subject: How To Find Someone's Email Address Using Facebook [print this page] How to use Facebook when finding email addresses
So you don't have any contact details for a person but you need to get a message to them somehow. Send them an email message right? Well yes but how do you send someone an email if you don't know what their email address is? It's almost second nature now to simply click on your email application, pull up someone's address and fire off a quick message. It's quick, painless and doesn't cost you a thing over and above what you pay for your Internet access. Occasionally it doesn't work and it can come as a bit of a shock when you realize that you don't have an address to send to. So, you need to learn how to find someone's email address and here is a way to do it using Facebook.
Because finding an email address for someone can be very difficult I always suggest to people that ask, that they try searching for it with a web site that specializes in collecting and recording email details. These web sites, loosely called email tracers, spend all their time creating the email directory that you need to find the addresses you want. Unfortunately they can't possibly have every single address in their database no matter how hard they try so you should to know about other ways of searching. The one i'm going to talk about here uses Facebook.
Who doesn't have a Facebook account yet?
There is no foolproof way to find an email address and some addresses are easier to find than others. Knowing about various ways that you can look up email address can come in handy sometimes. I'm going to tell you about one of my favorite methods using Facebook.
Most people that I know have and email address. Well almost as many have FB accounts too and it's possible to find people using the 'Find Friend' search feature. You have to have an FB account to do this but you might as well sign up if you haven't already because most other people have done.
Log in to Facebook and click "Find Friends". Type the persons name who you are looking for and click "People" in the menu. You should see a list of matches appear. You might get a lot of matches depending on how common a name you are looking for but most people have pictures loaded so it's often not difficult to find the right person.
FB does not display peoples email addresses but it will allow you to send them a private message as long as the recipient has opted to receive messages.
Facebook is good but it isn't always the answer
Not absolutely everyone is on FB unfortunately and many that are do not want to be contacted by anyone who happens to look them up so they may have set their options to stop this happening. If you don't see a link to send them a message you can ask them to be your friend or you can hunt for one of their friends who does allow messages and try and contact your person through them.
If everything is in your favor then Facebook can be a good way to find someone's email address but you have to do some work to get it and sometimes it will not work at all. It's usually easier to begin your email search by looking it up in a web site specializing in email tracing. It still is one of the best ways of finding an email address.
