Electronic lifestyle: email accounts

Self-tutoring about electronic practicalities: the tutor mentions email ones.

For so many things, nowadays, you need an email account. At the same time, you have numerous ones – from work perhaps, or from college – that you use daily. Then, you have personal ones, including one tied to your phone. On top of that, you may have a few that aren’t tied to anything.

Questions that arise might include 1) “How did I accumulate so many email accounts?” 2) “Which one should I use for this immediate purpose?”

We all know that caveat, “Be careful using your current work or college email on long-term correspondence or on resumes, since you may no longer be there if/when the place contacts you.” The emails may be great for now, but some documents become templates to which people forget to make changes. Therefore, you perhaps need another email that’s “permanent” (whatever that means, in today’s life).

Next, there is the idea that some organizations give you an email that may not be recommended for outside contacts. This introduces complication since such email addresses are likely ones you use all the time, so would be convenient to use for everything. Yet, for outside contacts, you need to use a different email, which you then need to check. Sometimes I’ve been caught not checking that other email, even though I’ve sent something out from it.

A quirky situation can happen when an organization gives you an email identity from them, but it’s just a reception address from which emails can be forwarded elsewhere. Therefore, you can’t send from that address. People mention that they’ve sent to it, yet you may have even forgotten it, since you always receive the emails sent to it at a different account.

I’ll talk more about this:)