Find people that shares your interest

2006-08-27 | By: A. Lundgren | Comment on this article

There are millions of people out on the internet every day. And unless you got a really really unique interest there should be several persons that share your interest.

There are several different methods to get in contact with someone that shares your Interest. It doesn't matter if you want to find a friend that you could spend some time with in real life, or if you want to find someone to share your interest online we'll help you with the basics and the rest is up to you.

We can almost guarantee that you'll find someone that shares your interest. And even if you can't find anyone that shares your interest you could always start a website where you talk about your interest and let other people come to you. Starting a website is really easy and can be done totally free of charge.

If you want to find someone that shares your interests to spend some real time with. You could also read this page: How to find a date. The methods described in that article could be used to find someone to spend some time with. It doesn't have to be a love relation; it could be used to meet friends as well.

You should read this article if you want to find people online that shares your interest. That could lead to a lifelong friendship or only a couple of hours to see what others are saying about your interest.

All search terms we relate to in this article will be shown like this:

search term

You should be able to use that search term in any search engine. But if you want to be sure that it will work we recommend one of the following: Google, Yahoo! search or MSN search.

Find the large, most visited sites

If you do an ordinary search for your interest you'll find the largest most famous sites available. Most of the time you'll be able to find everything you need and much more on those sites. But sometimes they may be a little unpersonal and business oriented. We'll start by showing you how to find those sites and a bit further down we'll show you how you could find the smaller and often more personal sites.

You could start by doing a search for your interest like this:

interest

Change the word interest to your specific interest. For example: fishing. Doing a search like that will provide you with a really large amount of search results and a lot of them probably won't be to any interest to you. For example: if I want to find other person who likes fishing then I'll be disappointed to get a lot of pages selling fishing equipment.

If your interest gets a lot of commercial webpage's in the search results it may be a good thing to use the minus sign. The minus sign can exclude webpage's that contain the word of your choice.

For example if I do a search for fishing and feels that I get too many sites that is about fly fishing I could do a search like this: fishing -fly. That search will find every page that got the word fishing in them and not the word fly.

The minus sign could be useful to remove words like "shop" or "buy". To get search results that doesn't want you to buy stuff.

When you do a search for your interest you should try to search for more than one word. For example, if I want to find sites about ice fishing I should do a search for "ice fishing" instead of fishing.

Finding more personal webpage's that is about your interest

Now days it has gotten really popular to write your own blog. A blog is like a diary online where people can write about what they think are interesting without having to know anything about programming. These blogs are often written in graphical editors similar to Microsoft Word. So just about anyone can start a blog and write about their interest.

Most blog have functions that you could use to leave a comment. And most bloggers (the person who writes the blog) appreciates when people leave comments on their blogs. So blogs about your interest is a great way to meet people that share your interest.

There are a couple of different ways to find blogs that writes about your interest. The first way is to add the word blog to your search like this:

interest blog

A search for fishing blog will find blogs about fishing. But there are other ways to find blogs about your interest and that is blog search engines. A blog search engine is a search engine that only finds blogs. If you do a search for your interest in one of those search engines you'll find both blogs that are totally devoted to your interest and blogs that have written about your interest one or more times.

You can find one of these blog search engines by searching for something like this:

blog search

Try a couple of different blog search engines until you find one that you like.

Find ways to interact with other people that shares your interest

Many pages have special functions devoted to help people interact with each other. The most common function is a forum. A forum is a webpage where you can read what other people write and write things yourself. Forums are used for discussions more then article publishing but you can find a lot of interesting things in forums. And they are perfect if you need help with anything. If you write a question in one of the larger forums you'll probably get an answer within minuets.

To find a forum that discusses your interest you could do a search for:

interest forum

For example a search for fishing forum will find a lot of forums where fishing is discussed.

Write about your interest

If you can't find anyone that writes anything interesting about your interest you could start your own website. And you don't have to know anything about how to create webpage's. You could start very easy by creating a blog where you write about your interest. And best of all it doesn't cost anything.

There are plenty of guides available on how to start your own blog. A search like this will take you to services that offer you free blogs:

start blog free

That search will find a couple of free blog services and instructions on how to use them.