Use an Email Address to Find Someone on Facebook
This article teaches you how to find someone’s Facebook profile by searching with their email address. As long as the address is connected to a Facebook account (and the owner has not Lock Down Facebook Privacy), you can easily locate their profile with Facebook Search.
Contents
10 Second Summary
1. Open Facebook.
2. Tap or click the Search box.
3. Type the email address.
4. Tap or click “See results for <email address>.”
Steps
Using a Smartphone or Tablet
- Open Facebook. It’s the blue icon with a white “F” on your home screen (iPhone/iPad) or in the app drawer (Android).
- If you don’t have Facebook installed on your device, Download Facebook from the App Store (iPhone/iPad) or Play Store (Android).
- Tap Search. It’s at the top of the screen.
- Type the email address. You’ll have to type it completely, as Facebook cannot search for a partial email address.
- Tap See results for <email address>. If the email address belongs to someone on Facebook, their profile will appear in the search results.
- You can tap their profile to view it, or tap the Add Friend (+) icon to send a friend request.
- If the search returns no results, the person may use another email address for Facebook, or may have Lock Down Facebook Privacy in such a way that their email address is not searchable.
Using a Computer
- Go to https://www.facebook.com in a web browser. If you’re not already signed in to your account, enter your login information and click Log In.
- Click the “Search Facebook” box. It’s at the top of the screen.
- Type the email address. You’ll have to type it completely, as Facebook cannot search for a partial email address.
- Click See all results for <email address>. If the email address belongs to someone on Facebook, their profile will appear in the search results.
- You can click their profile to view it, or click Add Friend to add them directly from the search results.
- If the search returns no results, the person may use another email address for Facebook , or they may have Lock Down Facebook Privacy in such a way that their email address is not searchable.
