Right, so my uncle (who runs an alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility as well as counsels troubled folks of all ages) has given me the task of hunting down a 12 year old kid on Facebook.
He's been meeting with the kid and his mom for counseling sessions regularly b/c of a lot of problems the kid is going through (mostly because of his severely dysfunctional family). He's also been threatening suicide as well.
The mother of the young boy told my uncle that he has a facebook page and so my uncle would like for me to track him down, befriend him and see what's going on in this kids mind and what kinds of stuff he talks about while on his personal internet space so that I may relay info back to my uncle. My uncle would also like for me to not just add him as a friend, but also have some influence on him AS a friend while keeping my relationship to my uncle (his counselor) a secret.
As you may know, for better or for worse, Facebook is incredibly locked down (unlike Myspace >_>), so I'm having the damndest time trying to find the little guy.
If you think you can assist me in my search efforts, PM me. I'm refraining from posting his info in an open thread since it's subject to be crawled and indexed in the engines.
Or, if you think you can assist me by offering advice a bit more in depth than "Juss het the find friend buttun right tharr", then I'll be appreciative as well.
If I can't find the kid, my next thought would be to wait for Monday to roll around and make a few phone calls to the junior high schools in his city to find out which one he goes to (stating who I am and my purpose for calling of course), if my uncle hasn't found out which school he goes to beforehand. After that, I'll probably have an easier time locating someone else on FB that goes to his school and search their friends lists for the guy.
Staff, please leave in the lounge. This problem is not about me and I would appreciate the highest amount of traffic. Thanks.