This scheduler happens to be lying on the bench I was doing my revision. At this moment I’m writing this article, I wonder if most people will flip and find ways to return it or flip and leave it aside. What will you do?

How did I find her?

Randomly flipping it, I discovered the owner’s name behind, on the last page. I know the owner’s name and 3 possibilities of how she looks like since there’s an mini Instax photograph of 3 girls.

Guess I was out of luck – überTwitter’s Find User didn’t return any results (It took ages to load, but still no dataset was returned).

Last hope – I searched Facebook hoping the name was real and used as her profile name. Luckily she had a distinctive name that returned 1 person! Just nice, I have 2 mutuals with this person. – 1 that I’d meet often and another that I haven’t met for ages.

I started WhatsApp Messenger to discuss how I could either meet up with him/her or (snail)mail it to her.

It was concluded that since the owner was already out of school, I’ll meet my friend the next morning so I could pass it to him and he’ll return to his classmate.

Power of Social Networking

Isn’t it nice that when you lose something, you get it back through your friend?

Its all because facebook shows mutual friends between you and strangers – provided you can be found with a public profile. (Here’s one advantage to keeping your facebook profile public.)

Future

All of you out there should name your belongings with your digital identity such as (twitter:felixker). It will be more helpful if someone found your belongings.

In future, instead of writing just names on belongings, I’ve a feeling people would stick RFID stickers or stickers with digital identities stating twitter id/facebook link, linkedin url, etc!

Have you lost anything recently? Found it?