real people (Score 1)

The other day I tried to find out what may have become of an old high school friend - I searched through every means I know of but found no trace of them, not even email. While internet anonymism and privacy is certainly a right that should be amended to the constitution, it does impair the usefulness of the internet for finding lost acquaintences of an unknown nick or icq#. 70% of the world might be online by 2002, but less than 10% will use their real names.