So, because things are quiet here over at the home office, I decided I'd try and look up some old friends on Facebook. But because Facebook's search app is slow, dumb, and doesn't allow intelligent queries -- at least that I could find, I used my noodle instead.
First, I used Google and got a small number of matches. From there I found some Facebook public groups where I found old classmates, and from there I Facebook stalked their friend's lists, and then drilled down playing a variation on the six degrees of separation theme. This had a cascading effect in that I was now finding people I wasn't actively looking for, and it also took me down some rabbit holes that I'm sorry I found.
Nevertheless, it was an educational and fascinating exercise to drill down into my personal people history and find photos of some folks that I haven't seen in thirty years, and in some cases, these were found on other people's profiles.
Overall I hit and saved about fifty different profiles in about two hours time. These were then saved as .webloc files to a folder.
Now, if I want to take a trip down memory lane, I can do just that without having to Friend anyone. And for a pathologically shy person like me, that's just perfect.
Incidentally, I was alternatingly shocked and/or pleased to see how some of my past acquaintances have aged, or not.
Time can be a cruel, cruel mistress.
And I know; I own a mirror.
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