Googling old friends

Swerd

Swerd

Audioholic Warlord
The previous night, I was having nostalgic memories of old girlfriends. One was a girlfriend in 1971 when we were in college, and I last saw her briefly in 1991. So I googled her, never imagining I could find her so easily. The first link on the list was her obituary about a year and a half ago :eek: :(.

If there's a lesson here, I'm not sure what it is. The first could be, do your old girlfriends a favor, and don't search for their names or photos on Google or Facebook. The second may be, "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!"
 
Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
Sorry to hear that, my friend. That must have been at least a bit sad. I've done similar things, and it's a reminder of our mortality, for sure.

On the flip side, I've searched for people, found them, and made contact after several years - so, it can also be a very positive thing. :) Not so positive that they've gone blind and would now date me :D, but positive nonetheless.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
I've searched for people, found them, and made contact after several years - so, it can also be a very positive thing. :)
Yet you sneak in and out of New England without so much as tipping your hat ... how's that suppose to make me feel? :D
 
Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
Yet you sneak in and out of New England without so much as tipping your hat ... how's that suppose to make me feel? :D
Man, you don't forget anything. :D I should have given you a call. Seriously. :eek: In my defense, though, that was (I think) during my 17-month hiatus and I wasn't really thinking about AH.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
do your old girlfriends a favor, and don't search for their names or photos
More like do myself a favor. Time, kids and life in general could only have detracted from what I found to be worth while a quarter century ago. What are the chances of finding a 50 year old broad with a sweet @$$?

that was (I think) during my 17-month hiatus
AH's dark time when no manuals got read. Countless hordes listened to Blu-ray without room correction. Stereo moved upon the face of man. :)
 
gmichael

gmichael

Audioholic Spartan
Yet you sneak in and out of New England without so much as tipping your hat ... how's that suppose to make me feel? :D
Dude, you so drove right past my house without a call. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.
 
ParadigmDawg

ParadigmDawg

Audioholic Overlord
Dude, you so drove right past my house without a call. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.
Believe me...it's better when he drives right on past...my rear still feels weird and it's been like 3 years since he was over here...
 
Swerd

Swerd

Audioholic Warlord
More like do myself a favor. Time, kids and life in general could only have detracted from what I found to be worth while a quarter century ago. What are the chances of finding a 50 year old broad with a sweet @$$?
I guess it depends on how you define "a broad with a sweet @ss"…

Believe me...it's better when he drives right on past...my rear still feels weird and it's been like 3 years since he was over here...
After being shocked and upset by what I had read, I paid the $2.95 so I could read the rest of that archived obituary. It really was an ex-girlfriend, I wasn't certain from reading that partial obituary I could get directly off Google. She had smoked cigarettes when I knew her, so I had feared it might be due to lung cancer. I was off by a little, she died from ovarian cancer, which takes people much faster. It was shocking to learn of the early and unexpected death of an old friend, who was roughly my own age.

And yes, she was indeed quite sweet :cool:.

Thanks for the humor. It did work to cheer me up.
 
Pyrrho

Pyrrho

Audioholic Ninja
... What are the chances of finding a 50 year old broad with a sweet @$$?
...

He stated that he dated her in 1971; so you think she was only 8 years old when he dated her? What are you saying about the kind of guy he is?
 
lsiberian

lsiberian

Audioholic Overlord
He stated that he dated her in 1971; so you think she was only 8 years old when he dated her? What are you saying about the kind of guy he is?
Back in the days they started them young.
 
majorloser

majorloser

Moderator
More like do myself a favor. Time, kids and life in general could only have detracted from what I found to be worth while a quarter century ago. What are the chances of finding a 50 year old broad with a sweet @$$?

I'm with you there. I like my memories. I'm sure it looks better in my mind than it really was back then.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
Dude, you so drove right past my house without a call. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.
I did call you when I was at Walter's and got an answering machine. You have a very high pitched voice which I liked a lot but honestly between the 8+ hour drive and whatever I had going on at Walter's my day was long enough that I was running the risk of having to take a cat nap in the car on the way home.

Adam on the other hand wasn't taking a day trip so ... no pot, no kettle.

He stated that he dated her in 1971; so you think she was only 8 years old when he dated her? What are you saying about the kind of guy he is?
I meant my old flames would be around 50 now because I'm around 50 now.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
Dug this thread up because ... you guessed it, Facebook. Man, I knew I shouldn't but once I did, it snowballed. I've been stalking all day long. I'm exhausted. I've been all over since then but a fair number of them stayed put. Stalking men is easier because their last names don't change ... just sayin'.
 
Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
Stalking men is easier because their last names don't change ... just sayin'.
Justify it however you want, man. We're not judging you.

Btw, stalking you would be tough, because you disappeared, then came back under a different name, then claimed to be a 21-year-old woman, and are now a 21-year-old man. Doctor's are pretty fast these days, I guess.
 
ImcLoud

ImcLoud

Audioholic Ninja
I won't do facebook, I think it is going to lead to the ruination of the world, rite behind walmart... I seen a few marriages get eaten up, I know its not facebooks fault, but sometimes people are as faithful as their options, facebook opens some doors and there goes a 15 year marriage... Again not that it is facebooks fault... My wife is on facebook and an old boy - friend {they never dated but were friends in college}, "looked her up", so she was talking to him catching up in little message boxes {not sure what they are called} and there are pics of us and our family on her pages, and he was married so she seen no issues talking to him, and nor did I... Well about 3 days goes by and she says "I think I have a problem", so I was like whats wrong, she said "read these messages from start to finish"...

I started reading, there was about 50 of them, it started out with him saying "hey how have you been", and she said something like "wow, great, loving life, family is awesome, all is well" bla bla bla.... its how my wife takls, always cheery and welcoming... So there was maybe 5 text boxes in that convo, ended with her cutting off the interaction with something like "good to talk to you, don't be a stranger"...
The next day, another message from him.. "hey call me".. with his number.... she replys, "why, whts up is everything OK?" she didn't feel there was any reason to talk on the phone..
So he replyed "nothing wrong just miss your voice".. she wrote back "your not missing anything, really busy today have a good one"...

She was obviously brushing him off, well a couple days of trying to get her on the phone, he called her at work!! left her a message and she couldnt believe it, so instead of calling him back, she messaged him something like "why would you call my work, if you have something to talk about message me here" He writes back, "I would rather talk on the phone or in person, maybe lunch dinner or breakfast {with a smiley face winking" so now this guy is just a douche ... She writes back "my husband would explode if he read that last mesage and took it the same way I just did and I am sure your wife would not appreciate it either" He wrote back "what they don't know won't hurt them" and a link to the some song, I forget what it was...
She messaged one last time and said something like "it was good catching up with you but please don't take me un friending you the wrong way, I am just not interested in anything more than catching up, which we have done, and I think it will be a long time before I want to catch up again... Tell your wife I said hello..."
He never messaged back or maybe he couldn't, but he did call her at work again and left another message apologizing and asking for her to call him so he could explain himself...

She showed me the messages when she got home from work since she seen them there, she thought I would have been mad, but I was like he's a dreamer, can't blame him for that... But others haven't been so lucky, one of my customers lost his family because his wife met up with an old flame {from 20 years ago} they had 2 kids under 15, a house, a life together, she started talking innocent and then it gradually got wors,e then they met for lunch, then secret dinners then secret vacations, then divorce and a destroyed family... Would she have ever cheated with out facebook? I dont know, but she never did it before....
 
M

MidnightSensi2

Audioholic Chief
Wow.. what a story. Think your wife handled it well though! .. and you did too

She showed me the messages when she got home from work since she seen them there, she thought I would have been mad, but I was like he's a dreamer, can't blame him for that... But others haven't been so lucky, one of my customers lost his family because his wife met up with an old flame {from 20 years ago} they had 2 kids under 15, a house, a life together, she started talking innocent and then it gradually got wors,e then they met for lunch, then secret dinners then secret vacations, then divorce and a destroyed family... Would she have ever cheated with out facebook? I dont know, but she never did it before....
I can certainly see why you feel that way about Facebook. I think the complete social impact of 'social media' has yet to be realized. Maybe when we look back in a few decades? I mean, big picture, its really hard to quantify now (in my pea sized brain anyways heh). That said, marriages dissolved well before Facebook, but I certainly have heard similar stories to your own and that of your customers.

Also, Facebook might enable one more channel.. but, cheaters tend to be cheaters. Hard to know if it really was her first time.
 
ParadigmDawg

ParadigmDawg

Audioholic Overlord
I won't do facebook, I think it is going to lead to the ruination of the world, rite behind walmart... I seen a few marriages get eaten up, I know its not facebooks fault, but sometimes people are as faithful as their options, facebook opens some doors and there goes a 15 year marriage... Again not that it is facebooks fault... My wife is on facebook and an old boy - friend {they never dated but were friends in college}, "looked her up", so she was talking to him catching up in little message boxes {not sure what they are called} and there are pics of us and our family on her pages, and he was married so she seen no issues talking to him, and nor did I... Well about 3 days goes by and she says "I think I have a problem", so I was like whats wrong, she said "read these messages from start to finish"...

I started reading, there was about 50 of them, it started out with him saying "hey how have you been", and she said something like "wow, great, loving life, family is awesome, all is well" bla bla bla.... its how my wife takls, always cheery and welcoming... So there was maybe 5 text boxes in that convo, ended with her cutting off the interaction with something like "good to talk to you, don't be a stranger"...
The next day, another message from him.. "hey call me".. with his number.... she replys, "why, whts up is everything OK?" she didn't feel there was any reason to talk on the phone..
So he replyed "nothing wrong just miss your voice".. she wrote back "your not missing anything, really busy today have a good one"...

She was obviously brushing him off, well a couple days of trying to get her on the phone, he called her at work!! left her a message and she couldnt believe it, so instead of calling him back, she messaged him something like "why would you call my work, if you have something to talk about message me here" He writes back, "I would rather talk on the phone or in person, maybe lunch dinner or breakfast {with a smiley face winking" so now this guy is just a douche ... She writes back "my husband would explode if he read that last mesage and took it the same way I just did and I am sure your wife would not appreciate it either" He wrote back "what they don't know won't hurt them" and a link to the some song, I forget what it was...
She messaged one last time and said something like "it was good catching up with you but please don't take me un friending you the wrong way, I am just not interested in anything more than catching up, which we have done, and I think it will be a long time before I want to catch up again... Tell your wife I said hello..."
He never messaged back or maybe he couldn't, but he did call her at work again and left another message apologizing and asking for her to call him so he could explain himself...

She showed me the messages when she got home from work since she seen them there, she thought I would have been mad, but I was like he's a dreamer, can't blame him for that... But others haven't been so lucky, one of my customers lost his family because his wife met up with an old flame {from 20 years ago} they had 2 kids under 15, a house, a life together, she started talking innocent and then it gradually got wors,e then they met for lunch, then secret dinners then secret vacations, then divorce and a destroyed family... Would she have ever cheated with out facebook? I dont know, but she never did it before....
I have a very similar stance on facebook.

First, if I wanted to be your friend, I would have stayed in touch, I don't need to find you years later.

Second, when it's your time to go it's your time but that doesn't mean you can just stand in the middle of the highway.

In case that meaning clear, it means don't put yourself in that situation.

Third, I am proud of Irv's wife for telling him. My wife is on facebook a lot and I don't really look to see what she does but faith in your partner also goes a long way.
 
Alex2507

Alex2507

Audioholic Slumlord
you disappeared, then came back under a different name
Is that why you took so long to accept my friend request? Are you upset with me? :D

The new name is what my family calls me in our native tongue. Did I mention this: this current fb account is to keep up with relatives from the 4 corners and I know enough to stay away from the forbidden fruit. I'm not interested in Irv's wife. :D

The old acct was not kid friendly at all but I aim to keep this one out of the gutter. Yvette posting pictures of Harrison Ford in a bikini on my page is okay because it's Yvette but don't you go thinking it's okay for you. Same goes for Rick and Doug. :p ;)
 
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