PC_Advisor_Issue_264_July_2017

How to: Find friends and family on Facebook
Search for friends of your friends
If the person you’re trying to find is also known by
some of your other contacts, then look through
their friends list to see if they’ve already tracked
them down. To do this, go to the profile of your
existing contact and click or tap on the Friends
option that’s found under their profile picture.
Now you’ll be able to scroll through all the
people they’re friends with, and maybe stumble
across your old mate.
Search old schools and workplaces
When you first sign up to Facebook, and pretty
much constantly afterwards, you’ll be asked to
enter which school, college, university or company
you attended/worked at in the past. It’s reasonable
to assume that the person you’re looking for
has done the same, so the pages of these
organisations are a rich hunting ground.
There’s a good chance you might find a
group exists, and joining this will put you in
touch with plenty of people who might be able
to aid you in your quest.
Search your email contacts
If you kept in touch with your absent friend for a
while after school or work, then there’s a chance
you might have exchanged emails at some point.
Facebook has a feature where it will search
your email addresses and then highlight at any
people on the social media platform who are not
already connected to you.
To enable this feature, go to the Find Requests
section (the silhouette of two people again), click
Find Friends, then from the box in the upper right
corner entitled Add Personal Contacts, choose
which email service you want Facebook to search.
Enter your account details, then click the Find
Friends button and if you’re lucky you might
find their name appear. J
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