Myspace Does it Again!

This past November a friend of mine found me on Myspace. I haven't seen or heard from her in over 10 years. It was so great to reconnect. It's hard to believe that a silly Web page can help find long lost friends. Well, it appears that Myspace can do more than that!

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how some hopeful adoptive parents were using Myspace as a way to find expectant mothers looking to place their infants for adoption. Well, this week an ABC News article, Social Networking Site Reunites Lost Siblings - Brother Searched Myspace to Find His Sister, reports that a brother used Myspace to locate his lost sister.

Josh, Jake and Christine were bounced around Texas from foster home to foster home. They were never kept together, always split 2 and 1. Finally, Christina was adopted and later Jake and Josh were adopted by another family. The kids lost touch and were not aware of each other's new last names. But, they never forgot each other and often wondered how their siblings were doing.

Last August, Jake had an idea. He figured that every teen girl he knew had a Myspace page, why would his sister be any different? He didn't know her new adoptive last name, but took a chance and searched with the information he had. It didn't take long for him to find her. A quick nervous message of, "Out of curiosity, are your adoptive parents Mary-Ann and Don?" and she knew immediately that it was one of her brothers. They were all shocked to learn that not only did they all end up in Florida, but only 45 minutes from each other. They met that night and all feel that this was a true miracle.

What a great story.

This is truly a very small world.

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Additional Reading
Before You Help Your Child Enter Into an Adoption Reunion for Adoptive Parents
All About Grief and Loss in Children