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Does your personal email suffix say something about you?

Well, I guess everyone has their own experience, but my Y! account is always inundated with spam and bots messaging me over their chat program. I also notice that there seems to be a much higher delivery failure rate for Y! vs gmail.

MrIncredible, that headline is clickbait. Everyone knows that Google serves ads based on your email content and if you can't handle that, don't use the service. I will heartily concede that the gmail team has been a bit hamfisted about the UI changes and ugly icons.
 
mercurial said:
It's by far the most popular email service on the internet, with over 600M users. Maybe because the spam filtering actually works? :dunno

I don't really care about plugging any company on BARF, I'm not trying to convert anyone. Using gmail doesn't mean you're brilliant, but it does suggest that you were at least savvy enough to choose the best email provider. It's like the internet equivalent of a high school diploma.
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They allow known scammers to advertise within gmail and they don't care about it. They kinda suck in that regard.
 
shit, we still have an old prodigy.net address :facepalm
 
gmail for "official business" and an old yahoo for all my coupons and bullshit.

Anything not keeping up with the times, I can see as kind of out-of-touch with current technology trends but hey, good on you for keeping that account in order. I've jumped a few email account ships in my day.
 
mercurial said:
using gmail shows that, by and large, you basically "get" this internet thing. But I still use all three; gmail for real email, yahoo for companies who i know might spam me, but i might want to hear from, hotmail as a dummy/registration account to setup accounts with companies I never want to talk to, ever.

I heard the other day about someone who still had a prodigy.net email address. I wish I had one still!
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Same roll I go through.

Gmail for Applications (jobs), and the shit I wanna keep up on Friends, Websites (non spam).
Comcast, for shit I can go either way on. Friends, Websites.
Yahoo for account creations, and change password on those sites. Then BURN the reg mail incase Yahoo gets hacked AGAIN.
Hotmail for reg on places I could give to shits about. Then change password and burn that info, incase Hotmail gets hacked AGAIN.

Hadn't logged into my hotmail account in 3 years. 157,023 messages. :rofl
 
I use (firstname)@(lastname).org for a lot of stuff, as it's recognizable and my father has had the domain since the mid 90s or so.
 
since the past 3 or so years, i've always thought that anyone on Yahoo.com has a lot of internet to learn about and is generally way behind the times.

aol.com? jesus fuck i would just straight off consider themselves an idiot. resume would go right in the trash can for that offense

prodigy would get madd retro style points tho

hotmail is kinda trendy now, for whatever reason. i'd say its pretty neutral
 
i liked the old, old yahoo mail, i dislike the latest yahoo mail the most. it just keeps getting worse. for whatever reason, i hate a dynamic page when reading mail.

don't really like the gmail UI.

but i'm weird. i like simple. fast. a static over dynamic page for reading mail.

i liked the really old google search page. that was perfect.

i didn't like when they added dynamic asynchronous javascript calls to update content in real time mainly because it didn't add any major benefit that was useful.

when a website first comes out i think it's the greatest thing, but then they keep adding these incremental features or making minor design changes which is supposed to be better, but it's not giving me anything i wanted. and after a few years of these small "improvements", it becomes heavy, bloated, overly-featured, instead of the lean, mean, single purposed application it was originally designed to be.
 
Ok, who agrees with me on this one. If you get an email from someone.aol you automatically know the sender is 65 or older.
 
Im an internet retard. I've only ever used gmail and outlook. I hate gmail. Am I the only one that doesn't know how to sort in gmail?

Outlook kicks ass.
 
Job applications and freelance work-related stuff: Gmail

For people I want to avoid: a Yahoo account that I only check when I get really bored

Everything else: a 15-year-old Yahoo account (not the one listed above) because I'm too lazy to change my address

I'm considering getting an account from my college alumni association to use when I'm feeling hoity-toity. :laughing
 
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