Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Use the Internet to Find High School Classmates

High school classmates are people with whom we have very unique relationships. Though they are the center of our universe for the four years that we attend high school, all too frequently we lose touch with those same people as we move on to the next phases of our lives. Many of us promise that we'll always keep in touch, and indeed we do attempt to do so for the first while after we graduate. However, as we move on to college, careers, marriage, children, and all of the other important responsibilities and events in which we take part over the years, it is easy to let communication with our high school classmates dwindle or disappear altogether.

However, just because we lose touch, it doesn't mean that we should never be able to reach one another again. That's why one of the best features of the internet these days is to allow us to reconnect with those people who still mean something to us, but whose contact information we may no longer have. This is possible in a number of different ways.

If your high school classmate's name is an extremely uncommon one, or if you know that he or she has a very strong web presence through some form of specialty or celebrity, then you may be able to find contact information for him or her by performing a simple search engine query. However, if he or she has a common name, a search engine may provide you with far too many results to be able to discern if there are any accurate ones.

Therefore, you should try a form of investigation that is geared toward finding a specific individual as opposed to a vague query for general information. This may include a people search site, which can help you to find a person online based on information such as their location and career. You may also try an alumni search site which is designed to help you find old friends online by searching for their names within certain schools and graduating years. With these tools, your odds greatly increase for locating your high school classmates.

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