Can I send a message to another WordPress.com user?

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  delysid23 · Member · Sep 19, 2007 at 10:45 pm

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  If I want to send a message to another WordPress.com user, is there an internal email/messaging system for intra-user contact, like one finds on Facebook and Myspace, to name a couple? Or do I go to the User Profile and hope to find an external email address? I’m talking about a message other than a comment on a post, where one would obviously simply comment in the usual fashion.

  Also, is “user” the term used in the FAQ & other Support documentation, and presumably Forums, for fellow WordPress.com bloggers? Most relevantly, is “user” the term I’d use if I were searching the FAQ or Forums with such a question as the one I’m asking here? I tried searching for “send message to another user” and found nada.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Sep 19, 2007 at 10:49 pm

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  There is no internal mailing service of any kind at wordpress.com. If the blogger chooses to post an email address for their reader’s use then you can use it. If they have a contact form you can use it. If they have the meebo widget up then you can register and use it for messanging. And, if not, then you are out of luck.

  Also note that wordpress.com bloggers have the choice of making their blogs “private” and password protected. And we do have the choice of not completing a profile at all.

  The email addresses we register with wordpress.com with are available to the wp.com blogger who receives the comment every time we leave a comment. Consequently, many of us have “throw-away” email addresses that are only for our blogs.

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  delysid23 · Member · Sep 19, 2007 at 11:21 pm

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  Interesting. Thanks again helpful thistimethisspace member. Hey, maybe that’s the term I was searching for — not user or blogger but “member”.

  So a wp.com blog can be set up by its owner to be highly interactive, with a contact form and functional public email address displayed; or almost totally non-interactive yet public, akin to a paper publication almost, with no way to contact the author or comment on content; or various gradations between the two extremes. All this referring to public blogs, of course. Private blogs are another matter.

  Much finer and more flexible control than is the case with less bloggy, more social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Stumbleupon, and other such, where joining up means accepting certain mandatory contact & interaction mechanisms. Or more commonly, and I realize now why I expected internal messaging as a standard feature, it’s what one finds almost universally on website discussion forums, where to participate one must register, and then one can message other forum members directly if so desired.

  But wp.com blogs are neither social networking sites nor discussion forums, but something else — something bloggy. Very cool. Thanks again.