The people searches functions of the worldwide web, then, are my relaxing and personal way of using the Net. With people searches, I have found what I suspected, what I wanted, and what I dreaded to find, all good in the end.
People searches can lead us, that is, to where we want to go, hope to go, once wanted or wished to go, or to where we dreaded we might end up going. They can prevent us, too, from going there. If that is preferable; I love the invention of the Internet!
I started people searches on ex- girlfriends, or ex-lovers whom I had wished were my girlfriends. Or those unattainable friendly girl whom I had, along with 99 percent of the High school girls, wanted to just get the time of day from a glance, a smile, a little tiny hello. I found the one who was dubbed the most beautiful in the yearbook had turned Christian singer.
I found the sexy bad boy with no goals has become a leading Artisan building staircase for the mansions of the well-to-do. I found the quiet hockey goalie who had accompanied me home on Winter nights and later had walked all the way to his home alone one cold and bizarrely Winter night just to tell me others were setting me up for some gag or my friend Simon was now a happily married man who ran his own Silk and other Screen Printing business.
Of course, I also found in my people searches, which were such delightful departures from otherwise delightful work research, the lovers, and friends who had died from car crashes and Cancer, certainly not from aging that is far away, as far as I am concerned.
Nevertheless, people searches can go beyond stoking the curiosity fires. They can aid us in checking out potential clients, employees, or those at the other end of investment sources or deals. People searches can reveal the truth when a fellow Freelancer makes claims that are questionable or a POD (Publish on Demand) publisher is reputedly a Scam Artist taking the money of Writers who want so badly to be published they will fall vulnerable to the snares of the greediness.
I am online using the Internet about 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. I use the Net for everything from emails to weather to researching whatever I am writing on and of course to search people too. I usually have a serious intent, seeking only the most scholarly, technical or informative materials, as the Net is ideal for me a global library which I do not have to drive to, borrow from, and then pay the inevitable late fees if any.
But another gift the Internet brings me is the ability to recall my High School years or even childhood, revisiting my previous High school and checking up on whatever happened to etc. Learning about personal -- unbelievably -- is dead or who is high profile in a career none of expected the guy or girl to go into in the first place.
There are quite a few ways to search people. One of those ways is through Address Lists. Visit Answering Machine Website for information about Network searches.
