I haven't had that much luck. I lost contact with many friends of mine over the years. Many with email accounts that now bounce, and they never gave me the new ones. They may be trying to email to old accounts of mine, found on Google, which I no longer use becuase the ISP went down, or I switched ISPs. I did email them my new address, but they may have lost it or misplaced it. Also some like usa.net require that I pay them a large sum of money to keep the account active.

But somewhere, in Google, must me my current email address. Maybe one day they will find it, or I will find theirs?

One friend, Chris Roys, I have been trying to reach for years now since a friend of ours died. I tried to stay in touch with him, but his work and home email addresses just bounce now. I only have his Hotmail account, which took and didn't bounce, but he may not be reading it. I even still have his old PGP Public key. I must have like a dozen friends like him, which just vanished off the face of the Earth in the past four years or more.

But they allow you to post on forums as a member. As a non-paying member you cannot even do that, but you can read them. It gives you a place to talk about your high school, work, college, etc. Even meet some people you knew in the military. Problem is that not everyone uses it and they spam the heck out of you if you do use it.

I was giving my experience in it, saying that in some cases it is useful, but in others it is not so useful.

Or maybe you would have me say something else?

then turn down your hearing aids.