Email has made communication more available and convenient than at any other time in history. Keeping in touch with old friends has never been easier. Unfortunately, this does you no good if you don't know the email of the person with whom you want to communicate. Thankfully, there are places you can go to find out get in touch with that old friend, classmate or coworker you are looking for. Here's where to find an email address.
Web search
Try searching for the person's name in the major search engines first. The resulting pages may lead you to the person's email address. If they don't, try searching with as much information as you have about the person. If you know where the person lives, add it to your search. Adding the person's occupation may also produce a successful email search.
Company websites
While you may not find the person's email directly when you search his or her employer's website, you can often find enough information to guess. Many employers assign email addresses by name. For example, you may find an email address like firstname.lastname@company.com. If you know where the person works and you can find any person's email address on the company's website, you may find the address by replacing the person's name with the name of the person you seek.
Facebook is a social networking site that offers friends a platform to keep in touch. When you sign up for Facebook, you provide details about yourself. Facebook uses these details to attempt to match you with people you may know. It does this through your email address book, location and the school and employment history you provide. If the person you're looking for is on Facebook, you can get in touch with him or her and ask for an email address.
Pipl.com
Pipl.com searches the "deep web" for the people for whom you are looking. Since it searches sites that are excluded from the major search engines, it may provide hope if your searches have proven fruitless. Pipl.com returns information it finds in social networks, blog postings and other places throughout the web.
Previous emails
If you've corresponded with this person before, but you no longer remember an email address, you may still have old emails from him or her that contain an email address. Also check your sent messages. You may have the email address stored in the address book of an old email account or in emails you've saved on your computer.
