How to Locate Someone on Classmates.Com

Classmates.com is a large index of student names.

Classmates.com is a well-known website that was established in 1995. Classmates.com was one of the first social networking sites on the Internet, and was created in order to provide people with an index of names of classmates from preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, high school and college. Finding a long-lost friend on Classmates.com can be a relatively easy process.

Instructions

1. Register to access the site for free upon visiting Classmates.com. Registration is a fast and easy process. All that is necessary is to fill out details such as your full name (including your maiden name if you are now married), the high school from which you graduated and the year, your current zip code, your email address and your birth year. Read the privacy policy and terms and service for the website. If you agree with them, click "Submit" to complete the registration process.

2. Check the email address that you provided in order to confirm its validity. You can do so by clicking on the link that is available within the body of the email.

3. Conduct a search for your friend. Once you are registered with Classmates.com, you can perform a search for anybody by typing their full name into the search field on the website's upper right-hand corner. You can select from a variety of search options apart from name, which include kindergarten, elementary and high schools, as well as colleges and workplaces (including the military).

4. Look for the person's name. If you conducted a search for specific schools or workplaces, go through the listing until you find the appropriate one (for example: Microsoft in Colorado Springs, Colorado, or Harvard Law School in Boston, Massachusetts). Look carefully through the full list of employees or students that is provided for the institution or workplace. To narrow down your options, be specific by entering in the years that the person either attended the school or worked at the job.

5. Send a message. If you are lucky enough to find the person you're looking for, Classmates.com offers registered users the option to send a direct personal message. Identify yourself and update the person on your current whereabouts and ask some questions in order to reconnect.

Tips & Warnings

• Classmates.com is only effective if the person you are looking for is registered with the website. If the person is not registered, you will unfortunately not be able to locate him.

References

• Classmates.com