Phonebook Are Used to Find People, Online!
Greg Wilson
November 21, 2008
When you hear the words "phone book", the majority of people still think of that heavy printed volume that is delivered to the doorstep or post office every year with an update of the latest listed landline digits within the local calling area. It´s chunky, it´s messy when you get the newsprint on your fingers, and it´s extremely limited in its searching options and range of coverage.
This is why though still a minority, the quantity of people who think of the internet when they hear the words phone book is growing – and quickly. After all, the world wide web offers so many more investigation options than its printed paper counterpart. With forward and backward lookups for landlines and reverse phone searches for cell phone numbers (digits that have never been available in print and likely will never be), it´s a wonder that anybody uses those old paper fossils anymore at all.
Furthermore, beyond the various ways in which digits can be searched online, the range is also not limited to a local calling area. You can search across the country or even around the globe as long as you use a site that contains the right directory. In fact, it´s not at all difficult to find a nationwide phone directory for the United States for landlines and cell phone numbers alike.
This means that whenever you come across a phone number you don´t recognize – such as on your Caller ID when you come home at night – popping online for a minute or two will have all of those mysteries solved. Just make sure that you´re using a reverse phonebook that searches in the right direction and covers the kind of number you´d like to investigate (landlines and mobiles don´t occur on the same sites).
Once you get in the habit of using those sites, and you keep them saved in your favorites lists, you´ll start to wonder how you ever lived without them. You´ll find that the only real use to your printed phone book is a doorstep or booster seat for the local visiting toddler. Then, sooner than you´d expect, you´ll find that when someone says the words "phone book" you´ll be thinking of the internet, and not the print version, too.
This is why though still a minority, the quantity of people who think of the internet when they hear the words phone book is growing – and quickly. After all, the world wide web offers so many more investigation options than its printed paper counterpart. With forward and backward lookups for landlines and reverse phone searches for cell phone numbers (digits that have never been available in print and likely will never be), it´s a wonder that anybody uses those old paper fossils anymore at all.
Furthermore, beyond the various ways in which digits can be searched online, the range is also not limited to a local calling area. You can search across the country or even around the globe as long as you use a site that contains the right directory. In fact, it´s not at all difficult to find a nationwide phone directory for the United States for landlines and cell phone numbers alike.
This means that whenever you come across a phone number you don´t recognize – such as on your Caller ID when you come home at night – popping online for a minute or two will have all of those mysteries solved. Just make sure that you´re using a reverse phonebook that searches in the right direction and covers the kind of number you´d like to investigate (landlines and mobiles don´t occur on the same sites).
Once you get in the habit of using those sites, and you keep them saved in your favorites lists, you´ll start to wonder how you ever lived without them. You´ll find that the only real use to your printed phone book is a doorstep or booster seat for the local visiting toddler. Then, sooner than you´d expect, you´ll find that when someone says the words "phone book" you´ll be thinking of the internet, and not the print version, too.