My Question of the Day for 21 June 2010 – UPDATED
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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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I avoid reconnects I’m happy with the people in my life that’s why I don’t do facebook. But through twitter I do speak to my cousins more than I used to which is a great thing.
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LikeDislikeMost amazing reconnection has to be with a elementary school friend. I was in tears (literally) when I finally found him.
Eventually, he’ll find out a few things… like how I named a comic character after him.
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LikeDislikeI found my best friend from kindergarten. She had moved away when we were really little but then found each other just this year on facebook and it felt so nice to connect with such an old friend that I thought had long gone
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LikeDislikeI found a bunch of cousins on Facebook, and my half-brother, and his son and daughter who I last saw as infants.
If past family history had been an indicator, none of these connections would have been possible. Typical family split, this one doesn’t speak to the other.
We were just kids, with no involvement or blame in the drama, so it’s great to find each other on Facebook and start with a fresh slate, getting to know each other.
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LikeDislikewell, twitter has been my latest addiction, which has caused me to re-activate my facebook and even create some new ones. the best part of it is finding and befriending so many people and expanding my network base in the area of my focus: entertainment, activism, education, politics, etc. it’s not just social, but rather opportunities to build networks. it’s fast, easy, and instant. i see the ability to use it as a platform and a way to connect with a larger audience and to receive from that audience information. i have fun and yes have reconnected with some people. but that was not my intent. i didn’t know what to expect. but twitter has been very instrumental to my career, building a network, and making friends OFFLINE.
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LikeDislikeI’ve reconnected with many people on Facebook that I lost contact with. Its a great tool to keep you up-to-date with people that you see every day and also people that you don’t see that often.
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LikeDislikeWell, I wouldn’t call it a reconnection, but I have facebook to thank. This was years ago when facebook was only for college students & not open to the public (bet most people didn’t know that!) Anyway, there weren’t any real privacy concerns back then since it was all college kids. We would post on each others walls about parties we would be going to, concerts, etc I found it odd how this one girl would show up at every venue or event I attended. It didn’t matter where or when, she was there. I later on found out that she had a rep. for stalking people. The last draw was when she showed up to my friends going away party unannounced & uninvited. We had to call campus security to get her out. What sucked about it was that everyone was looking at us like we did something wrong because she was hysterical & crying.
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LikeDislikeWell, although I’ve accepted many “friend” requests on Facebook, I rarely go there, and I don’t talk to any one of the “friends” I’ve added. Those are ppl I went to HS with. I didn’t talk to them much more than I had to when I was in school…and from some of the posts I read from them, I REALLY don’t wanna talk to them now. I have “re-connected” with ppl I wish I was still estranged from. Given my FB non-activity, I can gladly say that I’m basically still estranged from them.
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LikeDislike(i don’t do FB)
i haven’t had any re-connections, as i really ain’t wanting to be found by anyone. (lol) i remain “incognito” online by never giving out my real name. anyone that needs to know me already knows how to reach me!
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LikeDislikeMost amazing has been with relatives. Many of us haven’t seen each other since the last family reunion several years ago and although promises are made to keep in touch, we never did. However, social media has injected a HUGE burst of energy into our family and we are using it to keep in touch more than ever before.
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LikeDislikeI would have to say that the most amazing thing is reconnecting with ex-girlfriends and people I had crushes on when I was younger.
I have matured a lot since my school days (meaning both high school and college), so I’m a different person to people who knew me then and reconnect with me now.
One woman, I have thought about since high school has resurfaced. It’s cool now because I have no intentions and she never knew I had any and didn’t like me like that now or then. So it’s a trip occasionally interacting with her.
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LikeDislikeMost amazing reconnection has been with exgirlfriends. And I say that because now I can talk to them and see where I went wrong. I learned alot. Plus because it is online there is no fear of us trying to reconcile something that did not work in the past.
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