I know there are a few people out there who are still holds
outs on MySpace and Facebook. I know, because I was one of them. “Why do I want
to find people from my past?” I’d think. This story is an example of exactly
why you would.
And the whole thing happened because of a crazy coincidence
in typos.
Thirty Two years ago Terri Fuller gave up her two year old
son, Rustin Hawver, because she "was young and just barely surviving.” For
decades Fuller searched for the son she so painful had to part. Recently, she
set up a MySpace page announcing her search for the boy, now a man. However,
Fuller put a typo in his name, leaving the “w” out. It just so happened that
Rustin made the exact same typo when searching for his own blog and came upon
Fuller’s MySpace page.
"Hi, I'm Rustin Hawver, H-A-W-V-E-R," he wrote to
her. "I think I'm the one you're looking for that you want to meet. Please
let me know if I'm wrong,” he wrote. He wasn’t wrong.
The reunited mother and son plan to meet later in March. "If
it wasn't for Google or that keyboard being messed up, I would have never have
found [her]," Hawver said.
So maybe web 2.0 isn’t such a bad thing after all.
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