website, you'll see that the second part of their email address uses part of their website address.
This gives a standard formula for all email addresses which will look something like firstname.surname@somewhere.com.au or yournickname@somewhere.com.au
Some people have two or more email addresses, one just to give to friends and family, one for a work or student email account, and sometimes another email address that can just be used to give to people you don't know—like when you sign up for email newsletters or for communicating with online businesses you don't know.
Using email
All email accounts have the same basic features.
They will have an 'inbox' for the emails you've received. There will also be a 'sent' items folder where the emails that you've sent to other people can be saved.
And there will be an 'address book' or contacts list where you can save other people's email addresses.
Sending emails
From the inbox, you can create new emails to send to people. Creating a new email might be called 'compose', 'create', or 'new email'.
To send an email, you type the email address or email addresses into the 'to' field. There is usually also a 'cc' field and a 'bcc' field showing that you can use to send copies of this email to other people.
In the subject field, you usually tell the other person what the email is about and then write the email in the body field. You can also attach files to emails including photos and documents.
When you click send, the email is sent to the other person's email account over the internet. They'll get your email the next time they log into their account.
If the email didn't reach the other person, you'll usually get an automated email telling you that the email was undeliverable.
This could be because the email address was spelled incorrectly, you accidently included spaces, or sometimes it's because the other person's inbox is full and can't receive any more emails until they delete some emails to make space for new ones.