Finding old friends

I've met a number of old friends on the internet, even one foreign pen pal I had lost touch with. The internet is great for things like that!

Yeah, I do, redkathy. Here in Brazil, Orkut it's a kinda popular community. Almost everybody has it's profile. Because of this, I found many of my old friends and old classmates in there. This week, a classmate of mine just found me.. I was so surprised 'cause I thought he wouldn't remember of me anymore.. ^^

Wow!! That must have been exciting for sure. Have you been able to get ahold of her sister and reconnect as well? 30 yrs. would be a long time. I was actually able to reconnect with my childhood friend quite a few yrs. back via finding the information online. But we found we were completely different now compared to when we were young, so we quit talking, but I would Love to still know updates on some of them if I could again as well.

yay thats so cool. thats happened to me alot especially with myspace, reunited with people i went to highschool with. or people who were once in my life and then for whatever reason are not now.

Actually I did that just today! Well Monday night I found someone on myspace I suspected was an old friend. He didn't have his photo or real name posted but everything else fit so...I tok a chance and sent a friend request along with a message only he would understand. My hunch was right! He sent me a message back today and we're starting to get caught up. He's always been in the area, I just didn't know quite where which is why we lost touch. Hopefully he'll be stopping by this weekend!

It's funny you mention facebook. I practically had the same experience. Years and years ago I used to know this guy. I met him via his mother as his mother and I were "roomies" while I was in the hospital for a minor operation. Harvey was about nine years younger but we became great friends, in fact I viewed him like a younger brother...at the time we were both into Star Wars movies (the earlier ones from the late 1970s)...he was also a Star Trek fan...he was also a photographer. So we remained good pals up until about twelve years ago..He had moved to NJ and we continued to talk on the phone or write but then he "disappeared". I tried to find out what the heck happened to him but couldn't find out anything. Then when I became computer savvy tried to find him that way...no luck. Then one day some months ago, I was at facebook and figured what the heck, and typed in his name--I couldn't believe it...I FOUND HIM...now we regularly email each other and catch up on what's been going on in our lives...but it was so great to find him again!