Wireless Internet is an incredible way to keep in touch with friends and family, especially when you are living far apart from them. Now, when your sister has a baby halfway across the country, you can see all of the pictures for yourself within hours of the birth. Her husband or partner will likely post them on a social networking website like Facebook. Or maybe if the happy parent is one of the few people still holding out on joining such a website, the pictures will be shared through another site, such as PhotoBucket or Flickr. Even though one of you is in Seattle and the other is back home in Iowa, it will feel like you are living blocks away, able to share all of the simple moments in life without having to buy a plane ticket!
But wireless Internet is not just good for staying in touch with people that you still talk to on a regular basis. It is also a great way to find people that you haven't seen in years! Everyone on occasion wonders what happened to their high school boyfriend, or how their roommate from freshman year of college is doing. Did he or she get married? Do they have good jobs, or are they working at the post office? Did they gain a bunch of weight? Did they start their own business? These are all questions that you can answer with just a little creative research, thanks to wireless Internet.
The first thing that you want to do is join a social networking site. This is the number one place where old friends can use wireless Internet to reconnect and maybe eventually even meet in real life. These days, everyone and their mother has Facebook, so that might be a good place to start. If you do not already have a profile, create one for yourself. Then start adding people. You might find that looking through the friends of other people is a good way to find familiar faces. Perhaps someone you are still in touch with from high school has been an active social networker for years now, and is already friends with everyone from your senior class. This is a great resource for you to use!
The one tricky thing about finding people via wireless Internet is sometimes people's names have changed. Women who have changed their last names after getting married might be more difficult to hunt down, for example. (A hint: if this is your situation, and you want people to be able to find you easily, include your maiden name in any profile you might create. For example, if the last name you were born with is Anderson, but now you use your husband's last name, which is Pazera, register your account under Tina Anderson Pazera). Other people choose to hide their accounts from view, because they are afraid of people gaining too much access to them via wireless Internet. In these situations, you might simply have to scan profile pictures and hope that no one has changed too much!
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