How to Find Personal Information on Old Friends
Finding information about old friends or associates you have lost contact with can be challenging. Internet websites or finder companies can help you locate people.
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Things You'll Need
- Person's full name
- Last known location
- Names of common friends or family
Instructions
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Create an account on a social networking site, which is the main tool for personal information sharing on the web today. Presently, most people are registered with some type of social networking site. As of July 2009, Facebook is one of the market leaders. Performing a search for a friend could prove successful.
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Send an invitation asking permission to view your friend's site. Some people choose to display more information than others. However, basic information should provide the person's current status and location.
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Investigate other web-based resources if the social networking sites are not successful. Free sites such as Peoplefinders.com can help you locate old friends by looking through public records to locate people by birth names.
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Search for companies that are not web based but offer personalized services to achieve tangible results. One such company is Find an Old Friend, a UK-based company run by Robin Brown, a former professional tracer for the UK Armed Forces reunion website. This company uses the person's full name and the last known location as a starting point and covers the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Tips & Warnings
If you wish to be discreet, view the old friend's information on a social networking site through a common friend's page. This allows you to keep your own identity private.
