How long have you been using the same email address?

April 5, 2008 11:39am CST
Most people use more than one email address. Is there one email address you have had since you first started on the internet, or one you have used for a long time? It need not be the one you use most often, it could be one you keep for occasional use. I have had several different email addresses over the years but still use the same Yahoo email address I've had since I first registered with Yahoo, about 7 years ago. I used my old ISP email address much more before I changed provider. I am now using my old Yahoo email instead, so that is the one I have been using for the longest time.
26 people like this
97 responses
• India
20 Jun 08
To be honest, i have 6 email address in yahoo -- of which four are really active. 1 email address in rediff -- Active again 2 email address in gmail --- very rarely use. and 5 other address falling under various other groups, given by Companies and corporate offices, all of them are active.. So 6+1+2+5 = 14 email id's.. And these address i am using for long long time.. Take care friend.
2 people like this
• India
20 Jun 08
Thank you friend.. It is no problem for me in maitaining these id's..
1 person likes this
20 Jun 08
I don't think I would be able to manage so many active email accounts, but if you have had all of them a long time you must be used to it by now. You take care too.
1 person likes this
@dierdre (2207)
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
yup i am still using my very 1st yahoo address, i was only 15 yrs. old when i signed up for yahoo with that handle, so that email is now almost 8 yrs. old! too bad i dont really use that email for important notidications or registrations coz that email is spam infested, it was deactiveted many times when i failed to log in for 4 months or more, but still, everytime i re-activate it by logging in, the spam still keeps on coming!
2 people like this
@dierdre (2207)
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
oh most of the spam goes to the bulk folder but many still infiltrate the inbox! i wonder why i get to recieve mails when it is not my address that is in the recipient? maybe in in the BCC? and i get to receive around 100 spam every week.
2 people like this
28 Apr 08
Does the spam go into your inbox or to the bulk folder? I don't get much spam in my yahoo email now.
1 person likes this
@myliezl0903 (2726)
• Philippines
26 Jun 08
hi there! im using my email address for 5 years now and i would say that it is very helpful to have an email nowadays.,you can communicate to your friends around the world by sending a message thru email and i really really like it.,hope everything goes well with my email provider.,thanks! have a nice day ahead!
26 Jun 08
I like being able to send and receive emails too. Have a lovely day.
1 person likes this
@ruby222 (4847)
5 Apr 08
Iv used the same email address since i started!!..but thats more luck than anything else!!when i first started i made my email address..then i used to forget the passwords ...so i made more and more lol ..then i realised that i had the password to my original!! Like us all i find passwords are a total pain!!...lol..we have to have them of course!!..but now i have a combination of several..which seems to work well for me...if its not one passwaord its the other etc... But when i couldnt get the hang of it..i used to mail my family..and they would say...Why keep changing you email address???...i used to thin oh my lord...lol..they must think im bonkers!!!
2 people like this
5 Apr 08
I would find it very frustrating not to be able to read my email if I forgot the password.
@ruby222 (4847)
5 Apr 08
Frustrating isnt the word for it!!!!!
1 person likes this
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
5 Apr 08
I was still a pre teen when I registered my first email address and I think over that first year I registered atleast 6 more email addresses. As of recent I have one email address I made in '03 one I made in '05 and one that I have made only a few months ago. I hardly use the one I made in '03 and the one I made in '05 i check regularly but do not register anything under that email address as much as I do the most recently made email.
2 people like this
5 Apr 08
I never had as many as 6 at one time, I think 3 is quite enough.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
5 Apr 08
three addresses is quite enough but I was only a pre teen and freshly discovered the world of the internet. I don't think I could honestly keep up with more then three email addresses at one time.
1 person likes this
• India
20 Jun 08
I have been using the same email for years since I started using Yahoo mail. I have not got any problems yet and I don't expect problems with using same yahoo email for years.
2 people like this
20 Jun 08
I don't expect you will ever have a problem with Yahoo mail. I never had any problem.
1 person likes this
• United States
6 Apr 08
I have had more email addresses than I can count and don't use most of them. I do have one that I have had for about 7 or 8 years now, I believe. I use it more than any of the others because most of all my friends have it. It's too much trouble to change it and send an email out to everyone letting them know. Not to metion trying to set up the contact list again.
2 people like this
6 Apr 08
If you change email you also have to change it at all the websites where you have joined or are registered.
@horsesrule (1957)
• United States
6 Apr 08
I don't have the same email address now that I had when I first discovered the internet about ten years ago. Through the years, the prices of service have changed so much so I would try different companies so I don't change email addresses a lot but I have had several through the years. I've had the one that I have now for probably four years now. I really don't like changing often because then people have a hard time getting in touch with you cuz they'll lose your new email. It's happened to me several times.
2 people like this
7 Apr 08
If you use web based email you don't have to change email address if you get a new service provider.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
7 Apr 08
I still have the first e-mail address I got when I first got my computer and got online, the one I got from my ISP. I'm going to switch to cable internet, hopefully within a week or less, so I'm unsure what to do about changing my address. I guess there's nothing like the changes of address you file with the post office, is there? Annie
2 people like this
7 Apr 08
You may be able to copy or store your address book but you still need to login to every website where you are registered and change your account details. That's why so many people use web based email, then you don't have to change your address when you get a new service provider.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
6 Apr 08
Well, I have been using my hotmail address for almost ten years now. I registered with Yahoo around 1999 and that was my secondary email address, but gradually, I kept using Yahoo more and after my first Yahoo address got infiltrated in 2005, I made a new one and went from there. It's been that way ever since.
2 people like this
7 Apr 08
Hotmail and yahoo mail do seem to be the most popular email accounts.
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
6 Apr 08
I have used other emailaddresses since I began using the internet, paid2write, but I failed to keep up with them so I basically just use my Yahoo address for everything now. There are times, though, that I wish I'd kept up with the other addresses since my email is now growing at an enormous rate.
7 Apr 08
My email has also grown a lot since I joined myLot!
• Philippines
6 Apr 08
My e-mail address is the same since the first time I learned to use the e-mail. If I'm not mistaken, I have been using that since the early 90's. I have other e-mail addresses but i don't use it anymore for I have forgotten already the passwords.
7 Apr 08
You have used your original email account a long time, so you won't forget the password for that one.
• India
6 Apr 08
I have been using yahoomail for the 7 years.(this 7 year old mail i am useing becouse i upload many infomation on it like my college project, some pic's) recent i am using gmail, rediffmail, hotmail but i like yahoomail.
2 people like this
6 Apr 08
It's surprising how many people have been using yahoo mail for that amount of time.
@selece (2357)
• Philippines
19 Jun 08
I've been using the same email since high school. I think that would make it 6-7 years now. I have other email addresses but this one is my main account. it's hard maintaining a lot of email adds so focusing on one is my best option. ^^
2 people like this
19 Jun 08
Yes I think it would be difficult to have a lot of email addresses.
1 person likes this
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
6 Apr 08
I was the first to register my last name in yahoo as my email address, back then users are alloted only like 2MB of space so i would say more than 10 years, and its still my main email up to now. I also had a lot of addresses that come and go, but yahoo and me are deeply rooted.
6 Apr 08
You are a pioneer of Yahoo, well done!
@munhozmib (3837)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
5 Apr 08
Hello! I don't have too many e-mail adresses. I have one from Hotmail, which I have since I was around 10. In other words, for 5 years I have this e-mail. I had one for AOL, but now I don't have it anymore. I only use it to login at Orkut, but I cannot use it anymore. Cannot check the mailbox nor anything, since the account has been deleted. I have one for Terra, I don't know if you heard about this one. Terra is from Brazil. Actually, I have two e-mails, but I use mainly one. So, in short words: one from Terra and one from Hotmail. What do you think? Is it a lot? Nope, I guess. Respectfully, Munhozmib.
2 people like this
5 Apr 08
I have not heard of Terra, but I think if you keep using those two you can't go wrong.
@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
5 Apr 08
Yahoo is also my main e-mal address I have bben using this address for about 6 years. I too have several other e-mail addresss that I also use, including hotmail.
2 people like this
5 Apr 08
I have never used hotmail but I know it is very popular.
@gemini_rose (16264)
5 Apr 08
My email that I am on now is the only one I have had and I have had it for about 2 years, this is how long I have been on the internet for in total, so not long really compared to some. My hubby has had his even longer, think he has had his for about 4 years or more. We only have the two email addresses though .
2 people like this
6 Apr 08
That's still quite a long time to use one address.
@roxanne271 (2034)
• Trinidad And Tobago
6 Apr 08
I have more than one email address but I only use one main one which is a hotmail address I've had since 2005 . It isn't my first email address, it was my second one which I made about 2 years after my first one. I don;t use my first one at all anymore. I recently signed up for a new gmail addy even though I already had one and I have a yahoo one that is just crying for attention. I don't use it that often.
2 people like this
6 Apr 08
You have a nice selection of email addresses there.
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
5 Apr 08
Hi Paid2write! I too have used my same email addy for years..about 10 now..and i do have another for hotmail. I use the yahoo one the most and its connected to my store which i've had for 16 yrs. so i'd hate to change it now..the hotmail is for sites i belong to mainly. Thanks for asking!
2 people like this
5 Apr 08
Hi Rosekitty, 10 years is a long time, thanks for letting me know.