Why do people hide their email address and how to find them?

 Why do people hide their email Address and how to find them?

There are some people who blog, tweet, update statuses in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or other social networks and stamp their presence everywhere except give out their email address. I am sure you have come across such people. Why do they do so, I wonder.

They want to be seen spreading their knowledge / experience but they make it difficult to be reached via email. One reason could be that they do not want to fall into the hands of spammers and hackers. Hackers could send phishing mail duping you into sharing some sensitive unwittingly. Spammers will fill your Inbox with unmanageable number of unsolicited messages. Such careful people may not be IT savvy to avoid or filter spam effectively.

Or people may consider themselves very busy and important that all and sundry should not write to them; they will entertain mail only from those to whom they have given the email address – sort of super-snobbish approach, I feel.

One such example is Dr Shreya P Trivedi based in New York, who is an expert in producing podcasts for training medical / healthcare staff. She has not revealed her email anywhere?

Librarians require scholarly articles and papers published in reputed journals. Nowadays contact email address may not be easily found in some cases.  They routinely search for email addresses. So do journalists, police, donation-seekers, credit card companies etc

How to track down email address of persons to establish a genuine contact? Here are a few useful tips:

You can lookup alumni database, staff listing, commercial directories, associations where they are members, their social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and similar sources.

In the case of Shreya, I got two of them, one professional and another personal after some efforts. During this phase, I learnt a lot about her and could even locate a photo here:

https://www.todayshospitalist.com/social-media-should-you-stop-lurking-and-log-on/

I got her two email addresses via Rocketreach.co However, you need to register yourself in Rocketreach site in order to search and fetch email address. IF you are not searching for contact details on a regular basis, it may not be worth registering at all.

Unfortunately, it took so long for me to track down Dr Shreya P Trivedi that when I got it, I forgot why I wanted it in the first place! That is not funny but true.