Finding Long Lost Friends

Do you ever wonder what happened to the skinny kid who sat right behind you in Math, could do all the problems in ten minutes and yet never offered to help you? And how about the girl with the two swinging braids, who lived right across your home and was your best friend through the early school years? If you have but have never known how you could find out, well – wait no more. Through social networking sites, it is now very easy to reach out to long lost friends.
Relationships keep changing in our life; friends come and go. However, there are some whom we never forget as we have some very special memories of them. We will now see how we can use social networking sites to rediscover these loved and lost, old friends.

A social networking site is merely a site that allows its users to create a profile for themselves and share, through this profile, news, photos, videos and any other information. Different users have different purposes of creating a profile. Some may feel that this a great way to meet new friends while for business people, social networking sites are a great place to advertise their products or services. However, one of the major draws of these social networking sites has been their ability to make it so easy to find and reconnect with old friends, neighbors and acquaintances.

If you are wondering how you may be able to meet your dear friends on a social networking site, you should understand that there are currently a very large number of these sites on the Internet. This means that you have a good chance to finding them on at least one of them. By being a member of a few of them, you are increasing your chances of meeting and reconnecting with an old friend.  Further, these social networking sites also use different tools to locate friends.

For example, you can start looking for a friend by searching for their name or nickname, the high school they went to or a career or profession they took up. Most often than not an email address is all that is needed to find the person – after all an email address is unique. However, what if you do not know the person’s email address or what could be more frustrating, that there are thousands with the same name and surname?

Well, you could start a digital mail search by providing some details, like the name and surname. This should help start the search process. If successful the process will provide you with the email address of the person you are looking for. You can now look up this person on the site. Now, if you have an email, you could prove lucky and find that it is indeed the person you have been looking for.

Sites like Facebook and MySpace not only allow you to spread your social network and make new friends, they also allow users to reconnect with old friends, facilitating numerous happy reunions.