Checking on old friends

I've been on this kick to look old friends I went to high school with. I'm not exactly sure why. I've heard that a lot of people I went to school with didn't turn out so well, so I guess I just want to see if the people I was "close" with are doing good. We had this one guy that I believe could have made it in professional sports. He was a phenom. He was a star running back, terrific at baseball, and wasn't cocky about it. He was fun to hang around and I can't remember one person in school that disliked him. During our senior year, he started hanging around the wrong crowd and smoking weed. One of his new compadres laced his joint with angel dust and the rest is history. He ultimately dropped out of school and the last I heard, he was in and out of jail. That was the start of the downhill slide for my graduating class. I think I've heard of a couple of other people that got hooked on drugs and it is really disappointing. Facebook has really helped to get back in touch with a lot of my graduating class and it does seem that everyone on their is doing good for themselves. Granted that's like 45 out 100+ people. I want to reach out to some other people, but I don't want to look like one of those crazy stalker people who reaches out ask how's everything going and then never say anything to them again. I've had that happen to me a couple of times when I was in the Navy. I guess I will just go for the "crazy" reach out and see how people respond. Let me know what you think...