How to Locate An Old High School Classmate Online
Evangeline Bruce
July 24, 2008
Planning a high school reunion, or simply want to get in touch with old friends? Did you know that the World Wide Web can connect you with your secondary school classmates? All you need to do is know how to conduct a search, and know where to do it.
An ideal place to begin your search is on a social networking website, especially on the popular websites that have millions of users, such as MySpace, Facebook and so on. The reason why online social network web pages are a great place to start is many of them are set up so they can help you reconnect with old classmates. Thus, they have an option that allows you to search for people by their high school. All you need to do is provide the person´s name, the secondary school name, and the year that they graduated if you can remember.
In fact, you will find that if you cannot remember all of the names of your classmates, you can simply lookup up the name of your high school and the year you graduated to see how many people are registered on the social networking site that were in your class. However, keep in mind that most social sites require you to sign up and become a member before you can access the other members´ profiles. Joining is free, and you can deactivate your account whenever you wish.
If it becomes too daunting a task to search different social networking sites for your old high school classmates, another option you have is to conduct an investigation with a major search engine like Google or Yahoo!. In the query box enter the name of the person followed by the name of the school and the class year. If a vast amount of results are returned, or none at all, include the state and city in which the school is located. With any luck, if your classmates are part of a social network web page, this should be revealed in the search outcome.
Another way you can locate old high school classmates is to search a phone number that belongs to them, which you may still have that was given to you years ago. Simply plug the ten digit number into a reverse phone lookup and see what you find.
An ideal place to begin your search is on a social networking website, especially on the popular websites that have millions of users, such as MySpace, Facebook and so on. The reason why online social network web pages are a great place to start is many of them are set up so they can help you reconnect with old classmates. Thus, they have an option that allows you to search for people by their high school. All you need to do is provide the person´s name, the secondary school name, and the year that they graduated if you can remember.
In fact, you will find that if you cannot remember all of the names of your classmates, you can simply lookup up the name of your high school and the year you graduated to see how many people are registered on the social networking site that were in your class. However, keep in mind that most social sites require you to sign up and become a member before you can access the other members´ profiles. Joining is free, and you can deactivate your account whenever you wish.
If it becomes too daunting a task to search different social networking sites for your old high school classmates, another option you have is to conduct an investigation with a major search engine like Google or Yahoo!. In the query box enter the name of the person followed by the name of the school and the class year. If a vast amount of results are returned, or none at all, include the state and city in which the school is located. With any luck, if your classmates are part of a social network web page, this should be revealed in the search outcome.
Another way you can locate old high school classmates is to search a phone number that belongs to them, which you may still have that was given to you years ago. Simply plug the ten digit number into a reverse phone lookup and see what you find.
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