Not from Facebook – way further back than that – I got my biggest surprise of this kind. I belonged to a forum RPG on Prodigy back in the mid-nineties. One of the people on there had a guy’s name on login, played a male character, and self-identified as male. We got quite close and fifteen-year-old me had a pretty good crush going.
Turned out the person I knew was actually the wife of the person whose username she logged in under. She wanted to be taken seriously when writing a male character and kept up the charade for quite some time. I was really upset when I found out, but we ended up meeting when I went to college and became pretty good friends for a while.
Found out that a girl who was a senior when I was a sophomore in high school, who I may have known (via the same social circle, sort of) was a porn star.
I got one of those. Back on myspace all of my HS class mates were friending this girl. I had no idea who it was. But then, there’s a handful of people from my HS class I don’t know, so I just chalked it up to that. Then when facebook started up, there she was again. Finally decided to look her up on my yearbook. She, now, is a somewhat well known (at least within her industry) European model and DJ. In high school she was the quiet mousy little junior varsity tennis player.
Also, my unrequited HS love turned out to be a cow and the little punk who treated me like shit all though HS still appears to be a giant douche bag.
Most everyone I went to high school with seems to have found Jesus. Every one of my old partying friends has become some sort of vocal Christian, except the one guy who would have probably been considered a bully by today’s terms. He’s now some bigwig in Nation of Islam and from his FB photos seems to have a pretty sweet life.
I’m guessing the ones who’ve made the biggest changes don’t bother much with Facebook. Several I have no doubt are in prison.
My junior-high boyfriend (in name only–we never even kissed, and that was fine with both of us), a painfully shy Asian guy, is gay and in a long-term relationship, buffed out, tattooed, and likes to post shirtless photos of himself on FB. I’m happy for him, that he now seems to be a lot happier and comfortable with himself.