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WHY SHOULD WE HOLD SEVERAL EMAIL ACCOUNTS?
Introduction
In our day and age it is not uncommon to find
people holding multiple email accounts, what
with globalization and networking today, the
world has become a mere village, this means that
a person in Russia can communicate and interact
with a person in Australia, or a person in
Indonesia can conduct business with a person in
Peru, the possibilities are endless. The
internet has made communication a readily
available implement; therefore it comes as no
surprise that owning an email account is quite
necessary and more so several for the sake of
convenience. Therefore in what ways can multiple
email accounts be of benefit to us?
For convenience
Sometimes there can be technical malfunctions
with an Internet server, it probably cannot
authenticate when trying to send mail, poor
setup on a client, or simply that the server
cannot access the computer because of being in a
remote location. In such instances one would be
forced to look for the next functional client,
for example if you are a yahoo user and happen
to be in a location where yahoo is inaccessible
or performing poorly you would look for another
option like hotmail, but if you don't have an
account with hotmail, then the situation can get
rather frustrating for you, in this situation
owning at least one account from each client
would have been of benefit.
Help us characterize and distinguish
Supposing you want to setup a business of your
own or say a company, it would be wise to assign
a separate email account other than your
personal one to conduct your business, for one
it would be the professional thing to do, as
definitely you would want to give out an email
address that sells or advertises your business
as opposed to giving out an address that has
your personal information on it. It would also
be of benefit to you if for instance the very
account has to be accessed by another party, say
an employee or business partner, since it is a
business account and not a personal one you
don't have to worry about your privacy being
contravened.
For caution
When wanting to explore a certain website that
we know nothing about, it would be a good idea
to give a dummy email address and not personal
one when logging into the prospective website,
hence concealing your identity and protecting
you from receiving harassing emails from
spammers, spoofers (people who send malicious
emails to cause damage to a person or
organization) and phishers (criminals who try to
obtain users information e.g. bank account
numbers to conduct their criminal activities).
Conclusion
All the above motives are just but a chunk of
the reasons why people nowadays prefer to
operate several email accounts, they are a
constant reminder of how electronic mailing has
come to be an integral part of our lives but
just like any other piece of technology we
should use it wisely and cautiously and it will
be of essential advantage to our lives.
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