Reverse Cell Phone Search on Facebook and Yahoo

Sometimes, after getting a missed call from a number, you may not like to make a callback at that number to find out the identity. So, if you are not going to make a callback, what’s the way to identify the person behind the number? Well, you can always do a reverse cellphone lookup. There are plenty of cell phone reverse lookup services available to help you out. However, most of these charge you a fee and you may not always be in a position to pay a price. So, what’s the option that you have? You can use sites such as Facebook and Yahoo to search for a phone number. Wonder how? Please read on:

Facebook or any other social networking sites provide an option to the users through which they can leave their phone numbers right in the profile page. The users can off course enable privacy settings and only chosen few people can have access to the phone number details. That being said, not all users are so conscious about privacy options and they set the phone number to be searchable for all the Facebook users. If the person giving you prank calls is one of them, you can find all the details right from the social networking giant.

Here is what you need to do: enter the number you wish to search on the search box available on Facebook. If the algorithm of Facebook is able to find any user with that phone number listed on his or her profile, it will display you the details of that user in the search results page. Now, your job is to go to that profile and find out the person’s identity with help of the profile page. The beauty of using Facebook is that if the person uses Facebook (Which most of the people do anyway), you’ll get more information on the person than any reverse cell phone lookup service would ever be able to provide you. You may even get to see the person through the profile picture.

First of all, you can use the search engine of Yahoo. Just enter the phone number in the search box and hit enter. If anyone at any time entered that number in a page which is accessible to Yahoo bots, then, Yahoo will list that page for you. Now, you go to that webpage and find out if any extra information is present over there or not.

There is another way to use Yahoo for cell phone searches. There is a Yahoo list where you will find the details on various reverse cell phone lookup services. Some of the sites listed over there don’t charge the users any money. Best thing? The list is updated at a regular basis, thereby non-functional services are removed at a regular basis.

People generally use the reverse cell phone lookup services because those help users to avoid a lot of hassle. However, for free lookups, Facebook and Yahoo - both are excellent options.