Vchat20
Landing is the REAL challenge
join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
clubs: 
1 edit | reply to battleop
Re: Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, & Gmail are 1 to 4 in email race
Agreed. Not to mention the very simplistic web interface. With gmail, it's 'get in and get it done'. With the likes of Yahoo, Live Mail, Hotmail, etal it's 'get in, attempt to log in, wait for the graphics heavy pages to load, navigate, weed out spam that bypassed the junk filters, pick out legit mail that got caught by spam filters....'
My mother still uses what is now Live Mail but used to be a straight Hotmail account and I have witnessed this first hand. It's absolutely terrifying to be honest. I use gmail myself and don't even spend the fraction of the time she does checking her mail.
I certainly don't think it's because it's being used for 'throwaway' addresses. You have to remember that even now, the large majority of gmail users got in during the invite-only period and I'd hope that they would have had legitimate uses for those addresses when they got invited. At least I know this was my case. I've had my address for at least 4 years now and it's my primary personal address and I haven't looked back since. I've also added another gmail address specifically for 'professional' emails like job applications, work, etc.. I think gmail's actually one of the few free mail services out there that are actually seen in a better light than others in a professional sense.
--
I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
·
·
·
·