Someone tried to make me feel old today, because I have, and regularly use an @hotmail.com email address. And I’m not afraid to use it. Are @yahoo.com or even @aol.com email addresses still out there?
I retorted to the young whippersnapper that last weekend, I completed my 45 ‘Birthday Burpee Challenge’ unbroken, and that he was, in fact, on my lawn.
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I composed this with WordStar. I’m not old. . .
Jeez, grandpa, nobody uses email now.
(When impersonating a young person, it’s always better to comment on what we don’t use now, since I have no idea what we do use now. Instagram? WhatsApp? Is Snapchat still a thing?)
Last call center gig, I saw AOL or Yahoo more frequently than I did Hotmail, TBH.
I access my hotmail account through my gmail account, thus hiding my true age.
AOL here. I do have it tied to my gmail account so I only have to use 1 account. I stopped using yahoo when there was a breach a long time ago.
My younger friends seem to chat on Discord.
My mother has a Rocketmail address. It was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997. New Rocketmail addresses haven’t been available to sign up for since 2013. Mom had one of the originals.
actually, yahoo used to be popular because at one time it didn’t require a cell phone to set one up when AOL did … ironically Verizon owns Yahoo and AOL now … but I have 2 yahoo accounts and 2 Gmail accounts or did have at one time
I still blog on LiveJournal, does that count?
So does my sister, every day. She keeps it restricted to immediate family members. It’s a great way to feel connected to what’s going on in her life.
I still have an AOL address, which I’ve had since 1994 or 1995. It’s kind of a point of weird pride at this point.
That said, I increasingly use my Gmail address, especially for any new things that I sign up for. At some point, I’m just going to have my AOL mail auto-forwarded to Gmail.
OTOH, my wife fully intends to keep AOL as her email address until the day she dies. She hates having any sort of change forced on her by computer software, and if AOL ever finally goes toes-up, she will be very unhappy, indeed.
The biggest advantage of gmail (or using your own domain hosted by Google) is that the spam filtering is almost infallible. Maybe others have caught up, but it’s uncanny how good it is.
I still use a hotmail address for the “you must give us an email address for your one free article” paywalled sites. Never check it unless I am told I need to enter a confirmation code that was sent to me.
I use a yahoo address for signing up for mailing lists where I feel there is a good chance of spam. Strangely, every email I get there is something for which I signed up. As far as I can tell, nobody has sold my address yet.
I use Yahoo for email.
When I log out, browse their website for a few minutes, to look at photographs of celebrities in bikinis. I figure that is my contribution to keeping them financially solvent.
AOL and AOL only.
I have two AOL accounts, along with a few Gmail accounts. One Gmail account is my “regular” one, with the others used for specific job-related purposes (one for acting, one for radio).
The main reason for keeping AOL is to have an email address to give when I sign up for things … in fact, I have it labeled as my “spam” email.
All my accounts are quickly accessible from my Mail app on my phone and iPad, so it’s a snap to keep them all sorted. I am also irrationally proud to still hold on to an AOL account.
I’m using AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail (which is now Outlook), and Gmail, and a few others. I don’t see what’s wrong with any of those. So what if they’re old? New does not automatically equal better.
If you wait long enough, it will be retro cool to have those email addresses. Like writing with a quill pen and inkwell.
I have email accounts on Yahoo and Hotmail and I still use them (mostly to communicate with friends and family). Everything forwards to my Gmail account, which I consider my “real” email address.
There’s no reason for me to tell people to stop using those old addresses; they still work!
I’ve had the same Compuserve mailbox (wasn’t that what they used to call it?) since 1994. It’s technically AOL now but it still uses the cs.com ending. You don’t get better than two letters. Never seen a single letter domain for email though I know some exist. And yes, it does everything I want, has a good interface, and filters out all the spam.
I have a gmail account and others for various reasons. Yet I still use what I feel comfortable with. Always will.