Wow John. Ya just gotta watch more criminal flicks. When the bad guys are looking for the good guys who want to avoid getting caught they yank the battery out of their cell phone and throw it in the trash then run and buy a throw away phone. That way, if the bad guys are using a tracking device they can’t find the cell phone’s location. But yeah, Yvonne’s right. All my stuff in on 24/7 and yes, I do use the tracking option every now and then and have used it to locate my phone on 2 occasions. Something like this is next on my list….
This is a downer story. Sorry. The thread Where were you in 6th and 7th grade? reminded me of a boy who sat right behind me in 6th grade. We got into trouble many times for whispering and passing notes back and forth during class. I never saw him before or after that year. Just out of curiosity I Googled his name Friday night, and up popped the front page of our home town newspaper archives. He, his sister, another boy from our class, and 2 others died in a horrible automobile crash shortly after our graduation. He still lived in our district, so he must have just dropped out of school. The other boy was on the first string of our senior basketball team, but I don't remember him at all. It's strange how you remember some people who you know for only a short while. And news like that can still make you so sad after all these years.
No, because all but one of my better friends are dead. The neighbor boys from the 50s and 60s are all dead. Two in Viet Nam and the other from cancer in his early 50s. I located, through a friend, one of my besties in my 30s three days after she died of cancer. Same with a studio guitarist I worked with. Located him a month after his funeral.
I used FB to find someone I knew when I was about 10. He’s alive and well and still lives in the same house he did 60+ years ago.
First place i check is findagrave dot com. If I don't see them there, I check Facebook, then one of the people finders. But, you know, I'm not really all that interested in very many folks..
What a great premise for a movie update. There was an old-technology version where a guy would put a black pin on the wall map of a cemetery he managed, and whoever owned that plot soon died. I Bury The Living-1958 We need that updated for someone who finds that everyone she searches for on Facebook has recently expired. Click! Click! You're Dead-2021
Sharing is good. Searching, not so much. Actually, I've only been on Facebook when a business hosts its web presence there. I don't have an account, and I've never sought out any high school (or earlier) friends, or ex-coworkers, etc. I still like my movie idea.