How Many E-Mail Accounts Do You Have...
By twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
United States
October 24, 2007 6:12am CST
Ok, I'm wondering...How many e-mail accounts do you have? If you have more than 1, why and what do you use them for?
I'll confess I have several. I have 1 yahoo account for my yahoo messenger and yahoo groups that I'm in and I have 5 (hangs head in shame LOL), yes 5, gmail accounts. I have 1 for regular mail and a cross stitch group that I'm in, 1 that is just for cooking groups I'm in, 1 that is just for simplified living groups that I'm in, 1 that is for all my tag groups that I'm in (the tags all get forwarded to Incredimail) and 1 that is just for MyLot stuff.
Thank God, for Roboform or I'd never keep up with the id's and passwords (yes, I keep them written down too). Believe it or not I find it easier to handle things when I'm more organized.
When I first started on the internet 7 years ago, I made the mistake (at least it was for me) of using my first and last name as my id for several email accounts and id's for different sites. I've been working the last couple of days of getting the places that are listed in my full name cleared out and deleted and going with a nickname or such like I do here.
So, what about you?
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66 responses
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have two yahoo accounts..One for surveys and one for everything else..Any more than that and I think I would be lost...LOL...
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have way too many to keep up with. Time to purge them and let them go stale. I am too busy to keep everything in order.
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have 5 email accounts that I'm aware of. lol 1 is my hotmail account that I'm gonna let go since I don't talk to anyone on msn messenger. I have 1 email account that came with my isp I never use. I have 2 yahoo accounts, 1 of which I'm letting go as well.
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have 4 email accounts. I use one for my family and friends. I use the other 3 for different GPT sites that I belong to.
I use the same password for all of my accounts so I don't have to worry about what password goes to which account.
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@ailema4ever (2668)
• Finland
24 Oct 07
My current active email accounts? There are only two. One is my regular email address I use only for close friends and the other, my yahoo account is for blogging and other stuff. ;-D
@heartonfire (4119)
• Denmark
24 Oct 07
well...do u mean how many i have in total or how many i usually use?..
cause i have like 6 yahoo adresses and 2 hotmail ones..but as i don't like msn at all,first time i forgot the password to my first adress,so i created another one which i don't use.
and on yahoo,i have 3 old ones,and 3 that i currently use.
one is for friends,one for work and another one that i don't quite use anymore but there is a guy there that i talk to from time to time,who i don't wanna add in my daily adress,so i open the other adress when i wanna talk to him..
but i have multi messenger so i can handle them all:)
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@Skittlez352 (216)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I only have one. I remember I used to have a lot more, like three - AOL, MSN, and Yahoo. Now I only hae Yahoo. it's so much easier! What was I thinking before?
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Well, I have the one fom my ISP thatI quit using because it got hundreds of spam e-mails every day, I have my yahoo one for sending e-mails and for all my group and mylot notifications, then I guess you could count my myspace inbox since I use that for keeping in touch with people I went to school with.
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@BlueStarMom1 (931)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I also have several e-mail accounts. I use one for business, one for friends and relative, 2 for my book selling business and one for things like mylots.
I find it much easier to keep things straight by having them in separate accounts. That way when I log in to one of them I can just deal with those things and not have to go through and sort.
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@midnightwaltz (34)
• Philippines
24 Oct 07
I currently have 4 email accounts. 2 Yahoo, 1 Hotmail and 1 Gmail. Each one has different uses. Like one yahoo account is for school related stuff and the other Yahoo account is for the communities I am a part of like Friendster, myLot, myspace and the like. My hotmail account is for my hish school friends while my gmail is for important software registrations.
I only have one account that contains my first and last name. I made one so that it is easier for my classmates and professors to email me.
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@North_Atlantic (126)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have two e-mail accounts. I use one for my college and the other one just as a personal account. Although I can definitely see why some people may want to have several accounts, just having two is enough for me. On a side note, if you have an Apple, you can use a program called "Keychain" to keep all of your usernames and passwords organized for everything.
@cheongyc (5072)
• Malaysia
24 Oct 07
I have 3 emails accounts. The primary one is my company email, which is active and is in use in my daily communication with friends and colleagues. My secondary email is my yahoo email, which I use to subcribe to some exciting website, and ofcourse, Yahoo Messenger. Besides, my friend keep in touch with me using the Yahoo Email, especially those friends who are not updated with my latest company email. I am working with second company after I quited from the first one since 3 years back. Beside these 2 email accounts, I still keep the legacy one which is the hotmail account LoL. It's my very first email accounts since I start using internet. Nowadays I had switched all my contacts to Yahoo or company email because the hotmail account is infested with all disgusting spam and junk emails.
@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have 3 yahoo's, 1 AOL, 1 Gmail, 1 MSN, and then I have one through a home business through the company. I all depends on what site or what I am doing for which email I use. I use my real name on my eamil address but I always use a username for any site that I join or am with.
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@slickcut (8141)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have two e-mail accounts...The reason being i have one friend of mine that lives out of town and she can get my e-mail when i send it to her but she can never send me e-mail and i get it.So i opened another e-mail account to see if i could get her e-mails and it worked.So i use my primary e-mail for everyone except my friend.I have that e-mail set aside just for her...I do not know why she can not send me e-mail and me get it, but she cannot ,and we have tried all kinds of things,checking to see if it was the right e-mail etc..so i had to open another one...
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@carolscash (9492)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I have several email accounts and I use them for different things. some are used for just friends and family and others are used for different sites that I use to make money on here. Ialso have a business one at Quixtar that I use for just that site.
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@musicman6 (2406)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Well I only have Two e-mail accounts, one for my business mail, and one for my personal correspondence!
And I was wondering if other people had to write down all the usernames, and passwords and keep a list like I do, I'm glad I'm not the only one!
But I'm trying to figure out why not the first and last name situation!
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@Sharon38 (1912)
• Jamaica
24 Oct 07
I have two accounts- one for my personal emails and the other whihc is assigned by the Ministry. Boxes would have your correct names (full) along with the Ministry's email box a (just like @ yahoo.com). Anyone in the Minsitry can send an email instead of letters and memo.
