Expert Tips to Find Social Media Accounts

Dave Moore - July 25, 2024

Finding someone’s social media account may quickly become overwhelming if you don’t know where to start. While the search bar on each social media platform can be helpful in locating someone’s account, it often results in disappointment. Luckily, it isn’t the only way to find social media accounts.

Our article will detail how to find someone’s social media accounts using a variety of methods, from the traditional approach of entering their details in the search bar to using additional information you have about the person.

Continue reading to the end to discover practical strategies to find social media accounts. If one doesn’t work, there’s surely another that will lead you right to the social media accounts you’re trying to find.

Effective Ways to Find Social Media Accounts

Below, you’ll find four effective methods for finding social media accounts. Whether you’re trying to learn more about a potential romantic partner or investigating people around your kids, at least one of the following will help you find social media accounts.

1) Search on Social Media Platforms

While it may seem simple (and obvious), you can find social media accounts using the built-in search function of social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn are all social media platforms that have a search bar where you can look for users.

However, this is more or less a basic way to look for someone’s social media accounts. You will only find someone’s social media accounts using the built-in search if they aren’t trying to hide their profile.

For example, you won’t be able to find their profile if they are using a different name on social media to prevent others from seeing their account. The same applies if the person doesn’t allow others to find them in the privacy settings.

Depending on the social media platform, you may also be able to find people by their phone number or email address. If the person has connected their email address or phone number and allows others to find their accounts with these details, you can simply enter what you have in the search bar to find their social media accounts.

2) Use Google Search

Google indexes billions of web pages at any given time, many of which are social media accounts. You can use Google search to find social media accounts by simply searching for the person’s name and including the name of the social media platform next to it.

However, you can also narrow down the results by searching for an exact match from a specified website.

For example, instead of searching for John Doe Facebook, try “John Doe” site:facebook.com.

You can replace ‘site’ with the direct URL of the social media platform and enter the individual’s name in quotation marks for exact match results. Doing this will enable you to let Google know that you want results only from a specific website that includes results that exactly match your query.

Additionally, a Google image search can help you find social media accounts if you have a picture of the individual. You can upload their photo to Google Images and do a reverse image search to find their social media accounts. Although the chances of finding someone’s social media accounts this way aren’t as high as following the methods below, it is worth trying.

One crucial thing to note about using Google to find social media accounts is that it only works with accounts set to public. For example, Google won’t be able to find someone’s Instagram account if it is set to private. Fortunately, there are more effective methods for finding hidden social media accounts than Google search. You’ll discover how to find private social media profiles below.

3) Sync Your Contacts

If you know the phone number of the person you’re trying to find, you can save it in your contacts and sync contacts with the social media platform to locate their account.

Depending on the social media platform, you’ll be able to identify their social media profile or find them through the suggested accounts. Instagram, for example, doesn’t point directly to accounts upon syncing your contacts, but you’ll see accounts associated with your contacts under Suggested for You.

The chances of finding social media accounts by syncing contacts are high. However, the person must link their phone number to the account for this method to work. Otherwise, you won’t be able to find their account by syncing your contacts. Also, you can’t find social media accounts this way if they don’t allow others to find their account in the privacy settings.

4) Use Information.com

Lastly, the most effective way to find social media accounts is through our people search tool. It works the best out of all the methods we’ve shared above because you won’t need to dig through different social media platforms or search engines. You can simply enter the individual’s email address or phone number for a comprehensive people search. You can also use the individual’s name and state to begin your search.

Here’s how to get your search started to find social media accounts:

1. Go to our people search.
2. Enter the name, city, and state of the individual.
3. Click search and let Information.com compile a detailed report that will include their social media accounts.

Finding someone’s social media accounts using our people search tool is as simple as that. One of the best features of our people search is that it will also find hidden profiles and online dating accounts.

Get Started on Finding Social Media Accounts

We’ve covered a wide variety of methods you can utilize to find social media accounts. To start, you can search for the person on different social media platforms using the built-in search features of each platform or use Google to locate their account.

However, you will encounter challenges if the person uses a different name on social media or has set their profile to private. In these cases, you won’t be able to find their social media accounts so easily.

While these methods have some chance of finding someone’s social media accounts, the limited capabilities of each social media platform make our people search tool the surest way to do so. Even if you only have the individual’s name to get started, you will be able to find all of their social media accounts once you locate the person.

In addition to social media accounts, Information.com helps you discover other information, such as:

• Criminal records
• Current and past addresses
• Court records
• Educational background
• Traffic violations
• Relatives

With all its capabilities, our people search tool offers more than finding social media accounts. Head over to our people search to get started on discovering beyond someone’s social media accounts.