Are you missing an old friend from high school, previous work, and college or from your previous residential area? You can find people free of charge on the web. You have done the right thing by trying to locate him or her online. Did you know that there are almost 2 billion people using the Internet? This means chances of finding that person are quite high – if you know how to do it.

So take a few minutes to read this basic buy very effective tip on how to find people for free – no charge or what so ever.

Use social networking sites. It has been forecasted that within the next few years social networking will over take email and search engine usage online. This is a obvious sign that more and more people are signing up and making their profiles accessible to all – well to those approved through “friend requests”.

The trick is to find the top social networking sites and then signing up with each and every one of them. If you don't know which ones then read on you will find a list below.

Once you are there simply search for the person you are looking for. Chances are you will not instantly find him or her. So what should you do? Find friends you used to share and send “friend requests” to those. The social networks will then start to recommend other friends from the network of friends you've made.

This way you are letting the sites to find people free of charge while you sleep. If the person is not signed up yet you will be notified the moment he or she does i.e. if the person make friends with your other friends. Cool isn't?

I know that signing up with all those sites can be a daunting task. So what you can do is simply find a free people finder service that allows you to search through all the top sites at once. There are many of them out there but one that will allow you to search free of charge is mylife.com – Click here

Now you have one of the most powerful strategies on how to find people free of charge but you still lack the domains names or websites to visit. So let me quickly list the top 5 sites below. These arguably control 80+% of the social networking traffic so chances of finding a person at no charge at all are quite high.

Recommended site:

1. Facebook.com
2. Friendster.com
3. Myspace.com
4. Linkedin.com
5. mylife.com