{"id":145,"date":"2005-12-11T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/why-myspace-matters-for-people-search\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T20:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T01:48:05","slug":"why-myspace-matters-for-people-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/why-myspace-matters-for-people-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Why MySpace Matters For  People Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 41 million registered users, and growing, it&#8217;s easy to see why social network sites like MySpace are fast becoming a valuable new tool for free people search and skip tracing, especially if the person you are looking for is in the thirty-something and younger demographic.<\/p>\n<p>As we have mentioned before on this blog, MySpace, Friendster, Xanga and other social network sites, along with blog search sites, provide a new source for people search and unofficial &#8220;public record&#8221; searches. You may have to modify your people search strategies when searching these sites, since most members do not post their last names on their personal pages or blogs.<\/p>\n<p>People will, however, post their first names, nicknames, age, hometown, interests, current city\/state along with photos and other personal information &#8211; all of which should be considered when searching these sites. As a result, these pages provide a new type of searchable, albeit unofficial, &#8220;public record&#8221; for a large number of these social network users.<\/p>\n<p>While you are not likely to find a phone number or address listed for someone on these sites, you will probably find a lot more personal detail in the information posted than a typical free white pages or public record search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 41 million registered users, and growing, it&#8217;s easy to see why social network sites like MySpace are fast becoming a valuable new tool for free people search and skip tracing, especially if the person you are looking for is in the thirty-something and younger demographic. As we have mentioned before on this blog, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/why-myspace-matters-for-people-search\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Why MySpace Matters For  People Search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}