Alright, that was just a nice way to putting it. Its actually more like...

* I'm bored, its for fun!

* Just trying to locate a friend

* I'm playing detective

* My first step to revenge

What ever it may be, let us continue on with the guide and embrace the sicko within us all. First off, we need information on the victim, ahemm target. We would need at least one of the following...

* A real full name

* An email address

* A general user name

Depending on what you've got, they mean different things so again in point form I'll lay it out to you...

* A real full name - Search this up on Google and with a little blessing from lady luck, you might get real life information such as enrolled courses, gatherings the target attended, contests that the target won, etc. Worse case scenario( for the victim of course, you sad, sad, sadist you... ) would be social security numbers, addresses and grades thanks to some websites who post personal information online. Owh, make sure you put quotation marks around the name to get an exact search.

* An email address - Anyone who has access to the internet is bound to register themselves in some sort of personals. There are tons of them lying around but the two famous ones are Friendster and MySpace. You don't need to register, just type in the email address at the appropriate search box and you might get a profile.

* A general user name - Now this is devious. A simple search using Google and you'll get the victim's browsing pattern on the internet. Mainly information on where the victim registered an account with like forums, portals, blogs, etc.

So there you have it, simple steps to getting to "know" people better. Its all just common sense actually, nothing tech about it.

Now start searching!