Find People on Facebook From Your Email Address Book

Facebook can find people for you from your email address book. All major webmail services like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail are supported.

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Find on Facebook Classmates

Based on information in the Education and Work section of their profiles, Facebook helps you find former or current high school or university classmates.

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Find on Facebook Coworkers

Similar to the Classmates search, you can also search for Coworkers in your past or current organizations by entering the name of the Company.

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Find People on Facebook From Instant Messaging (IM) Networks

You can simply enter your AOL, ICQ, or Windows Live Messenger credentials to let Facebook find your IM buddies.

Advanced Search Application

Advanced Search 2.0 is a better tool to search for friends on Facebook. Visit this link to access and install the application.

If prompted to share your email address, click No, and click Click here to add the “Advanced Search” application link at the bottom. Click Allow in the Allow Access? prompt to proceed. Advanced Search first prompts you to fill out your profile and contact information to help others find you. You can choose to enter additional information about yourself if you like or leave it blank and click Save and Continue. You can optionally invite your friends to try the app or Skipthat step. Finally, click Add Bookmark to access Advanced Search quickly from your profile.

After you complete these steps, you can access Advanced Search at any time by clicking theApplications link in your Facebook sidebar.

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Find People on Facebook by Age/Gender/Relationship Status/Star Sign

On the Find People tab, you can search for people of a specific Gender and within a certainAge group. You can search by specific Relationship Status, or by their Star Sign. You can even search for people who have the same Birthday as you.

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Find People on Facebook by Location (Country/Region)

You can combine the above search restricting to a specific Country, Region, and City. For example, you can search for single people in your area according to their Star Sign and who they are interested in meeting.

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Find People on Facebook with Similar Interests

For each of the above searches, you can further refine them to find people who share your interests. You can find people according to their Political preferences, or their Religious beliefs. You can restrict searches to people who are members of a Facebook Group.

Best of all, you can use this to find people who are fans of a specific Artist, Celebrity, Politician, Author, or Product/Company Facebook Fan Page.

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Change your Facebook default home page filter.

You can change the default stream you see on the home page by dragging a friend list or network filter above “News Feed” on the left. Most people don’t know that this is possible, but it’s a powerful feature once you’ve created a friend list you like using a lot.Now, you’ll only see updates from “Best Friends” (or whichever list you prefer seeing most often) when you load the home page.
You can only currently use friend lists and networks as your default News Feed filter – not applications. However, you can still rearrange applications in the section below friend lists and networks in order to put your favorite ones on top.

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