Find Friends Online With These 7 Social Networking Websites

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Here are the ‘people search options’ of some amazing social networking websites. You can use them to locate friends online and also trace people (hopefully, for good purposes):

7. Tagged

Quick facts:

  • Tagged currently has over 30 million users worldwide
  • Most of its users are outside of US

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • You can search by name, user name and email address
  • Think of what was your friend’s nickname and enter it there if you can’t find him via his real name or email
  • Take a look at the advanced search options, you can also search by age there

6. Bebo

Quick facts:

  • Most popular in Ireland, UK
  • Over 40 million users
  • They’ve been acquired by AOL in 2008

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • You can search for a user’s videos except for first and last name
  • Write as much information as possible in the search box, they don’t have advanced search options

5. Hi5

Quick facts:

  • Over 60 million active members
  • Most popular in Latin America

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • Narrow your search results (age, country)
  • You can search by email, just enter the email address there

4. Twitter (registration is required)

Quick facts:

  • You need to be registered to access their ‘find people’ option
  • One of the fastest growing websites
  • 25 million users

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • They still don’t have advanced system for searching for people
  • Most people use user names, so enter your friend’s nickname here

3. MySpace

Quick facts:

  • Still one of the most popular social networking sites around
  • Over 100 million users
  • Owned by NewsCorp

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • They have very user friendly search engine, you can search by name, user name, email
  • Search by last or first name only if your friend’s first/last name is rare
  • Use the email search option, enter your friend’s email address there

2. Linkedin

Quick facts:

  • Business-oriented social networking site
  • Over 50 million users worldwide
  • People post a lot career information there

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • Linkedin is a business-oriented website, so you can search by company, industry and so on. You need to register to do that, though
  • In case your friend worked in a particular company, you can search by company, find the people that currently work there and ask them whether they know something about your friend

1. Facebook

Quick facts:

  • The most popular social networking site
  • 350 million and growing active users online
  • Most likely, you can find most of your friends there

Search Results Example:

Tips when searching:

  • You can search by email address
  • Import your contact list so Facebook will see whether your friends have an account there (it will search by email)