I used to wonder a lot what happened to all my old school mates as I'd moved away at 16 and didn't have a clue. Then came Friends Reunited and I met up with a couple of them. It was nice to see them but we only did it once. Once was enough. When all the catching up had been done we didn't have a lot in common so my curiosity was satisfied.

That said, I'm going to a work reunion with people I've not seen for about 10 years in a couple of weeks. I still see a few of them regularly and work with a couple now, but as far as the others go, if I had wanted to see them or them me, we'd have kept in touch.

I'd still be quite keen on a school reunion however, just to see what everyone looks like. It's been almost 30 years. We don't have to be friends for life but it would be fascinating to see how those I didn't manage to track down through Friends Reunited have turned out and what they've become.

As I was only 27, the memory of school was too fresh for me to even consider going. Once I'm past 40, if one comes up I might feel a bit more inclined. But only if I can get there by helicopter with about five supermodels in tow...

Do people go just to see if they're more successful than others they schooled with? Or am I just a cynic.

And after thinking about it, I didnt bother going. Not sure what there was to gain from it, it these had really been my people I would have surel;y kept in touch (in fact I do keep in touch with my two closest school friends, neither of whom went).

I did look at the pictures on a website they set up of the night (even the old headteacher was there, who looked from the photos like he was lucky to see the evening out) and they all looked, well, fortysomething, some fat, some (most, the men anyway) balding. The trouble is no-one sees theirselves in that way, so to look at your peers from 30 years ago, having not seen a single one in the meantime, except the two friends who I have seen at least yearly since then so it doesnt count and as for the rest, well I moved out of my home town after college, is a startling reminder of the ageing process.

Also, to be honest, my wife wasnt keen on me going either, as she thought I might rekindle a shooldays romance (to be fair to her this was at the height of newspaper stories relating tales of marraiges breaking up due to friends reunited!).

College friends I have kept or reconnected with tended to be the people I socialised with the rest well they we just old "work colleagues" really and the only things I had in common with them was going to the same lectures and eating toast in the same dank kitchen.

I have met up with an old friend via the net and it was really good after a few minutes in the pub it was like he'd just gone to the bog and come back 20 years later (this is helped by him looking virtually the same the cad).Also the net means we have kept in touch in a light none over the top way since and meet up when our paths cross.You can never have too many friend I always reckon.

I went to a big Swansea Uni reunion 14 years after I left. I was single at the time. The decor in my room in the hall of residence was unchanged; it was like going back in time to 1974, but it wasn't hunky dory. I'd thought that having grown up I'd no longer be shy of talking to some of the attractive women there... but to my disappointment I hadn't changed a bit. There weren't many people there that I knew. I fled early the next morning, chastened and depressed, never to return.

..but about 8 or 9 years ago I got back in touch with a friend that I'd always regretted losing touch with after school (late 1980s) via Friends Reunited. We emailed on and off and she invited me to her wedding which I couldn't make. We drifted again until Facebook took hold and then had some really funny chats via that and I was really pleased to be in touch again even if it was an 'unreal/virtual' kind of rejuvenation of our friendship. Last year I heard via the media that she'd been murdered; we'd only been joking the night before and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I cried buckets and still can't really make any sense of it. The trial will be later this year and I'm not confident there'll be a good outcome (whatever that could ever actually be). But I went to the funeral and met up with another old neighbour and friend there who I hadn't seen for years and subsequently met up with her sister, who I also used to know well, but who lives overseas now which was, in some way, some kind of compensation for the loss but also incredibly weird.

Last autumn one of my dearest friends died really suddenly and again it knocked me for six. I miss her every single day and find managing life without her to be a real challenge, but because we saw each other often and texted, emailed and phoned all the time too I have no regrets that she didn't know how much she meant to me, or vice versa, which is a huge comfort.

So in answer to your question I'd say if there were people there that meant something to you once and you haven't seen in a long time and always wondered what happened to them then go and enjoy seeing them again and see if there's anything there worth rekindling, because there might be; but if it's just mild curiosity I wouldn't bother and instead concentrate your energies on the people who you love in the here and now because, though it's a cliche, you never know what's roudn the corner.