You Probably Use Gmail Now

[Bara_no_Hime]

I've got a Yahoo account AND a G-mail account.

Yahoo for casual, G-Mail for Work.

And my work e-mail forwards everything to G-mail, because I hate my work e-mail.

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

Actually, I deleted my Gmail (and all Google accounts) and switched to GMX a month or two ago. Why? I like my things to be compartmentalized. I want my email to just be my email. But then they tied Gmail accounts to Youtube accounts, while also putting you in Google plus (I discovered I mysteriously had a Google plus account when I was trying to figure out how to separate my Youtube and Gmail) without asking you. No. I don't like the direction they are going in, so I deleted my Google accounts and went somewhere where my email can just be my email.

Still using two hotmail accounts since 2004 and I've been happy since using them.

On the other hand while I am happy with G+ (I use it daily and formed quite a lot of friends since it started last year) I'm not exactly happy they linked G+,Gmail and YT all together because a friend of mine got the domino effect when his G+ got suspended and then banned he was locked and cut off from using all 3 services his email was tied it which is why I'll always use a different email service like Hotmail.

Also I'm not a huge fan of trying everything together as one since it's much easier to get locked out of using all services when they all act as one.

Wait really? I got banned from youtube on my main gmail account yet I can use G+ and gmail with no problem

 

[Dirty Apple]

It's very straight forward. I have a hotmail account that's handed out to websites and "free" giveaways. If they wanna spam that one they can go right ahead. My gmail account is for seriously serious stuff like banks, government, and professionals.

Besides, just like everyone else, younger me chose a rediculous hotmail address. It was funny when I was 18, but embarrasssing in polite company now.

 

[devotedsniper]

I use outlook (it was hotmail) as my main accounts for years now, i also have a uni one and then my gmail is purely for my android phone. I wonder how many of those accounts are for android phones and aren't actually used for anything else.

 

[Vyress]

Never saw a reason to switch from GMX.

Second that. I use GMX and hotmail and have no problems at all. And I don't get the youtube account thing with gmail cause I'm on youtube with my gmx account and I can still log in to this day with it and it works perfectly. Also, GMX sounds cooler.

 

[omega 616]

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

This.

It's the only reason i made a Gmail account. Even though i had a Youtube account for YEARS, I was pretty pissed when one day - Youtube wouldn't let me sign into my profile until I created a Gmail account. Not even a 'Remind me later' option, just a big fat NOPE until I made one. Assholes.

I'm in the same boat.

Guess it's a great way to boost your numbers, force people to sign up ... then proclaim "I are the greatest!".

For that very reason I never email nor read any emails from it. You may use me to boost your worthless epeen but I won't use your service.

 

[bossfight1]

Simple to use, integrated into YouTube, text editor is right at the top, everything an email service should be. And I love it.

 

[crazyrabbits]

I've been using it, almost exclusively, since 2005. My original account (crazyrabbits) was part of the beta test, and I still keep it for odds and ends related to past friends and interesting mailing lists. My current account has been in use for 3 years, and pipes in messages from my work e-mail. The conversation feature has been a godsend for when I need to look up information quickly, and I have everything indexed, going back 3 years.

I love it.

 

[Andrew_C]

Dunno why people complain about the spam in HotMail. I basically use HotMail as a spam-trap address and I get no more spam there than any of my other webmail accounts

 

[Andrew_C]

One of the reasons I shun hotmail is that on my forum I have to manually activate a lot of new users who registered with the service. The activation link never shows up (yes I told them to look in the spam folder as well). I advised them to use Gmail, and problem solved. Only in a few cases did hotmail work. What the reason is remains a mystery.

2 possible reasons:
1) Your average Hotmail user is technically illiterate and doesn't understand what a spam folder is (most likely).
3) Your domain or your hosting provider has been blacklisted for spam so everything goes straight to /dev/null/ . But as I assume this only happens to confirmation emails, I would say 1 is the most likely.