Totally cool! Old friends!

[FFC]

So last week I found a friend that I've been looking for for years. I would search on Myspace and Facebook on occasion to see if she'd started an account. Well I struck gold last week when I found her brother. So we're back in touch and have been emailing back and forth and plan to meet up soon (she lives like 250 miles away).

Guess what happened last night? ANOTHER friend from 'back in the day' found me! She found me on Myspace, requested me as her friend, and I emailed her - still waiting to hear back.

What are the odds!!! 2 friends from before I was 10, within a week of each other. I'm psyched! And the second one lives here in Sacramento! I was "engaged" to her brother when I was like 8 :rofl: We have the same name (Justin, Justina) and our birthdays were close together :rofl: Well, we lost touch with the whole family years ago, and now I'm totally looking forward to catching up!

Anyone else have experiences like this with sites such as Myspace and Facebook?

[NOTKT]

Oh that's great! I love when those things happen! :cloppy:

[savepaws]

Don't you just love social networking!? I have found so many friends from the past. I recently found an old friend who had moved away when I was like 9. And I even found my friends from church camp. We used to write back and forth (like with real paper & snail mail!). I never ever dreamed I'd be able to stay in touch with them after all these years. We all lost touch once we graduated high school but thanks to facebook & myspace we are all connected again.

[WebLady]

Cool :)

I have run into people from high school on MySpace.

[FFC]

Cool :)

I have run into people from high school on MySpace.

99% of my classmates are on my Myspace, that's how I keep in touch with everyone :happy:

[ChristineLS]

I *love* facebook. Between that and the Russian version, vkontakte (literally, "in contact") I keep in touch with people that I got close to in very specific and not likely to repeat circumstances. That and people from high school and undergrad. I know people say it's not close, but without it most of these people would have vanished from my life, so I'm happy.

[Whitewater]

It's funny you should say that . . .

Just last night I found the boy from high school who was my first love ever, and who 'left' me under some pretty rotten circumstances. I put 'left' in quotes because we were never official, in fact, that was the big reason he ended our friendship, when I wanted more and he didn't feel comfortable with that, but I carried a torch for him for the rest of my life.

Well, the rest of my life being however long it took me to grow up and realize that high school relationships are best left in the past, when we're all young and stupid -- and that my wierd feelings for this boy were hindering my ability to have a real grown-up relationship.

So I got over him, albeit not without a regret that I still wanted to see him again somehow and apologize for some of the really stupid things that happened, but I never figured that would ever happen, so I put that all behind me too.

Until I found him on Facebook last night and he friended me, apparently with pleasure. I sent him a Facebook email, and he extended the friend invitation. I think now I'm just going to shut up, nail the last nail on the coffin, and forget about trying to bring up the past. He's clearly forgotten, and I've just as obviously really moved on, so there's no point.

Now I get to see if I can be adult friends with him without the high-school stuff interferring.


Whitewater

[mitch]

I don't use Myspace or Facebook. I intend to be the last one standing without them LOL.

But i did manage to hook up with a Friend i've known for 33 Years via Friends Reunited. Which is a School Friends site in the UK. Her Sister got in touch with Me. Turns out i've been driving past My Friends House for years. :bbeek: She lives 50 mile away from DH's Kids.

Another Friend from the very first Forum i ever joined managed to track DH and Myself down after an absence of Four Years. She assumed DH and Myself were still together and simply "Googled" our names. And up We popped. First a link to OW. :bbeek: Then an AC/DC Forum We Admin.

Just goes to prove We can run but We can't hide :rofl:

[Jacobs_Girl]

Very cool! I found my ex bestfriend that way too. From grade school, except now we are both grown up and have different perceptions in life and have nothing in common.

But it's great that social networks like this can help you get in touch with old friends. I found a lot of my high school buddies on there as well.

[SerendipityCrafts]

That is great Justina! Best buds are meant to stay together :)

When I first got a computer + the internet in 99, I went looking for a friend whom I had lost contact with. I eventually found her through yahoo people finder. One thing led to another and the next thing you know, I / we ended up planning a high school reunion. 2000 people attended and it is still the topic of conversation today

I don't use Myspace or Facebook. I intend to be the last one standing without them LOL.

Go on girl ... give it up. MS & FB aren't the same without you :rofl:

I keep meaning to check out Twitter because I am starting to feel like I am missing out :)

[gwenshack]

That's pretty cool! I don't have a myspace or a facebook, but over the years I've certainly run across people I used to know and it's always exciting to catch up with people you used to know!

[Dani]

I am addicted to FaceBook. I have had requests from friends from HS that I haven't seen since graduation day and that was 18 years ago! It is nice to everyone grown up and with families. :)

[Nekochanpurr]

Hehe!! i have a Facebook i don't really use.. In hopes people contact me.. Cuz i'm nosey! LOL
However, my old friends and i usually just keep in touch via Live Journal. We're so old school. XD

[mitch]

However, my old friends and i usually just keep in touch via Live Journal. We're so old school. XD

Old School is when You pick up the telephone and dial. Or even more ancient is when You write a letter. :winktongue:

I've been known to do both recently to people i've met via the Internet.

I've got a friend in America who i met through My first ever Forum. We write to each other on a regular basis. She doesn't have the Internet now. But We still stay in touch through "Snail-Mail".

It's when i get letters about Her Children that i realise time has flown by. Her Son was a Newborn when We first chatted online. He's been at School for years now. :bbeek:

[FFC]

:rofl: Mitch you are so right. However, since my wedding I do not trust old school (writing a letter and mailing it). A bunch of my invitations did not meet their destination :irked: So I'm quite reliant on email and PM's and comments and messages :happy:

[gwenshack]

Oh, I miss letters! I remember the first year I left for college e-mail hadn't totally caught on yet and all my high school friends wrote letters to one another. (Long distance was also still expensive...)

And then the summer after my freshman year all my college friends wrote letters to one another - and I still have a lot of those. It takes a lot of effort to sit down and write a letter, and there's that joy of getting something in the mail that's not a bill - I miss that stuff. :)

[igurbisz]

that is very cool, I actually made an account for facebook and myspace but never use them.

[amisteratwisterandme]

I have both facebook and myspace, but hardly go on them just because alot of people are kind of silly with it. But this last Monday one of my best friends contacted me with a message from my niece that I haven't heard from in 4 years. This is what it said:
Hi, my name is Samantha. I am Jan's niece and Mickey's daughter. I have been trying to get ahold of her or my grandma for a long time now, and my mom said that you probably could get in touch with her. We lost contact when we moved. Could you please give her my phone number?
This is my brother's oldest daughter. Last time I seen her was just after he and my grandma passed away. It's kind of like having a little piece of my brother back.
Apparently she asked to be my friend on myspace and I hadn't checked it for a few weeks so she contacted one of my friends. I cried when I heard from her. So my opinion of myspace has totally changed. It is good for something.

[Karyanne20]

Both of these websites have gotten me in contact with a lot of people. It seems when I add one person, I end up being added by people that they are friends with that I know.