What do you use for personal email?
 

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[QUOTE=DaFace;9181044]Purely curious. Poll says it all.[/QUOTE]

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Curse anyone who uses their work email for personal business.

I'm mostly curious to see how many people use an ISP-provided email address. I realized today that I don't know anyone my age that still uses one, but a lot of my extended family still does.

Indeed. I'm sure many do, though.

msn.com

I'm slowly moving away from my ISP provided address.

Did that a few years ago solely because it makes changing providers a bitch...

Yep, that's my thought as well.

That's almost unimaginable to me. I moved from an ISP account to a Yahoo account about a decade ago. After changing ISP's a couple times in college, it just wasn't worth dealing with switching every time anymore.

Over time, Yahoo's spam filtering and crappy UI caused me to move over to Gmail, and I'm not sure that'll ever change unless Google majorly screws something up.

I have used GMAIL for years.

I should go check my old Hotmail account to see if that Nigerian prince needs more info.

Wow, I much prefer the yahoo UI to Gmail. I am slowly moving away from using Google for anything, including searches. Not fond of format and layout changes - moving features I use all the time - so that they can bombard me with even more advertising.

I've had the same ISP for 13 years.

I've had a yahoo account since 1997. It's unusable at this point due to the volume of spam it receives.

this

i have a few ... some for dicey spam situations, some for registration and some for online purchases etc.

keeping them separate acts as sort a firewall for my personal information.

I use Gmail for everything. Love the layout. Hated Yahoo because of the ridiculous amount of spam they have.

Yep.

I have had the same Yahoo account for 12 years and don't get overwhelmed with spam. It's because I have other accounts that I use for questionable, risky, or temporary stuff. They're like spam honeypots.

Yahoo and Gmail

ISP and gmail. Next time I change my ISP it will be gmail only.

isp, mostly
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Live, Yahoo, Hotmail, and a work acct.

Yahoo...Have had the same email addy for like 11 years now.

Voted for work and yahoo, then I saw it said personal, and therefore you can disregard 1 work e-mail vote.
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Hotmail...

I used to use yahoo for years after switching from aol, then last year I got an android and signed up for a gmail account and now I've completely switched all use to that account.

I think with the advances in Gmail and Yahoo, and the mobile device explosion, those Gmail and Yahoo options make more sense than ever. Plus, service provider hopping is becoming more common, so that plays into it too.. I use both Gmail and Yahoo, and I even have my legacy ISP email that I still check at home...

I still use the same email address from AOL that I used back in the mid 90s. Needless to say, I no longer subscribe to AOL. The address is just an address and I see no need to change. It works fine with Outlook and K9 so it's fine for me.

That's awesome! Do you still use the "You've Got Mail" notification?

No, I've used outlook for the last 10 years.

I have a Hotmail address that I have had since the Spring of '97. It's like a spam shitstorm in there.

gmail because of security

Ya, I do not. Have not in more than a decade. Like others, I have been using gmail/yahoo over the years for personal mail.

That's so weird, because my email is chiefsfan83@broncosfanforum.com

I really use gmail. It's great

gmail for forums and registering for public stuff. my isp for my personal correspondence.

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I have an ISP e mail. I've only received a couple e mails ever, and I have actually never sent one. Not once
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Same deal here. I finally abandoned it because trying to route it to the spam folder was like trying to stop the titanic from sinking by plugging the hole with my finger.

I've used gmail since it was invite only...before that, AOL

I still use my old AOL account most of the time. I also have a couple junk gmail accounts that I use for craigslist and when I need to mult up after getting banned at other forums.

Yup. I use it to sign up for things now. It's probably my e-mail address here.

Hah. It is.

I use gmail for personal and family email, hotmail for online purchase and game account emails and outlook for work.

OG AOL

I use hotmail for almost everything, but I refuse to put my hotmail account on any sort of application/resume or important thing. For that I use gmail. For some reason I just feel like hotmail is not a "serious" email. Anyone else feel that way?

Have used hotmail since the late 90s as my personal one. Got lucky and have my actual name as it. I use it for my main personal email. I got several gmail accounts I use for registrations and other crap.

I have no idea why, but yes. I definitely feel like Gmail is a more respectable provider.

Why aren't you sure if I'm serious? I don't have the AOL service and I don't use the web interface. I've just kept that same address. Nowdays I do most of my email through my phone with K9. I've used Outlook on my PC since 2002 when I got it for free from school.

Started with hotmail as my personal account in the 90s & never had a reason to quit using it.... It being my name has been a huge benefit.

I assume I still have a gmail/yahoo account, but can't remember the last time I used it. I also have a pair of business emails, but run them remotely through my hotmail account 90% of the time.

not sure, how would you feel about going on a date to talk this over?

I like my ISP account, but my others are the same except for the extension so it's kind of a wash. If I have to change ISP's though I'll go all in with Gmail. I like it better than Yahoo and never liked Hotmail.

if I wanted to use Microsoft I'd use live.com rather than hotmail.com anyways.

Gmail. For both personal, and work. Separate accounts.

Way back in the day, I had hotmail. That's purely a spam account now. I used yahoo for forever, but it's becoming a mix of actual mail I care about and spam stuff. Currently using gmail.

I'm finding having to spell my non name related email more and more frustrating though. It's too much of a pain to create a completely new one.

yeah I wish I would have ahead of the curve when I was 19 and went with first.lastname@gmail.com instead of mynickname+favoritenumber+birthyear@gmail.com but at this point it would be too much of a hassle to change my email

It's definitely nice. I signed up back in the old invite only days and instantly opened accounts with like 5 different names I might like to use just to make sure I had the option. :)

I think I've turned loose of hem all now, but who knows.

Hotmail

I wish I had that sort of foresight, sadly when I was 19 all of my usernames were Hootie2485 no matter where I went or where I signed up...so I'm stuck with it on GMAIL. It hasn't really hindered me much, but it is kind of embarrassing on my resume.

Can you just not find anything close to your real name you could use? If you're actually using that on your resume...stop. I'd almost instantly pass on a resume with a name like that on it.

Damn man, it's not that hard to come up with something more professional. I know dozens of people who have been declined follow up interviews for something as small as a ****ed up email address.

well I landed the job I really, really wanted two months ago...so hopefully I'll never have to bust out my resume again...and now I have a corporate email as well

but yeah, perhaps if I ever have another go around I'll register a new email to handle all job inquiries...never really even thought about it

I was pretty new to the whole resume game this time around, really stumbled into a good career so hopefully I don't **** it up

I've been with gmail since beta. Which is how I have multiple 6 digit accounts, including my own...

If I had to post a resume today I would definately creat a new email strictly for that. It shouldn't matter, but it does like people have mentioned.

I'm not a Hootie & the Blowfish fan...it's basically my last name. I think people get confused, but perhaps since my name is on my resume my email makes a little more sense in case they wondered.

If it resembles your last name then I think you are fine and why you haven't had any issues thus far. Mine has nothing to do with my name, so I would change mine.

I setup an account a long time ago to distribute VPN clients to users that weren't on the corporate email platform of my previous employer.

Since I'm a network engineer, and that email address pretty obviously is for distribution of VPNs, I use it on my resume. I've also spent considerable time doing Internet forensics and abuse - I never use my real name for stuff like that.

No, that's silly.

Neither is more professional, or unprofessional, than the other.

Silly.

I love it when dorks put their own personal domain e-mail address on their resume.

They're the same. The domain suffix is all that is different. Hotmail IS Live.com. It's all been migrated to the same platform.

I know I wouldn't hire saul@badguy.com. :D

I'm shocked by te number of students who still use emails like "babygrrrl420@yahoo.com" as their official contact email. Of course, I'm also shocked at the number of teens who don't really use/check their email with any regularity.

****. No wonder I'm not getting any responses. I guess Mr.Flopnuts@gmail.com doesn't seem professional enough.

custom domain email thru godaddy

Email is SO 20th century dude. It's SOOOOOO SLLLLOOWWWWW.

Are you on Facebook and Twitter? :D

The difference between email and social networks is the difference between PCs and tablets when it comes to productivity.

I keep trying to tell my students (mind you, these are kids taking a college level class in high school) that they MUST check their email daily. I can't tell you how many times they send me something in email, I reply to them that I received it, then I see them two days later and they say, "Hey, did you get that assignment I sent you?"

Uhhh, yes. I sent you an email immediately. That means you haven't checked your email in 2 days since you sent the assignment. Awesome.

Meanwhile, they know every single time some dipshit comments on their instagram or Bob tweets what he ate for breakfast.

Google is taking over your lives.