Finding People on the Internet
October 17th, 2009Have you ever wondered what happened to your old friends from elementary and high school? Have you lost track of college buds? Have you researched your family tree and learned the names of distant relatives you never met? The Internet offers a neat way of looking for people.
Let’s say you went to school with a guy named Dennis Tamburo. Have you searched high school reunion databases for his name? Have you looked him up in online telephone directories? It may be as simple as just looking up his name in a commonly used directory.
What if you knew a guy named Charlie Jones in college and you heard he is now an actor? Maybe you can rent some videos and check him out. He might be that nerdy kid you knew and everyone thought would be stuck in the Lifelong Accountant Zone.
And what if your best friend 20 years ago was a guy named Jim Thomas? He might just be a phone call away. You never know until you try to find your old buds whether you will find them.
Sure, there are information services that claim you can find anyone in their databases but before you get out your bank card and start spending money, see if you can find your old friends through the free online resources first.
You may just reconnect with a long lost part of your life without too much effort. Wouldn’t that be great?