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My Question of the Day: Social media has truly changed the way we interact and engage. Facebook, in particular, has reconnected us with people we haven’t seen and/or heard from in years. With that in mind, what has been your most amazing reconnection through Facebook or any other social media tool that you’ve used?

My 2 Cents: I’ve made two amazing reconnections through Facebook.

1) When I was nine, my family moved from Arkansas to Oklahoma. When I was 39, my parents moved back from Oklahoma to Arkansas and built their retirement home on the land they’ve own since our family left Arkansas.

I went to school with a boy named Marvin Jordan up until my family moved away, and we considered ourselves girlfriend/boyfriend. I put his name in Facebook search, and he popped up right away. He looks exactly the same as he did when I last saw him at the age of nine. When I asked him if he remembered me, he wrote back and said, “Yes, you were my girlfriend before you moved away.”

That was so thrilling!

2) I have a friend from high school who I’d wondered about over the last 20-some-odd years. When I went home for my 20-year hish school reunion in 2007, I was hoping to see her there, but she didn’t show up.

Again, using Facebook, I did a search for Shelly West. She popped up and it showed her living in the same area as me. I sent her a note and she was happy to hear from me, too.

We got to going back and forth through messages on Facebook, and we discovered that we’d been working in the same building for the last two years, two floors apart and never ran into each other.

A couple of days later, we got together in her office and had a blast of a catch-up session!

It was amazing!

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