You Probably Use Gmail Now

[Darth Sea Bass]

I was a hotmail user now that account is mainly for mmo phishing emails. :/

 

[game-lover]

I do have Gmail. But it's only one out of four email addresses. I have one with each main email service. Yahoo, Aol, Msn and Gmail.

Needed a job one as advice said I should have one more professional. As opposed to stuff such as mangagirl and the like.

 

[Mumorpuger]

I use Gmail exclusively when I'm signing up for something that requires an email, and I'm almost certain it will end up sending me spam.

.. So yeah. I guess Gmail is my spam email bucket.

 

[Yopaz]

I do in fact have 3 email accounts.

I have a Yahoo account which I use for when I register to online forums or internet stores. Most of my email there is advertisement that recommends products I may be interested in and for the most part I am interested in those products and I do read those emails so I love that account. It helps me buy presents and it helps me determine what I want when someone's buying me something (I can never decide).

I have my hotmail account which is just random spam and sites that I registered to without knowing if I trusted them or not, or in some cases when my yahoo address didn't work.

My Gmail account is limited to personal email, bills, stuff from the university (I linked my university account to my Gmail so I get it both places) and bank stuff.

Now I prefer Gmail for its looks and I like the new layout they have come up with, so it's all up to taste.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Still on hotmail, as I use a program to check all three of my email addresses.

 

[The Last Nomad]

This happens the same time as I start finally using Gmail instead of Hotmail?

Coincidence? I hope not...

 

[CardinalPiggles]

It's just for Emails.

It's like arguing who's mouse mat is better.

 

[The Great JT]

I use them for my professional email.

 

[sethisjimmy]

Not surprising considering they force people to sign up for one when using unrelated products like Android or YouTube.
I made one a while ago just to sign up for shit like that but I never check it.

 

[Pebkio]

I was one of those people who got into Gmail back in 2004. Because someone walked into the IT department in Job Corps with an account and invites. That means Gmail because the unofficial official email for us Cisco kids.

And we all loved it because it was bigger and better than anyone else. I remember an often repeated question being: "You mean we EACH get a gigabyte?".

 

[Da Orky Man]

I currently run email addresses on Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail, so ha!, I say, have!

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Yahooooooooo...

Or is it y7mail now? But either way, sort of inevitable considering how the browsers have gone.

 

[halobolola]

I swear i have 3 google accounts, of which none i actually use. they all get sent to my hotmail account.
I have never made one, i have just been given them, my uni and my school have gave me an email, that has been google.
Seeing how that is thousands per year, assuming it is accross the UK, then no wonder they have gained so many users.

Also i have only ever had 2 spam emails in 8/9 years, and that was my own fault, of signing in when i had a virus on my pc, other than that i never had a single one.
I'm even an IE user.

 

[1337mokro]

Wait people use Outlook?

Since when? I always thought that was this weird useless app that never worked and asked you every time you started it to "configure it" for some reason even if you indulged it and actually did configure it once.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

I've been using Gmail for a few years now, and it's solid. I don't get much spam, it's a clean look and I don't have many issues with it. I even switched my mom to Gmail a few months ago since our email provided from the cable company sucks so hardcore.

 

[Formica Archonis]

I've got several accounts on Hotmail I never use. One on GMail I never use (except recently). A few more here and there....

And forty on a server I pay for, about a quarter of which see daily use. Because being able to generate addresses on a whim is handy as hell.

Though recently gmail came in handy when some idiot at Earthlink started keyword* blocking my stuff to people using Earthlink addresses and I had to send everything through gmail's SMTP server to get around it. Which I ended ASAP because Google knows enough about me already.

(* After much experimentation I found anything relating to piracy and porn was censored. Including "wares" and "box". Seriously. Box. Because that word HAS NO USE IN NORMAL CONTEXT.)

 

[Aedes]

Pfff, I was using it before it was cool.
*puts on hipster glasses*

...ok, lies. I use it since 2006. Had yahoo before but once I switched, never looked back. It's my serious email while yahoo is now my 'don't-wanna-use-my-serious-email-for-this' email.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Gmail...? Oh, you mean the email address I use for shit I don't want flooding my yahoo (read: main) email!

I thought that too, after I got my GMail invite. Then I realized that it had a better spam filter, and a cleaner layout.

Now my yahoo is my verify login creation account, then over to G-Mail for the real deal.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I use both. However, Hotmail tends to be for signing up for random junk or game forums, while Gmail is for more "serious", personal use.

 

[Saulkar]

This is probably in part due to them forcing people who want to make a youtube account also make a gmail account to register.

Ditto. I was so pissed about that, that I created a thread on the Escapist asking if this was justified or just plain wrong. The basic response at the time was uniformly nut up or shut up.