Now what?

Arun: Hey, listen. Somethings happening to me.
Mohit: What?
Arun: In the last 4-5 weeks, I have met over 5-6 people from my past.
Mohit: You attended an alumni meet or something?
Arun: No, no. These are people from my distant past- my first boss of over 20 years ago, my class benchmate of over 30 years, my school friend after over 15 years and two collegue after over a dozen years.
Mohit: Wow! Must have been fun.
Arun: Thats the point. I didn't find it too much fun to connect.
Mohit: Why?
Arun: It foxed me, so I thought about it for a long time over last weekend. It seems to me now that the issue is over-familiarity. I had already sort of met them. With a linkedin profile peek , flikr photograph albums, facebook conversations , messanger chats, youtube videos, blogged thoughts and the texted twitter 24X7 shadowing, I knew what they had done every minute in the many many years that had passed between when I met them last and now. So when I met them it looked like I had met them last week !
Mohit: Ha
Arun : This is the age of extreme and instant familiarity. Imagine meeting the girl who sat on the same bench as you 30 years back and have nothing to say. Just because for the last 6 months you have exchanged so much information that you were almost on the same bench all along!
Mohit: You are so right.
Arun :The other day I met my first boss of 20 years back and we discussed things we could do together. There was no mention of the 20 years because that was what we discussed over the last 3 months !
Arun : Wonder how our relationships will be defined in the years to come with so much personal information hanging out in public, so furiously, so often.