As part of my constant battle to have less, not more things to maintain on the computer, I've been trying to reduce the number of email addresses I've accumulated over the years. I have one "official" one for Behemoth media I've had since the early 90's, plus personal ones, gmail and Yahoo versions for behemoth and the personal ones, plus an ever growing number of Apple emails thanks to Apple's constant adding and then abandoning of online "cloud-like" services, each with it's own email address attached.
All the passwords and remembering what email was used for where is a huge pain in the ass. No to mention every mobile device has to be set up for so multiple accounts and in the end, no one knows which one to use to get in touch with you.
So I'm trying to cut back and finding it practically impossible. Apple has no way to remove old email addresses but they do send everyone one to the same account so it's less a burden administratively. I am seriously thinking of getting rid of the dedicated Behemoth media account. It's not like I'm a big company (It's only me) and at this point I think the gmail version will work just find and be easier to manage. I'll keep a personal gmail for buying stuff. The yahoo account I had rid myself of years ago, but then I needed a flickr account and as flickr and yahoo are the same now, I had no choice but make anew mail account.
My ultimate goal will be to get down to 4 including the never to be looked at yahoo one. Wish me luck!
2 comments:
I've had two for many years, and that's it. I generally used one for personal stuff and one for 'official' stuff, which was also the one I'd put on sites requiring an address so I could weed out the junk. I have a flickr account, but no yahoo address. I just have a comcast address (which my domain address forwards to) and a gmail one. I can't imagine having four. That does seem to be a pain.
well I have I think 8 at the moment… I'll have to see if I can switch the flickr to an non yahoo email!
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