Finding A Person Online

Finding people used to be a matter of knowing where they last lived and even hir
ing a private investigator to find them. Some even sent letters to old addresses
hoping those letters would be forwarded to a current address. There were not a
lot of options. Today, however, there are some great tools anyone can use, and t
hese come to you through your Internet connection. Finding a person online is ve
ry easy in many cases, though there are some people who can not be found no matt
er what you do. Even worse, you may not like what you find once you conclude you
r search.
The most obvious place to start when you go about finding a person online is to
look through the online white and yellow pages. These reach further than your lo
cal directories, as most of the listings are national. You wont find someone from
California in your local paper directory if you live in New York, but you can f
ind them through the online type. This can work, but there are many that have un
listed numbers, or that have opted out of having their listing in the online ver
sions of the white and yellow pages. This means you have to look elsewhere to fi
nd a person.
You can try to use the search engines as well. Finding a person can be easy thro
ugh these as long as you know how to search. You can type in their name to see w
hat comes up, but you may be flooded with thousands of results, especially if so
meone has a very common name. Try to narrow your search by adding a state or tow
n, if you know it, or even an interest that they may have. You can also narrow y
our search to find a person by putting quotes around their name. When you do tha
t, you are only going to get results where the two names are side by side in the
text.
There are other places you can go when finding a person online. You should think
about searching through some of the social networking places you may online. Th
ere are also career networking sites that may help you as well. There are also s
ome great sites out there geared specifically towards finding a person you may k
now. Some of these give better and more precise search results than your standar
d search engine, so dont forget them when looking to find a person through your c
omputer Internet connection.