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I haven't, many old people don't have computers or have one but barely use it. Or they shun Facebook, I go on it rarely myself, or they have every privacy turned on, or you can't remember how to spell their last name.
Some people call themselves something other than their real names, so people can't find them and access personal information.
I have a FB account with nothing in it because I had to have a FB account to join my neighborhood's crime watch FB page. I don't use that account for anything else, and have no personal info on it.
I have a FB account with a false name I use for general purposes. Again, I have no personal info on it or any indication of my real name.
Yes! I have found quite a few. I was moved around a lot as a child and lost touch with a bunch of friends. Thanks to FB I was able to reconnect with them. It was very interesting to find out what they were up to and had done with their lives.
Im not retired, very shortly though . . . I resisted FaceBook to the end. But, I did look for people or 'spy' on them using my Wife's account. One thing that was hard for me is, I found people I thought I had a very deep and meaningful relationship with. These people meant a lot to me. I will always remember them and the great times we had. So, it was very hurtful--totally a "me" issue--when I found out they didn't see the relationship as meaningful as I did. Upon contact, they were lukewarm if they even bothered to write back. So now, I just let the past stay in the past and remember it for what it was. I won't bother people anymore. If you look for people, be prepared for possible unpleasant response
That did happen to me with one person. This gal was one of my best friends in high school, we double dated all the time and had 'sleep overs', etc.. I was a little hurt that she didn't even remember me! At first I thought it was because my name is completely different than back then but I guess not. Oh well.
AND my sweetie. We were in the same Marine squadron in the early 80's. There's a squadron fb page. That's where we were reminiscing about the plane that crashed into the base chapel during an air show.
I am in my late 50's. I found an old friend on Facebook that I lived next door to when I was in grade 7. We chummed around together when we were kids.
We emailed a few times and have mutually lost touch again. We just wanted to know how our lives were going, but have nothing in common now. That's fine with me (an obviously him too). I was just curious and so was he.
I have found Facebook to be about the best way to " connect" internet or otherwise. It's very personal, or as personal as you want it too be. It's got me in touch with my long lost Son with who we never were close, still not, but there IS some dialog., better than nothing.
I also this past year friended a classmate I had not seen in 55 years., we talk daily now. There have been several more contacts from my past girlfriends and classmates, all good encounters.......now if I could only find a couple of old wives, short hot relationships from 40 years ago..........
Oh, often!.......but of course, that is what I do. I found people before FB was popular. Part of it comes from having a great memory of what they were like and using that for entering keywords.
I recently reconnected on Facebook with a good friend of mine that I hadn't heard from in years. It took a while to sift through all the people with that name but worth it when I finally found him!
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