Finding someones email address
People use the net for many things, but increasingly one use is finding people they’ve lost connection with or that they’d like to see again. There are various ways of doing this and this article explores whether using email alone is the best way of finding long lost friends and relations.
There’s a lot of talk about something called 6 degrees of separation at present. So for example, we all know someone who knows someone, who knows someone etc and that if we multiply this by 6, then we have someone that we can claim a connection to. Alex knows Bob, Bob knows Charles, Charles knows David, David knows Edna, Edna knows Frank who knows Donald Trump!
However, you cannot rely on 6 degrees of separation as a reliable idea. But if you persevere you can have a degree of success in finding people, simply by using an email address, rather than searching the web.
First of all if you have a social networking page or pages, then use these to launch a plea to find someone. If you email your networking contacts, you could get good results – a site with 100 friends on it is 100 chances to find the information you seek.
Use your existing address book to highlight the person you are trying to locate and mail out a request for help to track them down. You may just get people finder sites, and these aren’t really using email, but it will at least give you some kind of start.
Remember though, however you search, that some people may not wish to be found, so they have taken care to ensure that they do not have a widely known email address and are not registered with any networking sites, nor do they have their contact details on any websites, or maybe they just have a new email address. If so, they remain unknown – please respect their privacy.
But if you’re looking for someone, there may be better methods than email, although it’s a good idea to begin with email. Using a combination of sites for search, people finding and social networking will give you the very best results. Don’t put all your faith in finding someone based on the 6 degrees of separation theory: it really isn’t that simple, you need to use all the tools you can in your search.
