Previously it was very, very difficult to find friends from the past. To meet with a classmate with whom you studied together for about 20 years ago, you would have to at least interview all your friends and neighbors or even contact the address bureau at all. Social networks allow you to quickly find any person in them registered. How to find people in "Classmates" quickly?
Standard way
If you know the name and surname of the person you need to find, you just need to use the site search. Enter your first and last name. Too many results? Add a year of birth and residence. If you do not know exactly when the person you were looking for and where he lives is better leave these fields empty. You can try to enter a full and diminutive name, in theory, both options should be on request, but any system sometimes fails. When you have enough information about a person, his search is a simple task. What if you do not know much about the right person?
Search for people in the "Classmates" at the place of study or work
Suppose you want to find someone whose name you barely remember, or are you sure that you've changed your surname. This is also real. The site has an advanced search. You can add institutions in which the right person has studied or worked in those or other years. If you are looking for a woman who has married, try to find her relatives by the girl's name. Next, browse the family or friends list of the person found. If you are sure that a relative was found, but you need a person he does not have in friends - you can write and ask. However, this method is not always reliable. The thing is that not all users indicate real information about their career.
Search by interests
Like in many other social networks, there are interest communities in Odnoklassniki. Such a group can be created by any user to communicate with like-minded people. How to find people in "Classmates", knowing about their hobbies? It's very simple - groups can also be found by searching. Then you can join the community and see comments left by its members, or multimedia files. Also a general list of members of the group is open, but in large communities it can consist of several thousand people, and viewing everyone is a rather tiresome task.
How to find a classmate without registering in a social network?
If you do not have your account on the "Odnoklassniki" site, you can use one of the popular search engines. "Yandex" or "Google" - choose to your taste. You can enter just the first and last name, but it's much more effective to add: site: odnoklassniki.ru, for accuracy you can specify the city after personal data. An alternative option is to use the service "Yandex: People". It is necessary to go to the people.yandex.ru (tab above the search string "people") from the homepage of the search engine and enter the data of interest. After that you will see the profiles in various social networks of all the carriers of this combination of name and surname. Site "Classmates" without registration to find a person really allows. But what is the purpose of your search? You, most likely, want to communicate with the person found? And you can not do this without registration. For the sake of justice it is worth noting that it is possible to create your profile in a social network very simply and quickly. At the same time, you can not upload personal photos and limit yourself to a minimum amount of information about yourself.
How to find people in classmates for friendship?
Let the old friend be better than the new two, but sometimes I really want to meet and communicate with someone. Unlike its competitors, the site "Odnoklassniki" is aimed at adults and respectable people and is designed to communicate with real friends. But you can try it with someone here. How to find a person in "Classmates", close in spirit and interests? The recipe is simple - searches are worthwhile to lead in thematic communities and applications for communication. Take into account one feature of the site - it records all "guests". This is what people call a specific page. This means that if you are curious to visit someone's profile, the owner will immediately find out about your visit. You can also put a few positive ratings to the photos of the interested user or statuses. And it is quite possible that you will not have to start acquaintance, but the person you like will write to you. Now you know how to find people in "Classmates", but what if you want to visit the page and not show up in the "guests"? There are paid site options that allow you to hide information about yourself when viewing other people's pages. You can save by creating a new page and calling yourself a stranger's name or asking permission of someone from real friends to use his profile to view the information of interest.