Friends I used to know (Part 1)

When we moved to BC from CSP in 1975?, I lost contact with the first group of real friends I ever made. These were proper friends – not random 2 year olds I met at the nursery in Rickmansworth!

Subsequent searches on Friends Reunited have not been successful at all.  In fact, I’m starting to doubt my own memory… (dangerous when you consider the potential scope of this Blog/Idea).

OK, names… here you go:

1. Andy Ivy – my best friend up until then (and the reason for my choosing to support QPR)

2. David Johnstone – I remember being driven to his parents’ house for birthday party.

3. A girl – Annabel? Abigail? Alison?.  And I certainly have a memory of a birthday party at her house. Perhaps she was the first girl I fancied…?

I must ask my parents whether they remember any of them.

The idea contd.

A key feature of this “site/idea” will be the ability to share different memories among different categories of “friends”.

This particular feature was recently identified as a key ingredient of the next generation of Web 2.0 applications. Current applications such as Facebook and MySpace don’t differentiate between “degrees of friendship” – information is made available to everyone equally.

With memories, however, one wouldn’t want to share all of them with everyone…