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A week ago I opened an account at the Russian language social networking web-site called ‘Moj Mir’, - which can almost literally be translated as ‘My Space’.

There’s no way to be prepared beforehand for all kinds of surprises that may ‘unleash’ upon you once you’ve stepped in this area of virtual universe.

So was my experience with it.

I never did either ‘MySpace’, or ‘Facebook’ though, but I believe all they should be pretty similar functionally: you create a profile, and then, through a number of search features you may explore ‘the past’, i.e., search a database already created on the site by the year, location, school, working place, etc.

So did I.

Shortly after, some very interesting connections were found. For example, in the ‘working place - Aeroflot‘ category I found a profile of a pilot who I knew by reputation, and who once happened to be a captain on our flight from Moscow to Vienna in 2000. I still have a picture of the crew taken at the time. Now this pilot is a captain on A-320.

But most unexpected results were brought trough a communication with a lady who still lives in my native city of Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

It turned into quite an emotional exchange when this lady agreed to check out an address I gave her - the address of a house where I used to live many-many years ago (here’s a post featuring a picture of the same house! - in early 70s), and, also, a next door address where my aunt lived until at least 2004.

Oh, my goodness, she was there, at home! She’s 80 now, and sure thing, she was so overwhelmed when she got it what kind of a visitor came over just to say ‘Hi’ from a nephew living ‘half a globe away’. Tamara, - that’s the lady’s name, - took a few pictures, and here’s my Auntie Anne, by the door of her house in Semipalatinsk, as of November 19, 2007. I just can’t believe this..

Unfortunately, they don’t care computers at home. And I don’t know what I can do about it. But I appreciate a lot what Tamara has done for me..

(to be continued..)