Someone asked for the contact address of a friend yesterday as they wanted to talk to him about his new company. After a few minutes searching I realised that I knew where his office was, and his phone number – but the only other ways I’d talked to him were in person, on Twitter and inside Facebook.
Happily, his fb chat popped up on Adium which I had on in the background, so I requisitioned his email address and forwarded it to the gentlemen in question – who had no interest in Twitter, although he might well have a Facebook profile. It simply didn’t occur to me to ask.
After I’d done that, I had some lunch.
I might email the bloke and ask how they got on. I have all his contact details on the card he gave me when we first met at an event I was talking at. I hope they manage to talk to each other.