Spoke to an old mate of mine who said he’s on FB & to ‘find him’, all well & good but he’s got a fairly common name & there’s hundreds of him! Is there an easy way without trolling through all the Neil Thompsons on FB?

his email address is best. via mutual friends.

Befriend them all. You might make a few new friends. I’m not sure how you would organise your phonebook though?

You can also select ‘people’ on the left, and then search by location, education or workplace.

It can be tricky, not helped by people changing avatars seemingly every other day. Mine’s stayed the same for months and months.
Can’t be arsed to change it.

Know anyone with a less common name that will have them as a friend? Find them, look through their list of friends.