Facebook Insanity

Why is it so hard to find a person in Facebook? I got an invite chat from an old co-worker this morning and I've been trying to 'find' him on Facebook quite a few times today. Why don't they have a "Last, First" name locator? I can tell if it's Dan, so what's the big deal? It's like you have to look through one of the email/chat networks or one of the other social links. You can't just try to find him by name. Seems like a very bad idea to me.

I'll keep trying, but this is insanity not to have a better way to look people up.

UPDATE: Seems there's a simple name search, but you have to get past the recommended account initialization steps which seems to be looking in your existing networks for friends. Seems that would be one of the options in that initial set-up. Oh well... it's done now.