What do you feel when random people from your past suddenly message after years of no contact? Do you respond? or just ignore?

:) Every 3 or 4 years I receive an e-mail from an old high school classmate telling me how we were such great friends, reminding me of all the great times wh had in high school and that he wants to reconnect and close the gap.

I respond and validate his feelings and invest 4 or 5 paragraphs to bring him up to date to tell him about my life since those good old days.

And I don't hear from him again for another 3 or 4 years when he goes back to step 1 :)

I have mixed feelings about reconnecting. It's great to say hi again, but there's probably also good reason why you grew apart. For me, a reconnection may help keep me connected to my roots, but unlikely that I will pick up where we left off. We've both become different people over the years.

I will always respond, if I can recognize them. You can respond it formally/casually if you don't want to get involved with them.

Unless there was some really good reason to be suspicious, I'd be curious enough to want to find out why they were reconnecting that I'd respond.

I've done the same when I stumbled across someone I haven't talked to in ages.

Most of the time in the last few years, it's been either because they were looking for work or because they had work they thought I might be interested in.

Usually respond if I liked them

I wonder what's their sneaky agenda I'm unaware of. 🤔

Assuming we got along back then, it's nice to hear how they've been and what they are up to now.

Like on Facebook? I'm not interested in becoming friends of friends unless I already know them in reality.

I responded. It was deflating. Learned my lesson. It was how it was supposed to go is how I choose to look at it.:)

It never really happens. :)

Depends on the message. If we were on good terms I’d reply.

Usually surprised. It doesn't happen hardly ever. I usually respond.

Depends on who they are, and why we haven’t talked in awhile.

Depends on who it is and what they want

It depends who they are, and what I think of them.

Respond if we liked each other

Respond out of curiosity

It doesn't really happen.

Depends on who it is.

I would respond.

I would ignore .

Ignore!

Respond