In the not too distant past friends could easily lose touch with one another because life got busy, relationships drifted apart, people moved around and it was difficult finding school friends.
With the internet and nearly every person involved with one social networking group or another it’s almost impossible not finding school friends from the past. If you’re really interested in getting back in touch with the good ole days and finding school friends visit one of the following sites which will help you in your endeavor.
Classmates.com
You’ve probably seen the ads for classmates.com and thought about joining this social network to see if any of your high school or college friends are members. Randy Conrads had the ingenious idea in 1995 to create a social network that would make finding school friends so much easier than it used to be. Today the number of members reaches over 40 million, and that’s just within Canada and the United States. Classmates.com offers a biography section within your profile that allows others to see if you really are the Jesse Thompson from Centric High class of 89. What’s great about classmates.com is that it’s free to have just the basic membership which allows you to have a profile and view profiles of others. Classmates.com offers a fun way of finding school friends again. You may even see an old picture of you and the gang from middle school days.
Friends Reunited
As finding school friends became even more popular a British couple, Steve Pankhurst and Julie Pankhurst, decided in 2000 it was time for another social networking site that would literally reunite friends. It’s fittingly called Friends Reunited. The innovative site was started in their bedroom and was the first main site that dealt with friends finding school friends in the United Kingdom. School friends, university friends, military friends and all sorts of other connections could be rekindled by using this site.
Started as a way to connect Harvard University students, Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004. The notion took off and now over 175 million members have a profile on Facebook.com. Initially the goal was to keep networks of particular regions, colleges, high schools, etc. in close contact with each other but soon it expanded from just colleges to college and high school to just a general site used as a means of finding school friends or nonschool friends alike.
Before social networking and other sites were started sometimes the only way of finding school friends was to go to your high school reunion. Now, with sites like classmates.com, Friends Reunited and Facebook.com it’s easy to get in touch with friends, even friends from elementary school. If you’re truly interested in finding school friends take the initiative of joining one of these sites. Open up your yearbook and start finding school friends. They’re out there waiting for you somewhere.
Thu, Oct 8, 2009, by KNOWLEDGE BASE
Social Networks