Use The Internet To Find People

Oct 23
19:05

2010

Lance Harewood

Lance Harewood

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Sometimes,Use The Internet To Find People Articles we lose touch with the people we care about. It happens many different ways. Perhaps you had their phone number written down somewhere and misplaced it. Maybe they moved suddenly, and you never got back in touch.

Nowadays, it's much easier to regain contact with people that have moved out of our lives. The internet is an ever growing database, and our lives are becoming more and more transparent. With the rise of social networking, complete anonymity has become a thing of the past. This is a double-edged sword, but one of the good things to come out of this change is the ability to find each other again.

The first place to look is the popular search engines. If nothing turns up the first time, try enclosing your friend's name in quotation marks like this: "John Smith". This sometimes tells the search engine to search for both words together and only together, so you don't get results like "Sadie Smith [...] John Monroe". Yes, the text contains "John" and "Smith" but not "John Smith".

Next stop should be the online phone listings. Even the Whitepages are online now, so be sure to look there, especially if you have an idea of the city the person is living in.

The final and perhaps most fruitful try should be to the popular social networks. With pictures to go with all those names, you should be able to find the "John Smith" you went to school with. Most everyone has a social network profile these days, so use that to your advantage.