With all the new websites available to help you find someone on the internet, individuals are discovering amazing information about their friends and people that they know that can often surprise them.
There are loads of sites that are mainly just for social information these are good sites for getting small amounts of information, then you can use the new information to perform additional searches on other sites and build up a nice collection of information about the person that will eventually fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle until you track them down.
There's not one website that provides all the functionality that you need, so you need to do some research to find out which is the best one for you.
Google is usually the first method used to find a person, but if they don't own a website or blog this usually doesn't work.
Facebook can be used seeing as almost everybody has an accoutn these days. Problems do arise however, since Facebook has been clampingdown on pirvacy. There were a lot of complaints about how easily available peoples information was, so Facebook locked it down a lot and it is not as easy to find people there as it once was. If somebody sets their profile to private it will be a lot harder to find them since you won't be able to tell which account actually belongs to them.
As it turns out there are better ways. For example there are online directories that hold a lot of information about individuals. these directories can often charge for access.
Before you buy access to a directory you need to make sure that it is the one that you need. Some directories only contain some information about people, and they may not even cover the area in which your target person resides.
Once you have recognized what kind of information you need to discover about an individual, it is then just a situation of choosing the most matched data source for your needs.
Another technique of discovering someone is to use the electoral roll which contains everybody in a nation that can vote. The electoral roll can contain useful information such as the persons contact telephone number.
This whole process is made a lot easier if the person owns a website. Everybody that registers a domain name has to enter their details with the domain registrar, which can be looked up for free using free WHOIS services.
