Linnaea and Gudren found that the internet makes it a small world.
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Linnaea Hanson, a native of Minnesota had a pen pall in Norway named Gudren who she communicated with in the fifties as a Campfire girl. They were pen palls from 1950 to 1955. They lost touch but Linnaea always remembered Gudren. While surfing the net 45 years later Linnaea thought about Gudren and reached out to people in Norway to help find her. A man wrote back that he had found her, and amazingly he had.
Linnaea found that she and Gudren in spite of the miles between them had led similar lives. They both had been married fifty years, each had two children and many grandchildren. Gudren had named one of her daughters Linnaea. Her friend had not forgotten. The two old friends continue to keep in touch and have passed on the pen pal tradition to two granddaughters who are now pen palls.
Another net user is Nick S. of Pleasant Grove, Ohio. Nick is on line looking at email and exchanging news and photos with family and friends before breakfast. His chat friends include 3 friends he found on the Internet after 50 years. When he and wife traveled across country in their RV they logged in on computers in libraries so friends and family could follow them on their travels. You really can’t be out of touch anymore unless you want to.
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I’m a frustrated writer confesses Chuck B. Now since I’ve retired I can talk, tell tall tales, embellish the best parts and ignore the rest on the Internet. Chuck has a blog where people can read entries, respond and connect. People from over 20 countries have read his blog. He writes about all sorts of things. Among other things he wrote about the four month Manson trail and landing a blimp on an aircraft carrier. Chuck says, ” The beauty of retirement is having the time and energy to develop new interests, why I hardly know how I had the time to work.”
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September 29th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Wow, this is some story. I have also been able to reconnect with people who I haven’t been in touch with in years. You should check out my 100,000 page visits… post and click on the links in it to see what I am talking about.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Yes, how true!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I use the internet for family history and I have been able to make contact with cousins that I didn’t know I had!
September 29th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I met my husband on the internet, in a Chat room for The Amazing Race TV show, we would have never met if not for the internet, plus being freaks we wouldnt have met anyone we liked in real life in our area.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Sometimes Internet can be a beautiful and true story! Very interesting and enjoyable read, as usual.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I have made contact with old friends from college and high school too. Very nice article.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
It has become a useful tool. I have friends, I can keep up with by e-mail and my bunch of Triond friends are like a second family.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
It is a useful tool with it I can up with old friends daily by e-mail and my bunch of Triond friends are the best.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
It’.s o.k. Friends, strangers…….and really strange.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Wonderful post! .. I agree with you 100%..so true..Thanks:)
September 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I agree with you, Ruby, the Internet has made it a small world!!
September 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
The internet can be a wonderful tool….I’ve found some friends that I’d lost touch with too! The trouble is that sometimes, you don’t want to found either!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I don’t want to find anyone. And I don’t want them to find me; but they could if they wanted to.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I see B. already shared our story in the comments. Yeah we’re freaks. lol
Nice article Ruby.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Very interesting story. It’s really a small world
September 30th, 2009 at 3:22 am
I met really interesting people from all over the world on line.Great article.
Thank you for your kind comment.
September 30th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Thank you my friends. I appreciate you all as usual. We can’t get lost anymore even if we want to. I look up any address I want and a map leads me right to the house.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Great Article, with the internet you can speak, write to anyone anywhere in the world and it can be cheaper that making a telephone call.
The title fits the article to the T
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Nice story! I agree with you, Internet helps us a lot to find old friends. I could manage to find my elementary school friends because of it.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:19 am
i agree to all of you!