· Buy a gift and want to send it to a friend as a surprise but find that you have forgotten his address?
· Visit a friend you haven’t contacted for many years but find that strangers live in the house?
· Send a greeting card or invitation to someone but find that you don’t know where he lives?
Have you ever experienced these embarrassing situations? Luckily, with this article, you will know how to find out and confirm where someone lives quickly.
I. Look people up with reverse checking tool
In this digital age, everyone’s information is stored on the Internet. Various online tools are available to help you easily find a person’s information such as email address, home address, workplace and more by searching through the huge online databases.
One such tool is WhitePages, an electronic online directory recording basic information for hundreds of millions of people. You can find a person’s address by searching their phone number or name on the platform of WhitePages.
II. Find someone’s address by phone number
When it comes to locating someone in real-time, we usually think of using some physical GPS trackers or Apps such as Find My for iPhones and Find My Device for Android. However, using these tools requires obtaining the other party’s consent in advance. Is there a simpler way?
Of course! TrackMobi provides a perfect solution for tracking someone’s location through a cell phone number. You just need to tell TrackMobi a phone number, and it will immediately locate the person who owns this number and provide you with an online map to view the other party’s geographic location in real-time, helping you locate a person’s address.
III. Locate a person’s address through social media
Social media platforms always have a large user base, making it possible to potentially locate where someone lives through their personal information and posts on their social media platform account.
1. On Facebook, you can type someone’s name into the search box, and you will get a list of users. Click on them one by one to view their profiles and determine if they are the person you are looking for. If you can remember the city where the person is located, try typing “name, city” into the search box, and the user results you get will be more accurate.
2. The steps to search for someone on LinkedIn are similar to search on Facebook. In addition, LinkedIn generally requires users to register with their real names, which means that the information you find on this platform will be relatively more accurate than on other platforms.
3. Instagram is a picture-based exchange community, which seems to be unable to help you get accurate location information about someone, but it is not. If you know someone’s Instagram account, you can carefully check the photos they posted. They may take a photo at home or a selfie near their house, which may give you some hints of their address.
IV. How do I find someone’s address without Internet?
i. Telephone directory (yellow pages)
In some places, public telephone directories, also known as Yellow Pages, are provided to everyone. These phone books not only offer phone number lookup services but may also list detailed address information of residents, making it easier for community residents to stay in touch.
Note:
It is very hard to use a physical phone book to find a person’s address at present, because many areas have begun to gradually restrict or prohibit the disclosure of residents’ address information in phone books or Yellow Pages, and many physical phone books have stopped updating, which means the address you find may no longer be accurate.
ii. Check public records
In some places where transparency and public participation are valued, the government or relevant agencies will keep and provide a series of public records to the public, such as voter registration or property registration, which may allows you to find where someone lives.
Note:
This method may be restricted by local laws and privacy policies, so before trying to obtain public records of citizens in a certain place, please understand the local regulations in advance and obtain this information through legal channels.
iii. Post “Help Find” Ads
In some emergency cases, you can try to post an “Finding People” Ad in a local newspaper or bulletin boards. When someone sees your Ad and happens to know the address of someone you are looking up, they may contact you and provide you with some clues.
Note:
Using this method may expose your intention to find someone’s address and bring the risk of personal privacy information leakage to the person. Worse, the person you are looking for may be very angry that you posted his information in the Ad.
V. FAQ:
i. Are there any other ways to look people up?
Of course. In this developed online world, if you have a picture of someone, you can also find the other person by searching the picture online. However, when using this method, you must prevent the disclosure of other people’s privacy, otherwise you may inadvertently infringe on other people’s portrait rights.
ii. How to find someone’s location with phone number?
Search for keywords such as “online cell phone tracking tools” or “find someone’s address by phone number” in your browser, you will find that there are many tools support you to find out someone’s location by merely using their phone number. But please be careful to verify the legitimacy of these tools first.
iii. Is there a 100% free people search?
I believe there will be some free tools available, but I advise against using them because they may illegitimately record the provided information and use it for malicious purposes. Some tools are not entirely free, but they offer very affordable trial periods, like TrackMobi and Spokeo.