![]() In today’s digital age, building connections in a specific city has become easier than ever. Alternative methods for finding friends include joining Facebook groups related to the specific city, utilizing mutual friends’ networks, and using the “People You May Know” feature.Using Facebook’s mobile app or website on a PC, you can easily search for friends in a specific city by accessing the search bar and using filters to refine your search results.Finding friends in a specific city on Facebook is important for social connections and networking opportunities.Tip: Want more Facebook help? I have tons. Have a good trip and enjoy one of the most exciting cities in the world! That’s how you search for Facebook friends in Manhattan or greater NYC. You may hopefully have better results.Īnd that’s it. Unfortunately it didn’t work at all for me when I tried it. At least you know it’s a problem and can work around it.įinally, Facebook offers this tantalizing option for refining your search: So you’re destined to end up doing what I did: some quick research on all the neighborhoods / cities / boroughs within NYC and then do individual searches for each. ![]() It’s hard to say what’s broken here, but a search for “friends near Kansas City” fails and it’s clear that Facebook isn’t sophisticated enough to know that Overland Park is a city within Kansas City. Which produces other matches, frustratingly: Still, I want to figure out friends in KC, so I’ll search for a few of the biggest cities too, including Leawood, Shawnee, Independence and Overland Park. Notice along the top while you’re here that there are a lot of categories for search results, so you can also search for “Kansas City” and see whom of your friends have posted about the city too: But if I search for “Kansas City, Kansas” Facebook has no idea what I’m specifying, so if any of my friends are in KCK (instead of KCM) then they’re out of luck and I can’t find them. The above shows the results for “Kansas City, Missouri”. Kansas City is an interesting place because the Kansas / Missouri state line goes right through town. This simple search yields three matches for me, with a hint of even more on Facebook: Don’t be shy trying sophisticated searches, like this: To start, I’ll remind you that the search box on the top of the page in Facebook is quite powerful. I’m heading to Kansas City for a quick visit so I did a very similar search – and had a similar partial result – as you’ll see. So in addition to your friends in Manhattan, you’ll need to know the names of the major boroughs and search for those too (e.g., Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, etc). Problem is, while we may think of a city as an aggregate place, Facebook isn’t quite that smart. ![]() Which means that it’s not a big stretch to search through Facebook’s over 1 billion active users to identify people who you’re friends with who also live in a particular city, whether it’s Poughkeepsie, New York or Paris, France. Address, high school, college, vacation destinations, children, relationships, even favorite ice cream flavor and work information. Facebook has an extraordinary amount of information about everyone on the service because, well, we all happily give FB vast amounts of data about ourselves.
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