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My girlfriend had lost contact with her mother for over 6 years and recently found each other on Facebook. They reunited a couple of weeks ago and have been com
by terpua 16y ago
My girlfriend had lost contact with her mother for over 6 years and recently found each other on Facebook. They reunited a couple of weeks ago and have been communicating ever since. They are both so happy.
That's pretty world changing for her.
- corin_ 16y agoWhy hadn't she been in touch before? I find it slightly far-fetched that she had actually tried to get in touch before, and the only way she managed was through facebook.
- megablast 16y agoMaybe just the fact that it makes it so easy for people to look up other people. All you need is there name, and know what they look like. Pretty hard to do that anywhere else.
- terpua 16y agoUnfortunately, lost phone numbers, non-permanent home address and the lack of a white pages made it impossible.
- jaspero 16y agoSeriously? Your GF needed Facebook to reunite with her mother? As stereotypical as I may sound, but she needs to get her life back and socialize beyond Facebook. It's simply absurd.
- robryan 16y agoWell, if you have been completely out of someones life for long enough, calling them or meeting them at first could be awkward enough to discourage either person to put the effort into setting it up. With Facebook you open up a very non committal link into each others lives, where you may send each other the odd message, comment on what each other is doing, without getting right back into things straight away.
- dannyr 16y agoI have a similar story. I have not been in touch with my dad in the Philippines for almost 20 years. We lost contact when my mom, brother and I moved and we didn't have telephones back then. Last year, my half-sister found my brother and me on Facebook. It was good to learn to that my dad is still alive and got to talk to him after all these years.
- throwAway_29 16y agoThat's definitely world changing... regaining touch with one's near and dear.... The specifics of your girlfriend's case apart....Losing touch with one's own mother.. for 6 years??@!#@!#, and Facebook re-uniting them?? Unless this was a forcible separation due to a natural calamity/war... (in which case my heart-felt sympathies) anything like this is really inexcusable. I really,really find that sad if the current, or future generation would be requiring Facebook/Twitter to keep in touch with one's parents. That trivializes relationships.