A New and Easy Way of Locating a Person

It’s now easy to locate the address of the place you want to find or go to. Google it. Better yet, use Wikimapia, or Google earth or Google maps. But how do you find a person who doesn’t have a cellphone, who is not at home on a Friday night, but is out with people you don’t know? And you need something urgent or very important from him…

Just recently, my friend needed to find his brother. ASAP. He wanted to know the password to his brother’s laptop where the research materials and updated files for our paper were stored. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to finish our paper. So, we had to act on it. Fast.

What we did was to go to the nearest Internet café along Katipunan. My friend logged in on YM. His brother wasn’t online. Neither was any of their common friends here in Manila online as well. Then he logged in on Facebook. He asked those people online, at least those who might possibly know the cellphone number of a friend of his brother’s, whom we suspected to be with the brother at that time. One person gave us the friend’s number. We called the person. Negative. He was not with the brother. But he said that the brother might be with another friend of theirs. So we contacted that person. Still, to no avail. Time was running out.

We used Facebook and YM and cellphone at the same time, in a trial-and-error method, just to be able to locate his brother, and get the password so we can work on our paper. We were getting desperate, until finally, we were able to contact his brother! Through a friend of a common friend who was online on Facebook at that time. The rest was history, so to speak. Hehe.

Of course, it wouldn’t have come to this had my friend made a back up file, at least online; or, had I also saved the files in my laptop. Still, it was just fascinating how, in this day and age, we are able to find people – with facility and ease – not just through the use of cellphones, but also through the Internet, through Facebook, or YM for that matter.


Reody Anthony M. Balisi
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