Finding People

lukin2006

With the internet, and now facebook, my space and other social web sites emerging as extremely popular websites how many people have looked up old friends or acquaintance's? have much success? did you find some people who just would not reply even though you know it was them?

Myself I went to School pre-internet and cell phone age, and long distance calling was a liitle expensive for young people, and most of the people went off to college or work away from the community so many of us lost touch. I have had some success myself, found my childhood friend who moved away before high school.

So this is just a little fun and curious question.

Jeanie

I signed up for facebook at the suggestion of a friend, but to be honest I don't get it.

All the people that I want to have contact with in my life are in my life.
Don't really feel the need to "find" folk from school.
It's weird really. Maybe if I'd grown up with all this internet bizo I'd be more interested?

lukin2006

Jeanie wrote:

I signed up for facebook at the suggestion of a friend, but to be honest I don't get it.

All the people that I want to have contact with in my life are in my life.
Don't really feel the need to "find" folk from school.
It's weird really. Maybe if I'd grown up with all this internet bizo I'd be more interested?

To me it was different, I graduated school in the mid 80's without the internet, and most people went off to school or moved to a different part of the country so it was easy to lose, it didn't mean u didn't want to be freinds, just not as easy to communicate and keep touch then.

Jeanie

beemster wrote:

To me it was different, I graduated school in the mid 80's without the internet, and most people went off to school or moved to a different part of the country so it was easy to lose, it didn't mean u didn't want to be freinds, just not as easy to communicate and keep touch then.

I probably don't make sense. I just meant that this internet networking bizo is all new to me and I've kept in touch with those people from school that I wanted to keep in touch with, the old fashioned way, with the phone and landline at that! I can't think of anyone I went to school with that I want to catch up with now really. I mostly only got onto this internet business because I went back to uni a few years ago and ALL the kiddies were playing with the internets.
It's probably great if you are trying to catch up with people. Good for families and friends living far apart.

lukin2006

Jeanie wrote:

I probably don't make sense. I just meant that this internet networking bizo is all new to me and I've kept in touch with those people from school that I wanted to keep in touch with, the old fashioned way, with the phone and landline at that! I can't think of anyone I went to school with that I want to catch up with now really. I mostly only got onto this internet business because I went back to uni a few years ago and ALL the kiddies were playing with the internets.
It's probably great if you are trying to catch up with people. Good for families and friends living far apart.

I see your point, I live in Canada, so if someone moves away that could be many many miles away, lol, very vast country.

Jeanie

beemster wrote:

I see your point, I live in Canada, so if someone moves away that could be many many miles away, lol, very vast country.

Yes!

I have friends on the other side of Australia. It's a good way to keep in touch.

Just not sure I wanna catch up with old schoolfriends, mostly because they show up on the tele on Australia's Most Wanted anyway! :eek:

JaneNY

All the people that I care about, I have contact with, without the need or use of the internet. I have no interest in tracking anyone else down. I guess I'm kind of antisocial.

lukin2006

Like I said just curious, if people have tried.

Brain of J.Lo

I've gotten in touch with a few people from high school. (I graduated 10 years ago this spring...so it was around the time that people were really getting into using the internet. Because of that, it's pretty easy to track a lot of people down from my class. Its kind of fun to see where people's lives have gone. But I don't take it too far. I have even less in common with those people now than I did back in high school...and that's really saying something.

South of Seattle

I have. I had friend who had Crohn's about 15 years ago and he started doing Herion because that was all that stopped his pain. I tried to find him to see if he was doing ok, never found him :(

lukin2006

I garduated in the mid 80's before all the internet and cell phone stuff, so it was real easy to lose track, I am mostly curious, but don't carry it to far. I find men more likely to respond and seemingly wanting to reconnect, which I found interesting.

xavier mcdaniel

the best was forming a friendship with someone i went to junior high school and high school with but never talked to. so in that regard, things like myspace are ok.

xscorcho

ive tried finding a really good friend from when i was younger with no luck.... i still search for her sometimes on facebook so we'll see.

other than that... ive found a few people and a few people have found me.. its always good to catch up... its been difficult to keep in touch with people because ive moved so many times since highschool.

lukin2006

xscorcho wrote:

ive tried finding a really good friend from when i was younger with no luck.... i still search for her sometimes on facebook so we'll see.

other than that... ive found a few people and a few people have found me.. its always good to catch up... its been difficult to keep in touch with people because ive moved so many times since highschool.

Yes, I moved quite a bit since high school as well.

xscorcho

beemster wrote:

Yes, I moved quite a bit since high school as well.

i just signed up for myspace now since i have some friends on there that arent on facebook.... ones that i really want to message... ive managed to avoid myspace until now dammit!

pejay

i found some of my old classmates that i lost contact with after school. and i felt sorry for that (loosing contact). i as well found some other people that are taking important part in my life and who disappeared for some time for this and that reason with the help of such web sites. so yes they turned out useful for me. they as well help me to stay in touch with some people at the moment due to my new living conditions that are not very handy in some ways (including keeping in touch with people!).

lukin2006

For me I'm a lot more curious to see how people made and for the most part the old friends I have come across seem to be doing well. I am most interested in a girl who i became friends with while working at a summer job and remained friends for a bit while I was in college and she in university, then I transfered schools to a different city and then unfortunately we lost touch. I was never a letter writer, and long distance phone calls were out of the question. I have managed (i think) to locate an email for her at her work, but with the way companies emails and firewalls are set up, you never know if its ends up being routed write to the trash as spam, where I work I hve found personal emails in the trash marked as spam, and she lives thousands of miles away with an unlisted number. The only other option is a pen/paper letter, but I'm hesitant because if she has a husband/boyfriend I do not want to cause problems, he though all we were were friends, I may try one email, and see where that takes me.

Deep_DK

I have been found on Facebook by some people I met travelling. It has been great fun to catch up with them. And I have also made contact with people I went to school with. I'm a curious person, so I love Facebook.

I have been trying to find a girl I did volunteer work with, but didn't succeed...

lalalalaaaaaaaa

I really haven't used myspace/facebook to look up people I knew a long time ago...I guess I'd feel creepy doing that, but then again, I might not mind if someone from way back sent me a message out of the blue.

Deep_DK

Saturnal wrote:

I really haven't used myspace/facebook to look up people I knew a long time ago...I guess I'd feel creepy doing that, but then again, I might not mind if someone from way back sent me a message out of the blue.

If you wouldn't mind getting a message from someone from way back, the people you might consider looking up, probably wouldn't mind either.

I didn't think the people who looked me up was creepy, even though I wonder why some of them did look me up

faithful227

I use both Myspace and Facebook on a regular basis. I have moved several times in my life, and of course have lost track of some people through that process. They allow to me to keep up with people that I may not talk to on a regular basis without the internet. Of course I have my close circle here that I talk to on those sites too. I talk to you a few of you from here on there as well.

I don't know, they work for me

lukin2006

Yea, I'm a curious person so I like to see what people I know have been up to, but so many have moved away to god knows where.