Friends Reunited I've been in touch with a few people I haven't seen for 40 years.
Did prison change you? ;-) ;-) ;-)
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Parp, Parp!
Note: All Toad posts come with an implied smiley.
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Friends Reunited is my favourite for a laugh. Amazing the details folks give away because they don't seem to realise it is so easy to get 2 plus 2 sussed.....eh Toad!
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David W
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How was L******* Boy's Secondary Modern then?
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What do you mean "it is so easy to get 2 plus 2 sussed"?
Dave
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www.theonion.com/
Satirical website that even managed to deal with Sep 11th last year in a bitingly funny way.
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Google, because it leads to everything else!
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OK Dave H...Friends Reunited and 2 plus 2 sussed etc....
Please read all this rant with a ;-) but there is a serious undercurrent.
Many folks like to protect their identities to varying degrees on the web but with Friends ReU they seem to throw all caution to the wind with the thought they will never be found (sussed).
You only need to craftily remember a couple of facts over time about someone and a little work on the FRU site will find out loads more.
For example one person wrote up far more on the site than she had told her new employer, and they genuinely fell across the info by chance.
Another very secretive chap on one forum I use gave away the lot on FRU because he didn't think his two IDs would ever be associated.
With my old school year I was interested to see our head boy and head girl were happily married - how sweet....until later I notice she'd reverted back to her maiden name and posted a scathing update about their terrible years together.
Other folks are laughing about exploits they would still be ashamed for their parents to know of...as if it were a secret conversation in the pub.....I'm sorry guys this is an international free for all here!
Another chap gives his current location full, education history, qualifications, job history, wifes maiden name, childrens names/ages, hobbies, hopes for the future etc etc.....cloned ID anyone.
The site is the first place the newspapers look now if your are in any sort of trouble or come to their attention.....makes it so much easier for them to have all your old school/work chums to ask "and what was he/she like?".
To cap it all I've logged into the site with a name that isn't strictly obvious as my own (to preserve my privacy, not for sinister reason) and damm me I've already been mailed by three girls (yes Toad you can have their numbers) and invited to reunions for schools I never attended...weird weird site.
David W
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