You're beginning to look for a friend but after viewing the online search results you realize that their name is the same as thousands of others. How can you sift through the results to find a person with an ordinary name? You need to make a list of every piece of information that you can remember about this person. Then you need to write down all of the different ways that you could spell their name out (Chris, Christopher, and Christian). Knowing the area where this person is probably located will help to simplify the search results. In addition, knowing where they were at a certain point in their life will help to eliminate many possibilities. Don't forget to use relatives if you have their information. By this time, you will be ready to conduct your online search.