A little while ago, I checked out MyLife. It is a different kind of people search site. It is not one of those private investigation sites. If it was, than you would have to grow a Tom Selleck moustache or decide if you were Maddie or David. You remember Maddie and David….Moonlighting? I swear I was a little kid when that was on and wasn’t allowed to watch it. I just remember Bruce Willis from the Seagram’s commercials. It’s Wet and It’s Dry. Whoops.
On the contrary, it sort of extrapolates all the information from social networking sites and figures out where all the folks you know are. It also finds the people who you want to know. Again. You don’t have to register for Classmates.com, Reunion.com, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and all the others to try to connect with everyone. Luckily, since these folks are all over the social networking sites, they WANT to be contacted, and you are in no danger of contacting anyone who is now in the witness protection program by accident.
There is a dashboard area that starts off by showing you the people in your address book, and then looks for people that you graduated with, and share other associations with. The thing that is so different is that you can find out who is trying to contact you as well. I guess that would make people really careful what they clicked on or who they searched for. I bet you wouldn’t search for half the people on the internet if they were able to see you doing it. Well, I guess it doesn’t really talk about people who are searching for you, but who is looking to connect. This is actually a great feature, because I bet there are people out there that are searching for you, and you are searching for them, but neither of you have the guts to contact eachother. If you find that you have both been searching for eachother, I would consider that a sign that you need to get in touch. It wouldn’t be stalker-y at all to tell someone you saw them looking at you, because you know its true. Nope, nothing stalkerish if its true.
Is there anyone, out of all the people you have ever known, that you would love to reconnect with? Maybe you wouldn’t want to be their bestest buddy, but would you want to know how their life was going? Would you rather keep to yourself and not know? I wonder if we somehow break a weird law of physics by reconnecting with people around the world. I mean, back in the day we were lucky to travel outside of our town and when we picked our covered wagon up and hauled it away, the liklihood of seeing someone again was almost. I think I like our situation just a little better.
