Harold Hackett of Prince Edward Island started throwing bottles with messages inside into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996.   Since then he has cast 4,800 bottles into the sea and has received 3,100 responses.   He has received letters back from Africa, Russia, Holland, the UK, France, Scotland, Ireland, parts of New England, Florida, Norway and even the Bahamas.  His response rate may be better than the average “Friend” request rate on Facebook.  Click the link below for a BBC interview of Mr. Hackett.

Social networking in its oldest form