Finding Old Friends For Free Is Much Easier These Days

So you’ve lost touch with your old friends from high school or college and you’d love to locate them and find out what they’ve been doing for the past twenty years – but where do you start?

Obviously, the phone book is the easiest place to find them if they still live in the same town, but your old female friends may have married and changed their names, so finding them will likely be more difficult. If this is so, you could ask your mutual friends and see if they know her new name and current contact information.

A good way to begin finding old friends for free via an internet search is to enter their names into any of the search engines, such as Bing or Google, and see if you recognize any of the names that come up – if he or she has a middle name, it’s a good idea to include that in your search, as it will narrow down the field of possible matches.

Another way of finding old friends for free is to search for them on one of the social networks, such as Facebook.com or MySpace.com. You will have to join the site but when you do, you may be surprised to find that an old friend may also be searching for you!

If you are trying to find someone you went to school or college with, you could try the alumni society to see if the person may have entered any recent information about where he or she is living. Finding old friends for free through a sorority or fraternity website should be easy as long as they were members of the organization.

Alumni.net is a global site with millions of members, so if you are looking for old friends from college and can’t find them through your college’s database, there’s a better than average chance that you will be able to find who you are searching for through this site. There is no fee for registration, and once you are a member, you will be able to search for your friends through their college or university or even the company they worked for.

The only drawback to this site is that it requires you to enter information about your personal life, such as your job, which is used to set up a resume on another site. You also are expected to invite other friends to join. If you don’t mind doing this, then it could be a good tool to use to find your old friends for free.

One site that is more business-related but still useful for finding old friends for free is LinkedIn.com. This site allows you to connect with business contacts and, in turn, with their contacts. Like the other sites, it’s free to join, and if you know where your friend worked, you may be able to find someone in the company who knows where he or she is working now.

Whichever way you choose to track down your old friends, don’t give up – keep trying and maybe you’ll discover the clues you need to finally be able to make contact with them and perhaps be able to meet and catch up with all that’s happened to you both in the intervening years.