Post by irishbride2 on Dec 16, 2014 17:15:17 GMT -5
I live in a Google bubble
I was just surprised because not only is Google search huge but their other products like drive are as well. I am unfamiliar with the breadth of yahoos offerings.
I hired an ed tech this year who is in her 70s. She's the woman I wish I could be in my 70s. Reads novels, keeps up with current events, entertains friends, goes out with friends, has a vast professional network, (overshares) has an active sex life...
She wants high speed internet for herself and she wants to look up ideas for class at home. Her husband flat out refuses to switch from dial up. She tells me 'if you really need ideas for class projects or don't think I'm being as useful as I could be, I'll go home and fire up the gerbils, but I really don't want to.
Post by Melissa W. on Dec 16, 2014 23:48:05 GMT -5
I still have a yahoo account. The funny awful th in ng is that a title attorney *I think* out of the Carolinas has an email that is very close to mine and I get about one set of closing documents a week. I used to reply with a sorry wrong email note but now I just delete.
Confession: I still use my AOL email address (I have a gmail one I use for most things). And I still love hearing "you've got mail."
I might need to be World's Last AOL User on the next AE day.
I still have mine and I use it mainly for shopping deals and stuff like that. I also have gmail for my job hunt, yahoo for online dating and I might have an old hotmail account that I havent checked in ages.
Post by sparrowsong on Dec 17, 2014 0:06:25 GMT -5
My main account is still hotmail. It's the only one I have my firstnamelastname@hotmail.com. It's just so simple to tell people that. Plus I've had it since 97 or 98 or whatever, so it's a long history of random acquaintances I don't talk to all the time who have that as my contact info. If I'd managed to get a better gmail account, I would've switched over, but I just wasnt on the ball at that point.
My main account is still hotmail. It's the only one I have my firstnamelastname@hotmail.com. It's just so simple to tell people that. Plus I've had it since 97 or 98 or whatever, so it's a long history of random acquaintances I don't talk to all the time who have that as my contact info. If I'd managed to get a better gmail account, I would've switched over, but I just wasnt on the ball at that point.
This is me too (except my last name is my maiden name). I feel like my hotmail email is so much cleaner than anything I could get now. I don't want a string of random numbers or extra characters in my email address.
My main account is still hotmail. It's the only one I have my firstnamelastname@hotmail.com. It's just so simple to tell people that. Plus I've had it since 97 or 98 or whatever, so it's a long history of random acquaintances I don't talk to all the time who have that as my contact info. If I'd managed to get a better gmail account, I would've switched over, but I just wasnt on the ball at that point.
This is me too (except my last name is my maiden name). I feel like my hotmail email is so much cleaner than anything I could get now. I don't want a string of random numbers or extra characters in my email address.
One of my (many) reasons for not changing my name was that I wouldn't be able to get a firstnamelastname email address with my married name. (yes this was low on my list but I've tossed it out when talking to judgy family members!)
I have 2 yahoo ones (maiden and married) that I use for junk. I got my own domain and email with it for real stuff. I shiver when I see AOL ones, or ones with odd names, like sexykitty or whatever, in the classes I teach to professionals. It ranks up there with Comic Sans.