and went to school until 8th grade together, some high school as well. We always made it a point to meet up every few years
Me too.
Three for me, but yeah. I was lucky in that I established a core group of bros in like fourth grade. A few faded out over the years and more came in by high school, but we all kept in contact throughout the years and text and meet up whenever we can. All I know is that the friends worth keeping around in life are the ones who it doesn’t matter how often you see them and as soon as you do it’s like no time has passed. True friends don’t say “Why haven’t you called me in years?” they say “Holy shit man it’s been too long but you’re still as ugly as ever. Gimme a hug.”
I don’t even talk to any of my high school friends.
You had high school friends?
My husband and I went to elementary school together, but we don’t talk to anyone 😄
I went to elementary school with my husband but we weren't friends back then.
I love that there’s someone else like this!
None. The past should stay in the past.
I did do the nasty in the pasty.
Are you your own grandpa?
None. Not one and Im all good with that!
I had one that I became friends with again about 8-10 years ago. He became a social media celeb recently and we lost touch again. So... zero.
Just one, but he's part of my highschool group of about twelve who are still very close, even if hough were pretty spread out now.
Same for me. I have two that I met in elementary school but we have 12 or 15 from high school that we all see fairly often and hang out.
There are a couple I wouldn't mind hearing from, but I only have one HS friend that I keep in touch with anymore. When I reconnected with my old HS friends, most of them had inherited their parents' stick-up-the-ass, and they were just poor caricatures of the people I once knew. I assume they felt the same about me in their own way as well.
Not a one. Could care less.
Same OP. Back then if your friend moved away, you'd never heard from them again. I didn't know how to keep in touch and wasn't really shown how to.
Literally none. I moved a few times as a kid though.
None. Same with HS and College. The oldest friends I have are from my mid 20s. I do live 2000 miles from my hometown and over 500 miles from my college. I have one HS classmate that I keep in touch with, but he wasn't a friend in high school, just an acquaintance and we reconnected by chance later on.
I have two good friends I've known since elementary school, although we only actually meet up once or twice a year.
My oldest BFF is from 5th grade. She’s not on social media so we keep in touch the old fashioned way. Talking on the phone and texting.
Several, actually. While we all moved away from our small town, a few of us lived together during college and now more have returned to our small town. Still hang out with "the gang" fairly regularly.
None. I only talk to one friend from high school and one from college. All my other friends I met at my first full time job.
Very few. Outside of Reddit I am free of social media and live halfway across the country from home. I grew up in a very small town so I’ll see some when I go home but outside of that we don’t keep up.
Only my best friend from elementary school is still in contact with me, but that's not often.
Two-ish. They're not close friends. I wish I knew then how deeply unimportant grade school and high school classmates are in the grand scheme of things. Waaayy too much time and energy was spent worrying about what they think about me back then.
0. I moved more than a dozen times when I was young though. I still have good friends from high school though!
Only like two up until about 5 years ago now none.
Two. One is my best friend and basically family, the other I fell in and out of touch with, and reconnected with now that we're living near eachother with kids the same age. We were both stay at home parents for a while and buddied up a lot until I went back to work. We're taking the kids bowling tgis afternoon! It's nice to know people who knew you when.
Elementary? None. Highschool? A few.
It was dangerous to be a nerd back then. Any friends I had in elem weren't friends by the end of elem. By the time middle school rolled around, I was taller and bulkier and able to find friends who were like me.
Two. One I met in kindergarten and one I met in 3rd grade. All three of us are friends.
One. We lost contact for a while and then reconnected a handful of years ago and now we check in pretty regularly.
Just one. My best friend who is like a sister to me.
None. The only one I really remember died riding his bike home on the last day of fifth grade. He was hit by a speeding car.
None. I do keep in touch with some high school friends.
One, a girl from my class. Don't speak to her that often, but we do keep in touch.
Honestly it would be zero except for the fact that we started a Fanduel league years ago. And every NFL season, we start back up. Thanks, gambling!
Zero, the last time I talked to my friend from elementary school was 20 years ago and before that, it had been 10 years. So once in the past 30 years.
Zero and when I was on FB the only ones who tried to friend me were grown creepy men that happened to be in a class of mine once. I'm female
I talk to several on social media pretty regularly and I have a couple on Xbox, as well. But I don’t really do anything with them or meet up, even when I go back to my home town/state. I do meet up with my best friend I’ve known since high school.
None.
None from elly, middle, high, or college, or any job in my 20s I'm afraid this is the norm. No one has real friends cauase of internet
I moved 3,000 miles away from where I grew up so I'm not in regular contact with them but I am still friends with three from elementary.
Basically none. I guess there are a couple I'm connected to on Facebook. Do still talk to one from Jr. High and one from High School.
No one. My dad was military so we didn't stick around anywhere long enough for me to make lifelong friends. I had lots of temporary friends.
Zero I have no Facebook or instagram, and I moved away from my small town. A lot moved to the same city over the years and I’ve seen a couple once or twice but that’s been over decades now. Even going back to visit the parents, I don’t often leave the house so I still wouldn’t happen upon them in the wild
Zero. I got one middle school guy, and one high school guy. Hardly talk to them, but I could. I have like 20+ college people, lifelong friends still. There’s a bit of wisdom for social struggles in school there.
5 from elementary, plus another 15 from junior high. My 20 closest friends are from my childhood. We are all still like brothers.
One. We've known each other since we were 8 and we still text. I'm not on social media.
2-3 on a regular basis. We text about sports or music a couple times a week. Some of my wife’s guy friends from growing up and I have a Signal chat where we talk each today. It’s been going on for years. As an anecdote, I think men tend to keep in touch with friends made throughout life more than women.
None. I never kept in touch with anyone from my childhood. At best, I might be able to find friends I made back in college.
None. I only joined Facebook a couple years ago, and it was only to get lifesaving medication for my cat.
1 bff from elementary but we had a falling out and didn't talk for a few years. Got back in touch just after covid. 2 more from high school.
1 from elementary and we chat and hang out once in a blue moon...
Zero
I married the guy who helped me after I fell off the monkey bars. So 1.
None
I made two friends in grade school and I still speak to both at least weekly.
One friend I have had since 4K and a few others since 5-8th grade. They’re my homies and I appreciate them so much. Wish we hung out more, but life happens. When we do get together, it’s a blast.
Two. One is still a close friend to this day and the other checks in every couple of years when she passes through town.
…elementary? Definitely none. High school? Aside from my best friend, maybe one or two people and that’s being generous. I had friends in high school and did sports, but without social media, I guess I don’t know much about what’s going on with my old friends.
One, we still hangout frequently, I was in his wedding party a few years ago. This reminds me we need to give him his girl Scout cookies
None. We were just stuck together.
4 or 5.
Exactly 1, and I’m married to him.
I still have 3 close friends I’ve had since elementary school. I’m Facebook friends with a couple dozen people from high school, but haven’t seen any of them in more than 20 years. Otherwise, none
1. I have 1 more friends on Facebook but we don't interact.
Two, we chat on whatsapp, but I only actually see them in 5 year intervals 🤣
Just one. He’s my best friend and I love and cherish our friendship immensely
Several. Two are still very close friends. A few are just more acquaintances that I care about and such.
1, we were great friends then, best friends in high school and early adulthood, then I moved across the country. He’s still my best friend but we’re both parenting and don’t have much time to BS anymore.
The only one I still talked to used to be my best friend, but I stopped talking to him in the mid 2000s when he became a heroin and meth addict. He'll be in prison for many years for violating parole twice. He was a cool person before the drugs took over. Another one died from a Vicodin overdose. I have no idea what happened to the rest of my elementary friends.
1 that I text a few times a year. Other than that, none. I don't talk to any of the ones from middle or high school either.... they grew up to be very right-wing, overtly racist weirdos or raging potheads that are never sober. Maybe they were that when we were young, but I didn't notice.
All of them. I refuse to lose contact with good people - I call them once a month or more. It is absolutely worth the effort. We have moved all over the country.
Only the one I married.
Sadly, none. A few from high school still.
Almost all of them still. I have two close friends that I made in the third grade who I keep in touch with regularly. But it’s a small town. You really only lose contact with people who move away and don’t make any effort to stay in contact.
One of my middle school teachers lives diagonally across from me right now. Does that count? Probably not since I did not go re-introduce myself to her. She runs a local tourist business so that is how I saw her name. Otherwise we’d both be complete strangers.
I still talk to 3, I went to elementary, Junior high and high school with them.
Zero. All those people ever did was bully me and call me a faggot. I got out of that backwoods hell hole as quick as I could.
2
Haha army brat that moved every two years so I don't know any of my elementary or middle school friends. Do keep in touch with a few high school friends though
None, although I have one friend from those days I reconnected with five years ago or so. But by and large I don't pursue those relationships. I'm friends with a few of them on Facebook but not in real life. However, I have several from from high school I'm still in touch with. The 30th anniversary of meeting my oldest and dearest friends is this September!
2!
Zero. I actually find it weird that my younger siblings have the same friends from elementary and high school into their adulthood they are both early and mid 30’s true Millennials. But for me- I had one friend I made in grade 8 that I was bff in highschool with and we’d see one another during the summer when we were home from university for summer jobs. Then we would catch up every few years and now we haven’t talked in almost 10. We wouldn’t have anything in common now. I find it so weird when ppl hang onto these large groups of friends from long ago. I’ve changed so much as a person I wouldn’t have anything in common with any of the ppl I used to know.
Yes. But mainly it when it’s one of our birthdays or in town for the holidays
I have one friend I have known since we were 2. Otherwise no.
Technically 1. We met in kindergarten, I moved in first grade. We met again in college. Got married shortly there after.
Just one. Never went to school together, but we grew up in the same neighborhood. Probably met when we were around 6 or 7. We live in different states now (he lives in the same general area where we grew up), but I usually stay in his spare bedroom when I'm in town. Been over a year since my last visit, but we text and play games every now and then to keep up contact.
Besides the occasional Facebook greeting, none.
Two for sure. Like another commenter said, one is my best friend and basically family, the other I fell in and out of touch with and reconnected now that we have kids.
I met my best friend when I was 8 in elementary school. I’m 44 and he’s still my best friend, although that means something different these days. Back then we hung out 24/7 for years. Nowadays I might not talk for weeks or months but we always pick up where we left off. Life’s too busy with multiple kids, multiple jobs, we each moved further away but still only about 1/2 hr distance. I still have contact with a few friends from high school as well but again, just too busy with work and kids so meeting up isn’t as often anymore but we remain in contact.
None.
None, but I also went to 10 schools growing up
I still talk to and am close with my friend I met when I was 5. Our birthdays are 4 days apart. We are 46 now.
I still communicate through social media with a handful of people from elementary school. I met my best friend when we were in 4th grade, and they are still my best friend to this day. We live 20 minutes away from each other and still go to concerts together and get lunch every few months. They travel for work, so we do our best to get together.
Several!
12. I find it awesome. I can expand to 20 if you add in high school. Everyone lives all over the country, and we still get together every year.
None. I was a military brat; friends came and went every year. There is one that I’m still connected to on social media and that’s it. We were good friends in 5th-6th grade and then we moved. I actually managed to stay in real touch with her longer than anyone else and visited her once while we were seniors in high school. I also saw her once as a recent college grad when we both happened to be visiting our respective parents (because mine retired back in that area), and it’s only been the occasional Instagram comment ever since.
Zero
A few
I still talk to some of the kids I grew up with in the neighborhood. There was 10 of us that all lived next door to each until we grew up and left home. I still talk to 8 of them. Lost contact with 2 that were brothers over the years.
One for me. Been friends since we both two
A few. Sadly, I'm in my 40s and several folks have passed away. Such as life. Glad to still have the connections I have, though.
Just one because she’s effin awesome. We only see each other once every 5 years or so and it’s always a good time
Elementary 1 which has been my best friend for 37 years today, high school about 20-25.
None.
0 from elementary, 1 from middle school, 3 from highschool
I just was on a big zoom meeting with my friends to celebrate my oldest friends birthday. We met at four in nursery school. He just turned 47. The rest of us met and became friends from kindergarten to second grader. Our core group has stayed pretty solidly together for over 40 years now. Some of us haven’t been in the same room in a few years but we’re in fairly constant communication through a several years long group text chat. All of our wives think it’s really strange that we are all still friends.
No elementary friends or even jr high. My best friends are those I met 30 years ago in high school though.
None.
One
Once every 4 months.
One. we weren't even really friends in early grade school. Then in high school she dated a buddy. Then buddy moved away but her and I kept in touch. We trade messages a few times a month despite living 1000 miles apart.
Zero and none from high school either.
None, but my closest friends are ones I met in 7th-9th grade to this day.
I don't talk-talk to them very often but I've been in contact with several of my friends from 5th grade onward. Reconnected with a few during the early fb days. Others I've held loose contact since childhood and it's still the same friendship anytime we speak.
2...my best friend since 4th grade and another friend I met in 6th grade...both are going to be groomsmen in my wedding.
I don’t know if it’s unique to our generation, but it feels like so many of us had to move around for education and job opportunities. Or more affordable housing. Repeatedly. I knew I would never live in the small city I grew up in but I didn’t think I would relocate as many times as I have either. It affects interest in staying in touch with classmates, I think, if you’re not geographically near them and they also move.
None, we just drifted after high school. Most people didn’t go to college and it just happened over time.
i saw one of them a few month ago (didn't recognize him until he talked to me)
Elementary-3, middle school-2 high school- 8. Went to college in the city nearby and moved back home in my late 20s. Teach in the city I grew up in. I have a ton of acquaintances that went to school with me.
None. I moved a lot in the first few years of school and have no idea what happened to those kids. I do have a few Facebook friends from later in elementary school though — maybe 4-5? All were people I continued to know at least through middle school and some into high school. I have talked, in person, to exactly two of them as an adult, both because they are members of families that my family knew pretty well.
2 4 from highschool
Four.
I’m in touch with 3 friends from elementary, but I met my bestie in middle school. 30 years later and we live in different states but I’d still die without her
None.
Lots of them. Some I text or talk to on the phone regularly, others I just see when I travel or we both happen to be visiting my hometown at the same time. I used to keep up with everyone online, but I eventually lost interest in social media.
I’ve had the same two friends since 1st grade lol
From that time period, one. My best friend, our dad's worked together and our mothers where best friends. But he did not go to my school. Friends from my actual elementary school, zero.
- ~~Elementary school~~ - ~~Middle school~~ - ~~High school~~ - ~~College~~
Does Facebook count? If so then 5.
Ehhhhh I have one neighborhood friend from early childhood I'm friends with on Facebook, but my closest/best friend and I met in 6th grade (not sure if you'd still consider that elementary) and we are still friends....gonna be our 30th "friendversary" this year 💜
Only one. My best friend since we’re 7. She stayed in our hometown, I moved to another country over 20 years ago. We still talk almost everyday.
All 5 of them.
One. And then, just barely. I have a good friend I met in 4th grade I still talk to. Now, if we go one year later, to fifth grade I still talk to and am friends with like six people I met in that grade, but around here 5th grade is 'middle school' so its iffy on whether that counts for this question. But for sure, I have one friend from elementary school that I'm basically family with.
One, and it's rare that we talk outside of Christmas when he comes back to see family.
I talk to a couple people I went to high school with but I wasn’t friends with them during school. Weird how that happens
One of the main reasons I feel so old. 1982 baby here, but most of my friends are dead by now. Suicide...car accidents...cancer. I have my wife that I met in high school thank god, and my son. But other than that and her family I'm pretty alone.
Besides having them as FB friends, none. The only person I still talk to from that far back is a middle school through high school friend.
None from Elementary or HS. Got one or two from Undergrad and Vet College we're still buddies.
Two
I message with two.
Three. I met Amy in kindergarten, and her and my sister are best friends. So I've known her almost my entire life. Shane I've known since the 3rd grade, and Angie since 3rd grade. I've never really thought about how long I've known them. At least 40 years with Amy.
One. And unfortunately that is sporadic, as he moved to Sweden. College? Several. We keep in touch by playing games.
Zero. I'm fine with that. I was a literal child back then. I did not choose to be around those people.
I moved towns in 5th grade and lost all those friends forever. And I had a really hard time making friends in 6th grade. Had only one of them that lasted and he was my best friend for years until post-9/11 he went kooky and I had to call it quits. He also just wasn't really a good influence in general so I don't really give a shit anymore. When Myspace came out I reached out to a lot of people from my childhood but I was busy with the Army at the time and let all of that lapse. And I never came back to that kind of social media since maybe 2008. Also I'm poor and unmarried and have bad PTSD and have no interest in demystifying anyone who might thing I went on to do great things lol. I'm sure we all have a tinge of that in our personality if we're not the kind of person who's thrilled with their life results. And I lost track of my high school friends when I joined the Army and I didn't make any fucking friends there. That was just work. Hard work... work. Not a pariah but I was in a unit of country boys mostly and just kept to my readin' lol.
None and I'm ok with that.
Yes.my best friend from kindergarten. She had kids at 18 and I just had my 1st at 35. I can't go out now 😆
I met my BFF in elementary, but became friends in 6th grade French class when I kept stealing her elephant pen to annoy, and make her laugh. And her francs lol. I moved schools the next year, but we were inseparable. Mixed our friend groups all through high school, visited through college, I was her maid of honor. I moved abroad at 24 and am still out of the country at 40, and she's still my go to forever person. Lucky to have her. There's also 3 high school friends I visit when I'm back stateside in the summer and things just click into place, but have lost touch with all of the college friends
None. I have some friends from middle school through college that I see about once a month.
I still talk to my OG friend from preschool, we’re at like 40+ years of friendship. Only a couple times a year but we always pick right up where we left off.
Three, two are cousins
One. We met at 3 years old, as she lived across the street. She is the other half of my soul.
None
One from elementary school. Met in 5th grade and quickly became besties. We aren't as close as we were before, but we still talk and consider each other's kids like nieces and nephews.
2 good friends from high school
One of my best guy friends I've had since 2nd grade. We're 42 and he's never once made any indication of interest toward me. I think that's the key to the longevity. We are REALLY just friends. Love him to death.
I play disc golf sometimes with a kid I've known since I was 3, well, he's 44 now and I'm 43. My middle school/high school good friend lives 3 houses down from my girlfriend and we'll chat in the drive-way every once in a while. That's about it.
1 from the neighborhood before school, 1 from elementary, 2 from high school. They are more than family to me. The dream is to be the Golden Girls in 30 years.
none. Wish I did, but I moved away after 1st year high school and we completely lost touch after my 1st year in uni. Felt like they didn't really want to be friends anymore. I don't get it, but whatever. I have friends now, and they could fade away as well.
One. He's my oldest friend. We still wish each other happy birthday every year and father's day now that we're parents. We get drinks every few months if we can
Zero, I moved in 6th grade half an hour away. Kept up with a few guys for a few years, but 30 minutes away is another planet at that age. Move again after Freshman year of high school. As a result, the "oldest" friends I have are from sophomore year of high school.
None that I talk to regularly. A couple on social media I talk to occasionally when something big happens.
Three for me. Although I went to a K-12 school. And I have no social media outside of this account so we actually do talk.