People Search - Paid Vs Free
As information is rapidly becoming available online so is the ability to search for people and their location.
But with so many sites trying to tackle the rapidly growing demand in people search services so information hungry users may be wondering which ones are worthwhile.
Since the creation of social networks such as Myspace.
com and Facebook.
com internet users have become more aware of the ability to people search across the web.
Most social network sites have the benefit of being free and can search for people in their extensive database of users.
However, this is one of their main flaws.
Social network sites rely on users' posting accurate information on their profiles as well as register to their sites with reliable information.
Because of this not only can it be difficult to get correct results when searching for someone but it is almost impossible to run a people search for someone outside of their network of users.
So if you are looking for someone who hasn't registered to sites like Facebook.
com or Myspace.
com then their isn't any way that these sites can give you results for your query.
Furthermore, address and phone number information isn't always available on certain social network sites.
So if try to find a way to contact the queried person outside of the social network then you have to actually ask the person.
This isn't a big problem unless the person owes you money, is on bad terms with you or stole your girlfriend and has run off with her.
There are free information sites that offer phone number and address information when running a people search.
Sites like Whitepages.
com or People.
Yahoo.
com give you the access to address and phone number information.
This might sound enticing but most of the time the results have old and inaccurate data - which in other words is useless.
These free sites also redirect you to paid sites like US Search to give you up to date and accurate information when their databases don't have any results.
So it comes down to if you are willing to get what you pay for.
If you are in need of finding a person's address or phone number information and want to make sure the data you get is accurate and up to date then a paid site is the way to go.
The majority of these results are current and accurate due to the constant updating of information within their databases.
So in a nutshell if you need to run a people search here are the pros and cons of free sites and paid sites: Free Sites
- Pros
- Free>
- More For Fun
- Pictures, blogs, etc Cons
- Inaccurate data
- No phone or address information
- Data is user reliant
- You have to register to each site
- Pros
- Accurate data
- Current information
- Phone & address information
- Cheap prices Cons
- You have to pay