Have you experienced the frustration of sending a message to a friend only to find it bounced back to you? Your friend has probably changed their email address and forgotten to tell you about it. If its someone you see at the pub or at work, or can contact by phone, you can just ask them to give you their new address. If email is the only contact you have, however, it becomes a lot more difficult to stay in touch.
The internet has brought us tremendous freedom of communication and competition between internet providers and email providers means that its never been easier to run several email addresses or to change to a new address when you feel like it. Usually, youll send out an email to let people know that you have a new email address, but its not unusual for people to be missed off the list and lose your details.
So once you discover you cant contact your friend by email, what do you do? You can try mutual friends to see if they can pass the address on, or you can try reunion sites that help you to get in touch with old friends from school, college, work, the forces or any other groups that you might have belonged to. For that to work though, your friend has...