Find a friend topic?

[David H]

There are sites already to find old friends, but have looked around and although they have reasonable ones they seem to be international and pretty quiet. I'd think you could do a far better job here and would probably double the traffic in the process. I think the one gap may be the private message system as I don't think you've got one, but sure could be provided within that area only somehow if not happy to roll it out sitewide.

I've found most people on my list on Friends Reunited and Facebook but have a fairly long tail of stragglers after over 10 years who I'm sure most others have who do the same thing. As women only use their maiden names on FR then that cuts out 50% of them from other places like Facebook, and really needs a decent specific place solely for Britain as you can imagine the needles in haystacks when competing with the US and Australia at the very least.

With the increased server power nowadays I'm sure the system could cope, and just require the small messaging tweak somehow to complete the process. If nothing else, what do others think, would you like to see this introduced as another part here rather than having to join half dead sites with hardly any British names posted?

[MarkRae]

See the title of this website? It's for asking and answering questions. That's what it's for. No more, no less.

[Baldric]

Under HISTORY, there is a sub heading for GENEALOGY, could that help at all?

[naomi24]

AB used to have a PM facility but that's long gone.

[joko]

because as mark says this is a Q&A site...and 'find a friend' is not a question.

people constantly post in this section wanting to change the function of this site

the web is full of all manner of stuff...one site cannot do everything.

[craft1948]

I don't fancy that...............

[AB Editor]

Linkedin is very good at finding people you may know or may once have known - it sounds like you've tried all the others!

AB will probably not become a "find a friend" service, but private messaging may one day turn up as may a "friend"/"follow" system. The latter would mainly be a way to filter content to just the stuff you may be interested in though, rather than anything else.

[David H]

Question/answer site? Never? You mean like 'Does anyone know where my old friend from Blackheath is now?' or 'I think I may know who it is?'.

@ MarkRae Nope, no enquiry related activity there then, I'd better leave or go on the naughty step. Sometimes the level of answers here is truly beyond the pale. And I think the last time I looked there was a forum called 'chatterbank' but I expect you'd rather avoid there as it breaks someone else's rules you've decided to focus on yourself as a volunteer. Nice job.

[MarkRae]

^^ Dearie me!

[Baldric]

It's for asking and answering questions. That's what it for. No more no less.
If you really think that Mark why do you turn up on every other section of Answerbank answering, commenting and putting things/people down on a regular basis?