Getting in contact with a long lost friend

Friends Forever:It's hard getting in contact with a long lost friend, especially if it's been years of no contact and no communication between other friends or family members on each side. However, there is a key phrase in finding that one person you cared about in the past, "Don't give up on searching."
== Steps ==
#  Think and try to remember their first and possibly their middle name(s). This is your starting point. The last name may be tricky in some situations, as they might be married, divorced, or adopted and have changed it since you last saw them. They might be certain people that have paid to legally change their first and last names with the government, as this route would be impossible to track down only using the bare essentials of finding someone. Note down everything you can remember about your friend such as Date of Birth, middle initial even their hobbies and interests as this may give you a successful lead in tracking them down.{{largeimage|FindOldFriend Step 1.jpg}}
# Get in contact with other people that knew the specific person you're searching for. Ask them questions about when they've last seen them, talked to them, or any personal information like last known email addresses or phone numbers. Just be advised that they might not give such information out, due to (the friend's) preference. Sounds obvious but it's also worth combing your address book to see if you have written down any connections to them that you have forgotten about.{{largeimage|FindOldFriend Step 3.jpg}}
#  Browse on Facebook to see if they hold an account. You can search by school, name, or email address. Browsing can be filtered by age groups, height, number of kids, gender, distance of postal code areas, and other useful information. Other social networking sites such as Myspace and Bebo are also other excellent sources to find old friends. Also consider looking at LinkedIn which is a professional contact network.{{largeimage|FindOldFriend Step 4.jpg}}
#  Search on the free people search engines such as http://find-people-free-search.com. This can save you money and provide you with a lot of relevant information.{{largeimage|FindOldFriend Step 5.jpg}}
#  Post a message on a free friend-finder board. These sites are message boards that are moderated by "search angels" or volunteers with special people search tools. Put in a request and they'll go looking for you. An example of a free forum is http://consumer-warning.org/lost-friends-board.{{largeimage|FindOldFriend Step 6.jpg}}
#Search Interest, Hobby and Occupation Relevant Websites. At the start of this article, noting down your friend's hobbies and interests was mentioned. Looking on the internet there are forums and websites dedicated to a whole host of clubs, societies and interests. Then as well as using lost friend bulletin boards, if you have a rough idea of the person's location and what they like to do, try to find a web site related to that topic.  Similarly your friend's occupation might also give you a lead, there are bulletin boards and forums related to different professions from nursing through to ex forces personnel so that is another area where you could consider looking.
#Use the Electoral Roll. For those in the UK, I am unsure of the system in the US, carrying out an electoral search is the next best step if you have exhausted the resources listed above. There are three ways you can search the electoral roll.To do it for free, you have to physically go to the council offices and look through the electoral register. The other two ways require you to pay for an external company to do the work for you. It will either be in the format of a premium pay phone number where someone searches whilst you are on the phone or where you submit your details, pay a one off fee and then they contact you with the results. For a one off electoral roll search do not pay more than £5. A review of electoral roll search services is provided .
#Do Some Background Reading.

== Tips ==
*Try signing up and joining facebook groups of your old schools or search for your friends on it!
*If you are looking for an old friend  there are cost effective professional services that will find your old friend for you. If you want to find them yourself then consider using marriage records. If your old friend is a woman then it can help to know where she married and what her new name is.
*There are various services for locating people, if you do decide to use a professional service to find an old friend make sure it is specific to the county you are in and the county the person you are looking for lives in.
*For some high school graduations, pamphlets list what colleges or scholarships students are planning to attend or have achieved. Using that, you'll have more of a general idea of where people are.

== Warnings ==
*Expect different reactions; as they might have had a grudge on you from past experiences and may have disconnected the friendship for a reason, they might have wanted to move on from the past and wouldn't consider rekindling a friendship now, or they might just become your friend or best friend again.
*There is a big Classmates.com warning about memberships. Once you pay for membership, it automatically goes as auto-renewal and it is known as one of the hardest subscriptions to get out of.
== Sources and Citations ==
*[http://www.classmates.com Classmates.com]
*[http://www.myspace.com Myspace Homepage]
*[http://www.facebook.com Facebook Homepage]
Have fun and good lucky.

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I'll Never Love This Way Again by Dionne Warwick With Lyrics

Why A Man Should Never Complain.

Why A Man Should Never Complain.

A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home.

He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed, "Dear Lord, I go to 

work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. 

I want her to know what I go through, so please create a trade in our bodies.

" God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man's wish.

The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman. He arose, cooked breakfast 

for his mate, awakened the kids, set out their school clothes, fed them breakfast, packed 

their lunches, drove them to school, came home and picked up the dry cleaning, took it to 

the cleaners and stopped at the bank to draw out money to pay the power bill and 

telephone bill, drove to the power company and the phone company and paid the bills, 

went grocery shopping, came home and put away the groceries. 

He cleaned the cat's litter box and bathed the dog. Then it was already 1 p.m. and he hurried 

to make the beds, do the laundry, vacuum, dust, and sweep and mop the kitchen floor. 

Ran to the school to pick up the kids and got into an argument with them on the way home. 

Set out cookies and milk and got the kids organized to do their homework, then set up the

ironing board and watched TV while he did the ironing.

At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing greens for salad, breaded the pork chops 

and snapped fresh beans for supper. After supper he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, 

folded laundry, bathed the kids, and put them to bed. At 9 p.m. he was exhausted and, 

though his daily chores weren't finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make love 

-- which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said, 

"Lord, I don't know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my wife's being able to stay 

home all day. Please, oh please, let us trade back."

The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied, "My son, I feel you have learned your lesson and I 

will be happy to change things back to the way they were. You'll have to wait 9 months, 

though. You got pregnant last night!"

CUP SONG this is amasing. enjoy.

Two powerful tools

Silence and smiles are two powerful tools

♥~"Silence and smiles are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems and Silence is the way to avoid many problems.~ ♥

ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

English as a global language, a good or bad thing?

by Anna­Maria Smolander


The English language is everywhere. The language of most of the Internet sites around the world is English. We are using this language to write our articles on this site, even though I am positive that English is not the first language of everybody using this website. It is not my first language, I come from Finland. I learned English at school. It is the most widely studied language in the world.

It is the language of media, medicine and business. Computing uses English as does the international airtraffic control. But is the spread of this language a good thing or a bad one, is the spread of one such a powerful language a disadvantage or an advantage?

This is a difficult question to answer. Academics in the field of linguistics have tried to find the best solution for this puzzle for decades now. One disadvantage which is often mentioned in this context is the fact that many languages have died because of the spread of English. Many still have lost a large number of speakers and are bound to be doomed in the near future. These are the disadvantages, and while they certainly seem gloomy, there are many advantages of having a global language.

Doctors, for instance, from around the world can communicate with each other while using one language. As a consequence of numerous people knowing this language there are less misunderstandings which of course in medicine could be fatal. People from all corners of the world can communicate easier because they share a common language. Media can more easily tell us the most recent news from all over the world. People can use the Internet as a tool for research, which means more people are being educated about different issues.

I am happy that my son will speak this wonderful language as his first language, I am sure that I will learn a lot from him when he enters school in the UK. However, I wish that my son would also be able to speak Finnish as this is my mother tongue. It is important for a person's identity to remember their roots, and language is a very integral part of one's identity. Are people whose languages are being lost because of the dominance of the English language losing their identities then? As you can see
the question is a difficult one to answer, and in my opinion there is no right or wrong answer.



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