How to find your neighbors on Instagram

Find your neighbors on Instagram. With the purpose of social networking or marketing on Instagram to create closer engagement you want to stay in touch, it is only standard that you want to keep a tab on people you feel interested in interacting with. Hence, besides acquiring followers on Instagram, it is equally vital for Instagram users to follow others, and you would be interested to know how to find your neighbor's Instagram. Knowing the features of Instagram will help you find people on Instagram beyond those you know and in whom you take an interest. Searching by using the location feature of Instagram is one way of searching for people, including your neighbor. By reading this article, you get more insights into the ways of finding people.

How to find your neighbors Instagram

To find people you are interested in, including your friends, acquaintances, brands, and celebrities, you can use the ‘Search’ option of Instagram. However, you must input usernames or keywords manually to get accurate results. To start the process of searching, tap on the Magnifying glass icon on the main page of your Instagram account, and the Search option becomes visible on the top above the icon. Here you will find different searching options like 'people,' 'places,' and 'tags.' enter the user name of the person you are looking for or the exact user name to initiate the search.

To search for official accounts of brands and celebrities, enter the name of celebrities and brands with a blue tick mark next to it. To use tags for searching, people choose the tag category, which could be something of your interest like 'Gadgets,' that will populate posts tagged in that category. In this way, you can locate posts and topics that are interesting to you.

Suggested users

In this method, instead of you initiating the search on your own, you can depend on Instagram's suggestions about users who share similar interests like you.  The process starts in the same way as you did earlier by tapping on the Magnifying glass icon, and in the next step, tap on the 'Discover People' tab located under the search bar. It will then generate a list of suggested users and a 'Follow' button beside each and pictures below.  If you find anyone of your interest, tap on the 'Follow' button.

Look for your Facebook friends on Instagram

To widen the search scope, when you are trying to find people on Instagram, you should link your Instagram account to your Facebook account. It will then automatically show your Facebook friends on Instagram. When you log in with your Facebook account, the option of connecting with your Instagram account is available by default. Else, you must permit Facebook to connect to your Instagram account.

The process of finding your friend or other people begin by tapping on the 'Profile' icon located at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.  On opening the 'Profile' icon, go to the top right-hand corner of the screen and tap on the three dots placed vertically one below another that will lead you to the 'Settings.' Here, you will find the option 'Your Facebook Friends' or 'Find your Facebook friends.'  When prompted, tap on it.  You will now see a list of your Facebook friends with a 'Follow' button against each.

Find people by popular posts

In the main search area of Instagram, most of the popular posts show up. These posts have likes and comments but are not related to you. The posts could be anything and not filtered according to your interest. Hence, you will see photos and videos that could relate to anything, but you might find some reason to follow some of the authors behind the posts as these are popular.

To find popular posts, tap on the 'Magnifying glass' icon, and the popular posts will appear on the next page. By scrolling down, you can see more popular posts and tap on them to preview any of these. You can go through the posts to evaluate them or look at the comments and try to understand their quality. If you want to follow any of these, then tap on the 'Follow' button.

Find people by using hashtags

The best way to find the choicest posts of your interest is to use hashtags. Hashtags consist of keywords that can use to search for content comprising of photos that generate your interest. Since using hashtags is the norm for posting pictures and videos on Instagram, it is easy to find content with hashtags.

Your content search will lead you to the people behind it with whom you can connect. The process begins by tapping on the 'Magnifying glass' icon, followed by tapping on the 'Search' icon at the top.  Next, tap on the 'Tags' option to filter your search by entering the keyword. When searching for people using hashtags, first decide on the category to which the content belongs, like 'Technology,' 'Gadgets' etc.  If you choose technology, it will populate all the related tags and the photos associated with it.

Use a third-party website

The process of searching for people on Instagram manually allows you to find people you feel interested in. However, you can look beyond Instagram for some tools that can help in your search.  These third-party websites help you find people based on several factors.

Use the location field

If you are looking for some people near you that can include your neighbors on Instagram, you can use the 'Location' field on Instagram to find out photos and images that you find interesting. When you click on the 'Location' button, it generates a dynamic list of pictures tagged with the respective location. It will help you connect to people of these locations, which you can select from the list. This process has some limitations as you must depend on the users' location, which might not always be accurate or even may be deceptive.

Lastly, you can use third-party search tools to find people on Instagram.