| Well over half a million people per day search to find | | | | Getting Addresses of Friends, Relatives, or other |
| the address of a friend, relative, contact, or other | | | | Personal Contacts |
| person involved with our lives. Our range of reasons is | | | | When we meet a new person, few of us are |
| broad, and includes security, business, and personal | | | | comfortable enough to ask them directly questions like: |
| motives. | | | | “Where do you live?” or “May I visit?” It |
| Identifying Someone's Location to Feel Secure | | | | could be someone we really like. Perhaps we share |
| Probably at one time or another we have all received | | | | big interests, hobbies, philosophical views, or a love for |
| unwanted phone calls of some kind. These often | | | | sports & activities with them. On the other hand, it |
| come in the form of unscrupulous telemarketers calling | | | | could simply be a long lost friend or a relative who's |
| outside of legal jurisdiction, annoying pranksters who've | | | | moved and we want to mail. |
| pegged our number as the source of their | | | | How to Find a Person's Address |
| entertainment, or even dangerous threats from | | | | As our ways of communicating advance, it seems like |
| unidentified sources which may or may not be credible. | | | | the methods for finding someone's address are |
| Caller ID rarely helps, as these calls are often named | | | | becoming more archaic. Phone books become useless |
| ambiguously: 'private caller', 'toll call', 'out of area'. | | | | in the wake of private numbers and cell phones, and |
| Knowing where these types of calls are coming from | | | | the Internet usually presents only an online version of |
| can be a significant source of comfort and | | | | the same. |
| reassurance. | | | | The 'darkweb', as it's called, does present us with |
| Locating the Address of a Business Acquaintance | | | | another option, however. Search engines can only go |
| Often when we meet new potential business | | | | into some types of websites, and not usually |
| acquaintances, it occurs when we are occupied with | | | | databases. Yet databases contain millions of public |
| multiple things at once and have little time. This often | | | | records which hold cell phone numbers, addresses, and |
| results in collecting only very basic information from the | | | | the other information of most people in our country. |
| meet such as a name and phone number. However, | | | | Special 'reverse phone directories' can be used to |
| we may find the need in the future to send them | | | | search these databases quickly and turn up what |
| some documents, a formal invitation, or other mailing. | | | | we're looking for. Hence, we no longer have to be in |
| Phone calls are not always the most convenient | | | | the 'dark' regarding information about the people |
| method of communication, for either party. Addresses | | | | connected to our lives. |
| are very useful in this situation. | | | | |