I.C.E

This concept is not anything new to me, infact I have known about it for many years.

I am sure that most of you know about it as well, but just in case, for the few that haven't heard about it, I thought I would share.

I C E – In Case Of Emergency

We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn’t know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this ‘ICE’ (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.

The concept of ‘ICE’ is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name ‘ICE’ (In Case of Emergency). The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones with patients but they didn’t know which number to call.

He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognised name for this purpose.

In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialling the number you have stored as ‘ICE’.
For more than one contact name, simply enter ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc

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I have about 4 ICE's in my phone, my husband's mobile and home number and my best friend.

That way if anything ever happened to me, they should be able to get in touch with someone!

Facebook

Oh that great big world wide web site that everyone finds their childhood friends on.

I was on Facebook about 18 months ago, but was sick of the constant emails that came with it of people asking me to take this test, or that test, or was I compatible with so and so.

I could never navigate myself around their site easily, I didn't understand what was so great about it and in fact I wasn't that bothered by it.

So I deactivated my account and left it at that.

In the last month or so I seem to have heard a lot about Facebook and decided to go check it out.

Yes I reactivated my account....

Things have changed, for the better, it is nicer to use, I can find what I need to do easier, finding friends is not difficult, in fact I now have quite a few friends, and I thought nobody loved me!

I have found people I knew from over 13 years ago and people who I was sad about loosing contact with.

Some I am so happy to have found again, some I just want to rush over to the other side of the world and give great big hugs to and others well it is just nice to catch up with where they are at and what they are doing.

So I am now on Facebook, ok, not in an over active way. I am not pouring out every little thing I do on there, I have a few pictures on there for people to see, I have a link to my blog so people can catch up with what we are up to more regularly and that will be were it stands for now.

Maybe one day I will investigate what else there is out there to do on Facebook, but for now I am just having a happy week catching up with some very old lost friends.