Confessions of an email junkie

Published on December 7, 2005 By BlueDev In Internet

My blog has served as an outlet. Even at times something of a confessional. The time has come again. I must confess.

Forgive me bloggers, for I have sinned. I am addicted.

To email accounts.

Note, I didn't confess to being addicted to email. I don't think I really am. Yes, I check it regularly, particularly a few weeks ago when it was high time for interview invitations to be sent out. But I don't spend inordinate amounts of time reading or writing emails. In fact, if anything, I probably should spend a little more time responding, as far too often I will get an email, and not respond for a rude amount of time.

However, I am addicted to email accounts. I admit it. I like to try the newest and greatest. I am determined to make sure that the email I am using meets not only my needs, but also my desires. And so I am constantly searching for and signing up for the latest and greatest email account. Truly, the list is obscene:

Original Hotmail account: No longer in use
Yahoo! account: Still in use
First Netscape account: No longer in use
Second Netscape account (created because I wanted a different screen name for AIM): Very rarely used
MSN account (created when we briefly signed up for MSN internet access): Has now become a Windows Mail beta account, use it rarely
Personal Gmail account: used daily
School Gmail account: used daily (I forward all my Duke mail to this address as Duke Webmail is a miserable experience)
Walla account (created to test the water of 1 gig email providers back when that was rare): don't even remember the login
30Gigs account: got an invite, it was 30 gigs, figured what the heck, haven't logged in since I created the account

And to be honest there are more. I think there is an Opera one, a Lycos one, and another one or two that I am forgetting at this time.

Yes, it very well may be a disease.

Part of the problem is that I have contacts who use one or the other email address. And while I could just send out a "Please update your address books" message, I hesitate to do so as many of these emails are years old and I promise things would get messed up in the process. Part of the problem is I love to try new things, and just have to at least be familiar with the options.

So there it is, a confession of an email junkie. But I prefer to think of myself as email informed.

Comments

gfcentral002

on Dec 08, 2005

can i join your club? lol i have the same issue -

hotmail - became my spam box
yahoo - 2 or 3 - first couple were for geocities sites, last was to just store images for web use
netscape - have had several
aol - daily use
gmail - daily use
.mac - daily use
30 gigs - also got an invite and like you only logged in once lol
bolt - i think they had email....
neoplanet - i think they had email too...
lycos - have had a couple

lol it's a problem - i usually get a new one when one starts getting too much spam - like hotmail - that is a battle i will never win in that account.... lol i think we need to start an email accounts annonymous

BlueDev

on Dec 08, 2005

Ah yes, I forgot that since AOL is 'free' if you have RoadRunner broadband, I also now have an AOL account. Haven't started using it really yet, but every once in a while I log in just to see if I can here "You've got mail".

Heh, join the club! Maybe we can have some sort of support group.

Dr Guy

on Dec 08, 2005

Let's see, since I use to be a contractor, I actually had 4 government accounts at one time. But here goes my list

VaDOE - Had since 1990 and still use
VSLA - Gone now
DMAS - Gone now
HCPS - Gone now
Va.Tax - Gone now
Va.DOC - Gone now
Va.VWC - Gone now
Va.DSS - Business, daily use
PCCI - Gone now
Hotmail - Signed up for Messenger, never used, filled up with spam
Mailops - Seldom Used, mostly Spam goes into it
Myrealbox - Daily use, mostly for technical letters
Yahoo - Daily Use - Primary account
Gmail - Used infrequently
ComCast - Rarely Used, came withthe service
Cavtel - Gone now
Earthlink - Gone now

I actually have 2 Myrealbox accounts, 4 Yahoo ones, and 3 Mailops ones. Now, can I join you club?

BlueDev

on Dec 08, 2005

Welcome to the club Dr. Guy!

And, to continue the confession, I also have 2 RoadRunner accounts, as well as three other Gmail accounts, one used for spam purposes only, and two as online file storage sites (one personal and one school).

It is refreshing to know I am not the only one!

All right, three people. Who else wants to join?

Joobeky

on Dec 08, 2005

Mate, I've had heaps of emails, like you i just joined up everytime I got asked. And I've been doing the same with free blog hosts. But Ebloggy looks about the best "free" one yet.

Nice site, love it!

Gday from WA!

Joo

Ps try blog hoppin!

BlueDev

on Dec 08, 2005

Joobeky:

First off, thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment! I appreciate your compliment.

And I could also confess to blog hoppin'! Perhaps that will be my next article. Thanks for the idea.

crimson

on Dec 08, 2005

face it, you are a moving target for new promotions of both webblogs and email.

While I primarily use 2 Yahoo accounts: one personal, on job-volunteer-related, I have hotmail, used to have angelfire, 2 separate university accounts, ISP mail accounts and one from the UK which invited you to come up with as many personalized email accounts that you desired. Forgot that addy though, which says a lot about the pitfall of the idea.

BlueDev

on Dec 08, 2005

Forgot that addy though, which says a lot about the pitfall of the idea.

Oh yeah, I forget about the multiple Uni accounts I have had too. Dang, every post reminds me just what a junkie I am.

face it, you are a moving target for new promotions of both webblogs and email

As sad as it is, it is true also. I am like a puppy, attracted by the new, flashy lights. Sort of pathetic.

d0p3y2k4

on Dec 08, 2005

3 hotmails filled with spam hardly use
1 yahoo filled with spam hardly use
1 earthlink = nomore
1 bellsouth = nomore
1 charter = nomore
1 verizon = nomore
3 gmails = use all the time
1 budlight = signed up logged in 1st week said screw it
bunch of spam email providers grrrrr

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