[knockblock]

There was someone I knew 3-4 years ago who went to a GED class with me. He was a very nice guy. I met him in the fall of 04. Somewhere in 05 was the last time I talked to him. Sometime before that he gave me his numbers. I didn't talk to him the last time I saw him and when I had the chance to share what may have been last words with him. I had his number written down and kept it for a while these last couple of years. I have thought of and remembered him recently. I decided to call his number and see how he is doing after these past 3-4 years. Today I tried calling him at the number that he gave me that I wrote down. But it didn't sound like it was his number. It wasn't him. It went to someone's voicebox. Someone else. I don't know if the number changed or what.


I'll give a some more details later but for now I will first ask questions.


What do you think happened? Will I regret it now? Did something change? What can I do? Am I screwed?


I wanted to check and see an old aquaintance after these past years. I just thought that it would be nice to see what and how he is doing now and tell him how I've been doing lately. But my best connection to get to him does not work. Maybe I should quit but I feel like giving this thing chance. I want to try to do everything I can to find out if I can reach him again.

[Pogichinoy]

I say do what you reasonably can to get in contact with this guy, since it appears that he made an impact (large or small) in your life.

Good luck!

Try finding friends/colleagues that also knew this guy and see if they have alternative contact numbers. Have you tried on Facebook?

[shuiyin]

I think facebook is one of the better utilities to help find old acquaintances. If his number changed I wouldn't worry too much about it. People's numbers change all the time. I myself have had my number change at least twice in the past 5 years. Try finding some common friends that you guys have then you might be able to find him through them.

[watcher]

if you're really desperate to find him, you can hire those people finders and give them his number. they could probably reverse engineer his residential info and then track down his trail from there. i dont know how much their service costs though. you can try to do it yourself, but im not familiar with the process personally.

u can try googling the number. or googling his name and any organization he was affiliated with, or planned on being affiliated with. i found people like that before. if he had a website or posted on a website somewhere, it could help too. digital footprints are scary sometimes...

[gisbiz]

if you're really desperate to find him, you can hire those people finders and give them his number. they could probably reverse engineer his residential info and then track down his trail from there. i dont know how much their service costs though. you can try to do it yourself, but im not familiar with the process personally.

u can try googling the number. or googling his name and any organization he was affiliated with, or planned on being affiliated with. i found people like that before. if he had a website or posted on a website somewhere, it could help too. digital footprints are scary sometimes...

i didn't think anything like this was possible, quite alarming i'd say.
unless you were trying to catch someone who took $$ from you.

[some-azn-guy]

try facebook/myspace.

you'd be surprised... hahaha.
people who i knew 10-15 years ago were able to find me and add/message me on facebook.

[knockblock]

What if I said that I am not able to track things down with some of the stuff brought up? Like for one, the facebook. There is none of that when I went to take a course I took at that time.


I could explain what I remembered about him. But I'll have to be back. In the meantime, has anyone let something like what I have done slip away?

[SeX1eStAsaBa]

It could be anything right now. He could've moved to another country, state, or in jail.

I actually found an old aquaintance by ACCIDENT. I was friends with him for about 2 years but I had moved away. 4 years later I came back to my hometown to find out that he also moved. 7 years laters I had made new friends and went to a festival/celebration with them. Coincidentally I met my childhood friend there. It was AMAZING. We talked for a long while. Now I'm trying to find another childhood friend but I'm not obsessed with it or anything. If I could met him then I'll be great.

Hm.....did the person you were looking for have a brother or some type of relative you remember? Maybe the relative has his contact of some sort. Try facebook and myspace as everyone stated.

[YUNA!]

How about finding old acquaintances on the bus?!
I was on the bus home once and then this girl comes up to me and goes, "...Yuna?!" and turns out we were in each other's chinese class 10 years ago. How she can remember I have no clue. We exchanged numbers but I never called her after. Felt weird. All I remember from that day is that her scarf was pretty. =]

[tlydia]

try facebook/myspace.

you'd be surprised... hahaha.
people who i knew 10-15 years ago were able to find me and add/message me on facebook.

Exactly. I think you should try facebook/myspace. I had an old aquaintance, someone I haven't spoken to since I was in high school, track me down. He emailed me and asked if I still remembered him. My first response was, yes and how did you get my email. He went through facebook, located my friend's facebook where my friend posted a picture of us together. He asked her for my email and she gave it to him I felt bad that I never emailed him back when he emailed again asking to meet up for drinks. To me, it just feels weird when someone you haven't spoken to for the longest time, contacts you.

[watcher]

Exactly. I think you should try facebook/myspace. I had an old aquaintance, someone I haven't spoken to since I was in high school, track me down. He emailed me and asked if I still remembered him. My first response was, yes and how did you get my email. He went through facebook, located my friend's facebook where my friend posted a picture of us together. He asked her for my email and she gave it to him I felt bad that I never emailed him back when he emailed again asking to meet up for drinks. To me, it just feels weird when someone you haven't spoken to for the longest time, contacts you.

hmm... i wonder what happens if i dont talk to you for 3 years

[tlydia]

hmm... i wonder what happens if i dont talk to you for 3 years

Count my blessings and find a new relationship counselor who won't abandon me

[watcher]

Count my blessings

i see how it is... alright tlydia... it was nice knowing you

[tlydia]

i see how it is... alright tlydia... it was nice knowing you

Got tired of all of my babbling already But you said you weren't. Now you want to leave me. It was nice knowing you watcher I promise no more poison cookies

[coreancc]

Count my blessings and find a new relationship counselor who won't abandon me

Yeah, but what about people abandoning their relationship counselor?

[watcher]

Yeah, but what about people abandoning their relationship counselor?

i like where this is going!

[melkimx]

a couple days ago i met up with an old friend with whom i hadn't hung out since middle school. so we met at a korean restaurant, which was probably a bad idea because that meant there were a lot of korean girls in there, and when i entered, there was this girl sitting there, and i started staring at her really hard, trying to decide if it was her. and then my old friend, who turned out to be sitting behind her, caught me and waved. man, that other girl must have thought i was so weird.

but it was definitely fun to catch up with an old friend, and i hope you get to do the same! good luck!

[HtyPotter]

he may have changed numbers. I know plenty of people who decided not to renew their cellphone contract when they went to travel abroad. Like others have said, facebook would probably be most helpful.

[knockblock]

It could be anything right now. He could've moved to another country, state, or in jail.

What? From how I remembered him he didn't seem like anyone who could end up in jail.

Hm.....did the person you were looking for have a brother or some type of relative you remember? Maybe the relative has his contact of some sort. Try facebook and myspace as everyone stated.

No and no. I didn't know what relative he had. Unfortunately the facebook and myspace stuff were no such or don't exist for what I went to. I don't know how I can explain. But I'll think of what I can to expand on what I'm saying.

How about finding old acquaintances on the bus?!

I take public city bus to go to places where I live. But my old friend didn't ride/take a bus to go places from what I remember.

To me, it just feels weird when someone you haven't spoken to for the longest time, contacts you.

What is weird about it?

he may have changed numbers.

Likely. But there must be something I can do on that. Would asking the person who has the number of my old friend now do anything?






I have put this thing aside for a while. But now I'm thinking back to it again.



I feel like I've been out of touch with certain things recently.



I thought that maybe seeing someone from previous years might get me going with something.

[_dax_]

As already stated many times before me, my best advice to find an old aquaintance is Facebook.
I was amazed when several of my best friends from elementary tracked me down.
Remember the days when only the phone existed and the internet was still very new.
When I lost their phone numbers I thought that was the end...until facebook popped up.