Trying to search for someone on social networks without asking them? It could be a bit difficult but with the methods in this post, you’ll locate social media profiles, including hidden ones of a person easily and quickly.
Find someone on social networks for free
Here’s how to find someone on social networks for free. However, these methods cannot guarantee that all accounts will be found without omission.
1. Search on Google
To be honest, Google is the go-to option when you try to find someone on all social networks for free. Whether it’s a full name, phone number, or email address, Google it. The web search engine giant will show you the list of results from its huge database. You may find specific social media accounts or nothing related.
The disadvantage of a Google search is that there are too many results, making it hard to find useful information. It’s like picking gold from the sea; you need to spend a lot of time and rely on luck to achieve your goal. Actually, I consider it lucky when you receive the following reply from Google, because you’ll know you don’t have to waste your time on it and you can choose another direction for your investigation.
2. Upload your contact and sync it
If you know the person’s phone number, you can use this method to find the person’s social media accounts effectively. Many social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook let you find friends by phone number.
Once you save the phone number into contact, and then upload your contact into the social media platforms, you’ll get social media accounts as you wish.
Take Instagram as an example, here’s how to find the account by phone number:
1) First save the phone number to your phone’s contacts.
2) Open Instagram and go to your profile page. Tap the Settings icon in the upper right-hand corner.
3) Select Discover people.
4) Tap Connect besides Connect Contacts. Instagram might need you to grant access to Contacts. Tap Allow Access and you can see your contact list.
3. Search across different social media platforms
Most mainstream social media networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter allow you to look up a person by username, phone number, and email address. If you have these social media accounts and have the information, you can find the person’s profile one by one.
If you want to find someone living nearby without a name, phone number, and email address, you can try searching for people nearby.
If you can’t find anything, it’s better to run people search engines like Spokeo and BeenVerified.
4. Mutual connections
If you have mutual friends, consider politely asking them if they’re connected on other social platforms. Your mutual friend might be willing to share or introduce you. Also, don’t forget to look through the mutual friends’ lists on social media platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn. Sometimes, the person you’re looking for might be linked to other visible profiles within these lists. It’ll be good to know the person’s interests and hobbies, it will guide you to groups or pages that are related to these interests. The targeted social networks may be linked to these interests.
Find all social networks in seconds (Recommend)
There are free ways to find someone on all social networks but it consumes your time and energy. Most important, you may not get what you want after searching for a long time.
Therefore, we recommend these reliable and efficient people search engines which cost you a little.
1. Search social networks with BeenVerified in seconds
As a long-standing brand in the field of people search, BeenVerified specializes in searching people on social media. By entering the person’s information (e.g. phone number), you’ll acquire a detailed report including the full name, current addresses, social media profiles, and more. It’s a great tool to search the person you meet on dating websites/apps.
- Go to the search page of BeenVerified.
- Enter the phone number and hit SEARCH.
- Wait for BeenVerified to search the databases. Once done, you’ll aquire the available social media profiles associated with this phone number.
That’s all the ways you can use when finding someone on all social networks. Hopefully, this post could help. If you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions, you’re more than welcome to let me know in the comments.
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