This is an excellent time to point out the private messaging feature!  

If you look up at the top right of your screen, you see something that says Hey, JulesDoug, you have 0 messages.  If you click on it, it takes you to your private message inbox.  You can send private messages to people by their user name, it works really well for off topic, or private type posts.   A really nice feature that we didn't have before!