Instagram has become the most popular social network of the moment. In recent years it has had enormous growth, which has led millions of people to have an account in it. You may have an account in it, and that at some point you intend to look for someone you know or a brand that has a profile.
When looking for someone on Instagram we have to take several aspects into account. Since it does not work in the same way that other social networks work. Therefore, it is good to know what we have to do or what we must consider in this regard in the popular social network.
Search on Instagram
Unlike other social networks, on Instagram it is common for someone opens a profile without using their real name. Rather, an alias is used, especially in the so-called username. Since there are two details that we should know about the application, both in the creation of the profile like when looking for someone.
On Instagram we can search for someone using their username, which is the name of the profile, to indicate it in some way. If you enter the browser on the social network, it is the name that appears in the URL. But said username does not always match the real name of this person. So when searching, we may not always find the expected result in the application. If we know the username, then the search won't be complex and it won't take long. But if we only know his real name and he does not use that name on the social network, it is somewhat more complex.
A username always gives us a result, which will be that of a certain profile on Instagram, so we know if it is this person or not. A real name is somewhat more complicated, since there may be many more people who have that name, unless it has a very original first or last name, which clearly narrows the search.
How to search for people
This is something we can do in all versions of Instagram, whether we use the computer or the smartphone version. When we enter our account, we can see that at the top we find a search box, with an icon of a magnifying glass. This is where we are going to enter the name we want to search for in the social network. So we click on it and start writing.
We can put the name or username, depending on the data we have about this person on Instagram. As we write, we can see that a list appears below, which usually gets smaller when we enter more letters of the name. Next to each profile we get a small photo. Therefore, it is possible that we can recognize that person in this photo, so that we have already found them. Although if the profile does not have a photo, we may not know if it is the person we are looking for.
The social network lets us enter this profile at all times. The problem is that if we visit the profile, because we want to know if it is this person or not, but then it was not, when we return, we have to start the search again. This is one of the great disadvantages of the social network in this regard. So if that person doesn't have a profile picture and a very common name, it may take a while for us to finish looking for this profile.
Google an Instagram profile
If it is the Instagram account of a known person or a company or brand, we can also turn to Google. Simply enter the name of said brand in the browser and then add Instagram at the end, so that we get the URL that takes us to said profile on the social network. From there, we can log into the account in the browser and follow this account directly.
Google search can also be tested with one person, although this system is not usually the most effective in these cases. But if you are looking for an account with many followers, such as profiles of celebrities or influencers, or brands, it can work very well and it is really simple. Especially if we regularly use the version in the Instagram browser. Since we can follow these accounts directly on the computer.
Name on Facebook
It is a detail that we can take into account, since many users have their Facebook accounts linked to those of Instagram. Therefore, we can search for them using their name on Facebook, or the username they have on Facebook. The most normal thing is that it will be the same in both cases, so that we can find this person in a matter of a few seconds and thus be able to find the person we want.