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anonymous
writes:HiWell my situation is quite simple and i just wondered if anyone had any insight.Someone who has been a good friend over the last few years has deactivated their facebook account and has apparently changed their account on a mobile messaging service we use as well and probably has no idea what my ID was, so can't re add me. So i now have no way to contact them at all and as they live in another country, i'd never talk to them again. Which obviously i don't want. We didn't talk every day but we would get in touch every couple of weeks and when i went to write to them i found their page was gone. They once told me their email address when i was helping them with something but we've never communicated in that way before.We don't have any mutual friends so I can't ask them however i know their facebook is just deactivated, it could be reactivated at any time and they are still on my friends list so i don't think it's anything personal. But at the same time if i was going to do something like that permanently i would try to keep contact with all of my friends in other ways.Should I email them? i don't want to seem creepy or anything and they probably don't even remember telling me their email address, maybe they just wanted to focus on something now and will reactivate facebook soon. I plan to wait a week or so and see if they come back online and if not then I'll email them and just say i'd like to keep in touch.Does that seem reasonable to you or should i do something else?Thanks!
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reader, Ciar  + ♥, writes (22 December 2014):
 rather than asking to specifically keep in touch, I'd send them something more open ended and this is the perfect time of year to do it. Wish them a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Then leave it at that.
That way the person has your contact information so they can reach you if they want to, but they aren't being cornered into promising to keep in touch.
How does that sound?
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