May 6, 2024
Social Media

How to Find Someone’s Birthday on Social Media

Lisa Youngby Lisa Young

It is no doubt that social media networks have become an integral part of our lives. We use them for communicating with friends, relatives and even business activities, through calls, photos, videos and messages. It is no surprise to want to find out ways on how to find someone’s birthday on social media. This guide offers comprehensive methods to use social media to lookup someone’s date of birth. Later in the article, we also recommend a social media searcher that you can use to lookup people on social media quicker.



The good thing about social media platforms though is that they support lookups with a number of options. You can look up using a name, username, phone number, email address, residential address, business name for example. It is advisable to try searching with a number of these options if one does not give you the results you are looking for. Let us get into more detail below.

Types of Social Media Birthday Searches

There are basically two key ways to discover someone’s date of birth from social media networks. It is through the profiles and posts.

Most social media networks allow users to create profiles on them so as to be found by other users when they search for them. Users have the option of including birth information on their profiles if they choose to.

Social networking sites also lets users post on their platform on a regular basis. Some users might post on their birthday or their friends, relatives or colleagues might post congratulating them. Users might also post pictures celebrating their birthday too.

Profile Searches for Birthdays on Social Media Networks

As mentioned earlier, profiles are one of the ways to find someone’s birthday on social media. Considering that profiles created by users on most social networks have an option to include date of birth information, the searching criteria is the same.

Prominent social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn all have profiles or bios where you can look up someone’s date of birth. You can search for the date of birth from all of them using the search details mentioned (name, username, phone number, email address).

All these social media platforms will let you search for the person’s profile on their search bar. You can locate the person on them even if you are not friends when you search. You can also find social media profiles by email address

To find profiles on them you will need to go to the search bar, type in your search details and search. You will then be presented with the person’s profile or bio. Go through the profile or bio and try to find out if they included their birth information on it.

Posts Searches on Social Media Networks

You will need to go through the posts that the person posted going a year back. You might find posts or pictures of the person you are looking for. Searching from posts requires that you exercise patience especially if the person posts regularly on their feeds.Sites that will let you view posts are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Myspace and LinkedIn. Users posts updates on them on regular bases.

Facebook has another function called ‘Events’’ that you can capitalise on. To use this function, login on Facebook. Find the ‘Events’’ function and click on it. You will be led to another function called ‘Birthdays’. Click on it. This will take you to a list of previous, current and coming birthdays of all your friends on Facebook.

Twitter usually shows balloons on the tweets of the person when it’s their birthday. So you might need to be on the lookout for those.

You can also go through the person’s profile and posts on LinkedIn and try and find that date of birth. Notifications are normally send to the person you search on LinkedIn and you might find yourself having to explain what you were doing on their profile.

Here is an Instagram profile finder guide to get you started on Insta.

All in all, these methods rest on the person having included their date of birth information on their profile or posts.

Note that some social media sites like Facebook allow users to set their accounts to private. This means that only the user’s friends are able to view the user’s profile. You will then need to be friends with the person to view their profile.

You can do that by sending the person a friend request. You will then have to wait for them to approve it before you are able to access their profile.

See: How to find someone’s hidden profile on social media

Search from Friends Profiles

If finding the birthday from any of these sites prove futile, you can try contacting the person’s close friends, family or colleagues on these social platforms. They might be able to help. You can even try calling them if you have their contact details or meeting them.

Friends also tag each other on social network sites like Instagram. It is also recommended that you check on the friends tags section on social network sites for tagged photos.

However, people might lie about their date of birth on profiles for a number of reasons. The unfortunate part is there is no way to verify the date of birth on social media sites unless you verify the information you find there with other sources like people search sites with birthday reports.

Social Media Search Engine

People are typically signed up to more than one social media site. It is a good idea to find as many of the person’s profiles as possible. This way you increase your chances of finding that he/she has shared the birthdate in at least one of them. You can of course do the profile search manually or alternatively use a tool like social searcher.

We have found this tool to be quite effective in bringing up anyone’s profile from the major social network sites. You simply enter the name of the person and hit search. You can, of course use filters for more search options. Visit the site here and watch the video below

Additional Information

Of course, these are not the only options there is online that can help you on how to find someone’s birthday on social media online. Below is a list of specific guides on how to use them to find a birthday.



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