Foreign social facebook network still not gained popularity in RuNet. This is due to several reasons, including the difficult search for people and their further addition to friends. If you encounter a similar problem, then this article will help to understand the methods and tools for adding friends and acquaintances.

Using the standard search form

Simplest and enough effective way the implementation of the mechanism is the use of a specialized search form, which is located at the top above the main page of the profile. To complete the task it is necessary:

Find a specialized line, put the cursor in this place and activate the ability to enter the data of the person you are looking for;
Enter the last name and first name of the user with whom you are going to make friends;

After that, everything related to the desired person will appear in the materials. Now you need to go to the process of choosing your person;
Next, you need to find the button for more results, which is located at the end of the list;

All options of persons who possess the given name and surname will be located here. It is worth noting that on Facebook there is no possibility of filtering by age, location and other parameters, as in the search for Vkontakte people, so it will take a long time to search. We recommend that you enter in the line not only personal data, but also the name of the city.

Finding friends via mail

Despite the lack of filters, the search can be done using other tools. According to the developers, such methods allow you to determine as accurately as possible the person you know, which provides some protection against spam, annoying ads and stains from unknown individuals. To add a user using this methodnecessary:

Go to the friends tab, and find the add friends button. After that, you will visit a special page where you should pay attention to the right column;

Here will be presented several options for filling. Each mail allows you to search for friends with whom you corresponded, if any social network. It also provides a basis for email searches.

We draw your attention to the fact that when entering mail, people with whom you are in contact, skype and some other areas of cooperation are automatically searched.

Finding a person is not only your task

In cases where a person cannot find a friend, you should perform actions aimed at filling out and filling out your profile. If you do not find, then you must be found. Fill out each form thoroughly, highlight the key points that combine you with the person. Among these data may be work, studies at a university or school, and other important points.

Many of the familiar moment find themselves in the proposed to acquaintance. Almost all the persons who provided the correct information will certainly be found. This also works with the addition of mutual friends. A person in a chain can be found thanks to another common acquaintance.

Otherwise, you need to find other ways to communicate with the right friend, to transfer a link to the profile, which will become the basis for maintaining relations at a distance. In the modern world, there should be no place for loneliness, so everyone will use the recommendations and find a friend, distant relative or other important person.

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Most people are active users of social networks. Statistics only confirm this opinion. Indeed, on average, a resident of our country spends on social networks from 40 minutes to 2 hours a day. And every year the number of accounts increases by 10%.

There is nothing strange in such evidence. After all, social networks allow you to have a good time and help to complete many actions. For example, you can often read articles on how to search for people or by parameters in a few minutes.

Features of working with a resource

The first way to search for people on Facebook by country:

enter in the search box at the top the data of the person that you have (last name, first name, middle name) and select "Find more results for the search." Here you can also specify the country, city, educational institution;
select the “Show more results” function if you did not find the person you were looking for;
indicate the name and surname in English, if the result was not the right person.

Here's how to search for people on Facebook around the city: you must consider the fact that the information on the page may not be displayed correctly. For example, a girl lives in a small village near the Moscow region, and the account may be entered settlement Moscow. Therefore, there is a need to repeat the queries in several ways.

Alternative way

Here's another tip on how to search people on Facebook using your email:

go to the list with friends;
select “Find Friends” (the button is on the right);
click on the icon corresponding to your email;
enter her address and password;
select "Find Friends."

This way you can find people to whom you have ever sent a message from this email address. If these individuals are registered on the Facebook social network, a positive result will surely appear on the page. In the same way, you can find people using Skype, ICQ.

How to search for people on Facebook by age? Unfortunately, this function is not provided in this social network. Facebook hides age filters. But still there is a way out of the situation. When searching, you can specify the possible time period for registering a user in a social network or select the educational institution in which this or that person studied.

Facebook Search

This article will talk about how to use Facebook search and how to search for people on Facebook.

First, let's figure out why this social network is needed, and how the search engine on Facebook works. It is currently the largest social network that covers a large number of people from all over the world who share common interests.

Main attribute of any "Social Network", of course, "Search" - search if someone does not know. Without it, you would agree that it would be problematic to find a person on Facebook, or some community he needs that suits his preferences.

After all, the specifics will not hurt here, we begin to discover the search on Facebook.

Step 1

Our first action is to log in to Facebook, or rather, to your account.

Enter your username and password, click "Login". Upon successful login, the following page should appear:

In the screenshot above, you see that under the arrow, this is actually the Facebook search. Below you will learn in more detail how to use it, and how to search for people on Facebook.

To find the information we need, we resort to a search, Facebook helps us in this, or rather to find a group, a friend whom we have not seen for a long time, or a friend.

Step 2

Suppose you have long wanted to find a specific group related to music. Let's look at an example of how to do this.

Suppose it is classical music . We type this request into search string Facebook and click on the magnifier icon. You should see all the groups with a similar name.

Choose the one you like on this request and rejoice. The first results shown are groups or pages with the greatest number likes and readers.

Step 3

Some people wonder, how to find a person through a social network? Here, everything is the same as with the search for groups. You also use the search line, which helps to search for people, Facebook also gives us information on our request.

Another way to find friends

To make your searches easier, Facebook offers features such as import contact list your friends from other places. It can be Vkontakte, or email. After that, Facebook will easily find your friends.

Or you yourself can see the list of possible friends that they offer you.

Another outstanding way is to invite future friends individually. You just need to enter the email address of the invitee and write him a short personal message.

To summarize

From the proposed article, you learned how to find a person on Facebook. If this information was not well received, then you can resort to watching a video tutorial on finding friends on Facebook and what is the search itself. Here is a link to one of these videos:

Facebook is an international social network where people communicate, share interests, opinions. You can also talk with people from other countries, find out their life, their principles, values, etc. After all, finding a foreigner on Facebook is tantamount to finding a Russian person on Vkontakte.

Do not limit yourself, communicate, get to know the world and people together with it. Perhaps for you the information in this article will become a significant burden on the path to the development of Facebook.

Updated: July 28, 2017

Hello dear readers of the blog site. I want to continue the conversation about such a wonderful social network (especially for doing business) like Facebook (read about if you need it).

Earlier, we met in full detail with that in this social network, and today we’ll talk about how to learn how to effectively and profitably use the search built into this network.

The problem here is that in the Russian segment of Facebook, the search works pretty poorly, but even with the help of it, as well as a group or business page by keywords. There really are a few nuances that you need to know about which I will tell you about.

In addition, we will talk about ranking factors and the basic conditions that must be met in order to promote your Facebook page or group to the Top Facebook for the desired key request. Well, we’ll also get acquainted with one that allows you to solve almost any problem and find anything, though by entering queries only in English. But first things first.

How does Facebook search work by default?

let's get a look how Facebook Search Works? In fact, it works in a slightly different way than we are used to. For example, in Yandex () or Google (), you can actually enter the query phrase as it was formulated in your head. The search engine will understand you and give you the sites most relevant to your request (as far as possible). It goes without saying that you can also use all kinds of operators, about which I wrote in the articles at the links above.

On Facebook, the search is not so flexible at the moment. In any case, in its Russian-language segment. A little later we will talk about social search, which is currently launched only in English, but it can already be used to solve very interesting and useful tasks. Which ones? I will write about this a little lower, but for now let's look at what they “palm off” us in the Russian-language segment and what can be found with this tool.

So, facebook search bar located at the very top of any page (white box on a blue bar). After entering a request into it, the results that are most relevant to the opinion of this social network will be shown below in the drop-down window. To see the whole list, you will need to click on the link located at the bottom of this drop-down window, or click on the magnifying glass icon at the end of the search line (clicking on Enter will open the topmost search result, not the search page). Not quite familiar after Yandex or Google, but you can adapt.

Facebook can share search results by sections (people, business pages, groups, etc.). Depending on the query text, the results from the most suitable group will prevail in the drop-down window.

When you go to the page with full results (there will be a lot of options), then in the left column this social media will kindly provide you with the opportunity to select only those results that will correspond to a specific section:

By default, the filter from the left column is used. "The closest". How exactly the results are ranked in this case (arranging them according to their places and forming the Top) we will talk a little lower, but for now you can see how the other filters work.

In principle, their purpose is obvious - to weed out the results from sections of Facebook you do not need. For example, if you are looking for a person by last name, then it makes sense to use the "Users" filter, and if you are looking for a business page for "website promotion", then entering this query makes sense to apply the "Pages" filter. You can read. I think that everything is obvious here.

Now what directly related to the search. The query you entered in the search string will be searched in the names of users, the names of their pages, profiles, groups, etc. Moreover, if the query consisted, for example, of two words, then the results will offer you, for example, business pages containing these two words in their name (or they will be included in more complex words).

Therefore, if, for example, you want to type yourself a database of groups or business pages on a specific topic (for some of your business tasks), which can be described with several keywords that are close in meaning, it would be better to enter these words individually in the search bar so as not to overly narrow your target audience. For example, instead of the query "website promotion and promotion" it would be better to break through two separate requests: "website promotion" and "website promotion". I think that the meaning will become more clear in practice.

It turns out rather clumsy. Well, no fancy or detailed semantics. It also becomes obvious that by default (and even by name), but not in areas with information about the user, his interests, etc. Although, this information may be displayed in the search results as a snippet (depending on the section to which it relates - users, groups, pages, places, events or applications).

How to find a person on Facebook?

In a social network ordinary users most often they are looking for people, not pages or groups. To do this, by default, this system provides several options that reduce the search circle by specifying any data from the user’s profile (Email, phone, place of residence, study or work). Everything is quite simple and primitive, but I think it's worth talking about it anyway. Below we will consider a more advanced way of social search, but for now let's talk about the "classics".

How to find people on Facebook by phone or Email?

In fact, in addition to searching by name and surname, the person you need can be found by entering his or her phone number in the search bar. If it was their user who used them during registration or indicated when filling out the profile, then the only correct search result will be displayed.

The same thing will happen when entering a mobile phone number:

Quite effective and quick wayif you know these contact details of the opponent. True, there are several nuances.

Firstly, it’s easier to search, of course, by inboxthan by phone number, because it is mandatory to be indicated during registration (if you did not use any special mailbox to which everything is registered in order not to receive spam later).
Secondly, given information the user can close from indexing by internal search of Facebook in the privacy settings. In this case, searching by E-mail or phone will not give anything.

Let’s see how you can block this search option if you have a desire, i.e. how to prevent you from finding you on Facebook via email or phone number. First you’ll need to go to your account settings by selecting the “Settings” item from the drop-down menu at the far right of the arrow (pointing down or a triangle - as you like):

On the page that opens, select the "Privacy" item from the left settings menu. On the page that opens, we are interested in the area located at the very bottom under the name, namely the first two fields in it. To change these settings, you will need to click on the "Edit" button in the right line on the right:

The default option is “Everything”, but you can replay this and narrow down the range of people who can successfully conduct such a search only to their friends on this social network. Well, or choose the middle option - friends of friends, which will significantly expand the circle of "favorites."

How to find people on Facebook by region, place of study or work?

When you enter the name or surname of the person you want to find in the search line of this social network, then open all the results (using the corresponding link at the bottom of the drop-down window) and select the "Users" filter from the left menu, then in addition to everything, they’ll offer you more Three filters that you can use to narrow your search and not see a bunch of results that are not interesting to you.

To the line of the first filter "Location" You can enter the geographical name of the city. A drop-down list will appear, allowing you to specify which particular place you had in mind:

You can also try to use the field and enter the name of the company where the person you are looking for works in it. The same can be done using the field, i.e. enter, for example, the name of the higher or secondary educational institution where he studied.

However, it should be borne in mind that the search will be carried out according to the user's profile, and how he wrote there (for example, MPEI or the Moscow Energy Institute) is difficult to guess, because there can be many options for writing at the same educational institution.

By the way, if you don’t need any fields of additional filters (for example, changed your mind about filtering by city), then you can click on the cross to the right of it. You can return the field back using the “Add Filter” button that appears below.

How to get into the top Facebook search results?

When you drive something into the search bar of this social network, then an analysis of the results can lead you to think that it’s not entirely clear why and why, in fact, the SERP was constructed in this way.

Why is your business page or group with a huge number of fans or subscribers lower than other pages (), which have much less good? Where's the justice? A? But it is, but it lies behind those things that we sometimes do not notice.

Let's look closely at the results and try to find some kind of relationship in order to figure out which factors most affect the ranking in the search for Facebook. Suppose I want to joke on the topic of business pages devoted to "website promotion." Logic in the formation of the results, as already mentioned, is not observed (a page with a huge number of readers is lower than the page with almost no fans):

Also in the snippet (under the heading of one of the search results) the number of your friends can be displayed (under my account they simply are not in this topic) who have joined this page, but this number is not the main ranking factor on Facebook, because it can be located at the top a page with a much smaller number of your friends involved than the one below. The number of occurrences of a key request in the page title or its description does not give any explicit dependence either.

It turns out that some obvious criterion by which the issuance is ranked is not visible. However, it remains relevant. In conventional search engines, we can at least somehow imagine (there are, by the way, a lot of them). Here we must take into account the fact that we are dealing with a social network, which means it will be logical to take into account the criteria specific to this environment.

Key Facebook Ranking Criteria you can probably imagine something like this:

in the name of the page, group, (not real) profile, where not keys, but keys are used. Those. Availability keywords is a prerequisite for getting into the issuance of Facebook, but not yet sufficient to get into the Top (read about that). The ranking of the results selected in this way will be carried out using the following criteria.
(by clicking on the “Like” button on the pages that appear in the search results) or. But not a simple number, but taking into account the number of your Facebook friends who fell into this number of fans or participants. Obviously, in this situation, the issuance will vary for different users, because a different number of their friends will be involved.
with pages and groups involved in the SERP. Interaction should be understood as likes, writing posts, comments and other activity. This ranking factor further personalizes the search results for the same query made by different users of this social network.
ranked by this key query. That is, it takes into account how often and how regularly new content is added. This is a social network, which means that the liveliness of information is an important criterion and an undeniable advantage.
Quantitative reflection within a Facebook page or group. All likes are taken into account (not only from your friends), comments, etc. things. Their total number is taken into account, as well as the regularity and duration of this activity.

Most likely, it is the above criteria that determine (in combination) which search result will be in the first place, which in the second, and so on (that is, responsible for building the Top). The mechanism itself is not known to anyone, and the degree of influence of each criterion is also not fully understood. But it’s enough just to know them and try to improve as much as possible, thereby getting to the Top with more and more users of this social network, if you decide to use the internal search.

Basically, based on the above arguments several conclusions can be made:

The issuance of the same search query for different users will differ (strongly or not), because they all have different people recorded as friends, and these same friends they have a different number. And they can interact in different ways with ranked business pages or groups (more active or passive). Your activity is also taken into account, but not as some kind of prevailing factor.
Therefore, if you want as many network users as possible would be in the top issue for any request you need, you need to:
1. This key request would be in the name of the page or group.
2. Have on the page (those who clicked on the Like button), because this increases the likelihood that among them there will be friends of the person who enters this request. In fact, this can be called an increase in the social ranking of your Facebook page.
3. On your page or in a group. Content drives not only on sites, but also on a social network (there is a way). If it is interesting (they like it, like it, comment it, repost it), then Facebook will increase the search ranking of your page and it rises in the search results (it will tend to Top).

It is precisely the degree of compliance with the last three conditions that will determine whether you will be in the Top of the current user's SERP or not.

Facebook Social Search

This is a new kind of search that appeared a couple of years ago. It is available, however, so far only for English-speaking users of this social network. Distinguish it from what we examined above, is that rather than stupidly looking for the words entered in group names or user names. At the same time, it takes into account the social connections and preferences of the user who carries out this search.

You can enter whole sentences and he will understand you (for example, “music that my friends like” or “a cafe in Moscow where my friends visited” or “motocross lovers from Uryupinsk”). But, unfortunately, all this works only in English and the introduction of the given queries “as is” in the search line (in Russian) will not lead to anything good. Trying queries in English is also useless:

What to do? Just need switch the interface of your Facebook account to English and semantic search is activated automatically. How to do it? Pretty simple. Go to home page WWW.FACEBOOK.COM (in the news feed) and at the bottom of the third left column (which is located to the right of the feed itself) find the “Russian” link:

It will allow you to switch the interface language. From the list that opens, you will need to select the option English (US) (American English). After that, the search string will already begin to understand semantic queries, but entered in English. This does not mean that you can search only by the bourgeois part of the network. It all depends on the wording of your request.

For example, if you want to find among Facebook users women of a certain age and living at the same time in a certain place (for example, to make them some kind of commercial offer or somehow motivating this unnatural desire), then it will be enough to enter a query of the form:

Women who live in Moscow and older 20 and younger 30

Changing in it only a range of ages and a city in order to tailor it to your tasks. The logical “And” here looks like “and”, which makes it clear to the search engine that all these conditions (in fact there are three) must be met.

If you enter a query directly in the search bar (rather than pasting it entirely using copy-paste method), Facebook will offer you tips (similar to regular search engines) sorted by the frequency of use of this phrase when trying to search by other network users.

At the same time, they will be the same as we voiced above. Nothing has changed in this regard, but this is not the point, because the most important thing is that now you can explain with words what you want to find. In a social search, the query words themselves will not be searched, but the meaning that you put in them. The difference is substantial and provides almost unlimited possibilities.

At the same time, search results can still be filtered by sections that you are primarily interested in. In our example, we obviously wanted to find people matching the given criteria, so it would be logical to switch to the second tab “People”.

Finding a person in any social network is not a complicated matter. In the end, this is precisely what these resources are for. Not losing popularity, Facebook has some features that allow you to find friends with minimal time and effort.

How to find a person on Facebook

The first and main way to search for friends is to use a page specially designed for this purpose. To get results for your query:

on the top panel, click on the icon with the image of people - "Requests to add to friends";
under it you will see a link with the signature "Find Friends";
click to open new page with a variety of search tools;
the section “You can know them” is the recommended Facebook contacts, which were selected on the basis of common interests;
if such a list did not satisfy your thirst for dating, continue to search using the sidebar on the right (if you looked at the list, return to the very top of the page);
fill in the proposed fields in order to narrow the list - enter the name and surname, city, school and so on;
if you are not sure what information to enter, follow the prompts that Facebook will offer;
here you can specify only one email (or an account of another service, for example ICQ, Twitter) to find a person whose personal data you do not know;
you can export all your contacts from Gmail to Facebook to search based on the emails left.

How to find a person on Facebook - using the search field

This method is an accelerated search by key criteria - for example, name and surname. The search field is located at the top of the page and is indicated by a picture with a magnifying glass. You can also use email or phone number. If the person chose to hide them, he will not be in the list of results. Interestingly, Facebook can handle requests, such as “Find people who like the same thing as me,” by analyzing profile data. And a few more tricks related to finding people.

Can't find a friend by first name and last name? Maybe something is wrong in the search engine. Try installing the Facebook app on your smartphone and tablet to search again.

Examine your friends list of friends, maybe you accidentally stumble on exactly who you need.

Are you sure that you entered the name and surname correctly, but there is nothing in the results? Try to “guess” a link to a person’s profile using templates:

At the end of the list of results of any search on Facebook, do not forget to click on the link “Show more ..” to find exactly what you want. You can even search people on Facebook without having your own account. Just go through