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At the time of writing, the Sarpsborg site has 11,810 members, Trondheim 19,803 members, Sandefjord 4,900 members, while the Arendal site is probably quite new as it has only managed to gain 21 members.
It's amazing to experience how one person's memory can make others remember theirs. This can be across the generational divide because these sites have members who are quite young, but they also have members who are well into their 80s.
Suddenly, a new sense of belonging to the place you're from and to the people there is created. You can spend hours on Facebook, getting input from people you don't know and remembering places and episodes you thought were long forgotten. One person writes something and then others join in who have similar or completely different memories. The number of comments is incredible, the «like» field can get hundreds of hits.
Many people insert photos that show what the city or place looked like in the old days, and «in the old days» can vary from the 1920s or earlier to the 1980s/90s, depending on the age of the person inserting the photo and how much the place has changed.
Since Facebook is international, Slekt1 looked up the website in other languages such as «You know you are from...» and «Du weisst Du bist...». We found similar pages there. Not all pages are open and accessible to non-members unfortunately, but those that are make for interesting reading.
It has been suggested that someone should write a book about these emerging Norwegian memories. Perhaps this could be a project for readers of Slekt1?
