Lazy Saturday afternoon thought: How many email inboxes (or email addresses) do you currently manage?
My count is 5, and that’s not including some masked addresses.
Holy cow. Is that not just insane? What happened?!
Does this say anything about where we’re headed…? Does this say anything about us?
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"Just" three for me.
But that's just regular email. When you think about managing your greader, twitter, fbook, ID, posterous, etc etc etc accounts…..it gets a little insane.
We make things overly complicated sometimes
Too many (about 8 at last count). But they all come into my gmail account so really it just feels like one huge inbox rather than a few little ones…
Inboxes?
Facebook,Youtube, Myspace,
Email?
Bellsouth, My Own Domain (bfalexander.com), North Greenville University, Gmail, and a forwarding address for our schools radio station which I am on staff.
I don't think it's insane. I have apple mail check for messages every hour. If I changed that I'd probably go insane and never get anything accomplished.
5: work, GMail, Yahoo (personal and website comments), and Me. Most traffic comes in to my work and Yahoo accounts because I have had them the longest.
something like 4-8 depending on how you count.
But I use email addresses for different segments of my life, and filter even more specifically from there too.
P.S. Why do Universities assume you want an email address. I wish I could opt out and use a different one by default…
The biggest reason, so that they eliminate the email ate my homework execuse…They have full control over the campus email system and know whether its up or down….
Lets see I have one work email account, one personal email account, one volunteer email account, one secure email account, one facebook account, two twitters accounts (work and personal) for a total of 7 that are used on a fairly regular basis. Anybody want to posit some theology on inboxes and information overload?
5 (+2 that rarely get email) … they all come into Apple Mail though…
Erm… I don't think its insane… maybe it is because it might show how many pies we have our fingers in… too many probably.
I just moved into the world of Apple Mail. I love it because the dropdown for all my mailboxes can be clicked so that don't see all of them, instead it's all in one inbox. It's great!
4 – main (gmail), blog (readscott.com), business (updatable.cc), job/church (lifechurch.tv)
Of course, all four are filtered into and handled by the stupendous Gmail.
I have two personal email accounts, but i have one redirecting to the other now to save the extra log in. I also have an email account for each of the two universities i am currently enrolled at (my home university and where i'm studying abroad). I think i might have some other accounts somewhere but i don't check them.
let's see… 18. 13 for various business accounts, 2 on my personal domain, Hotmail (which I plan on closing soon), Gmail, and Twitter. I have the first 15 coming in to Thunderbird (much better than Outlook) using IMAP, and the accounts with new email get a little star next to them, I move emails to local folders to organize them. I have Google Talk checking Gmail, and I check Twitter every day or so. There is also MySpace and Facebook, which I check every month or so, if that. I get a notification if I get a message on any of the last three.
I have 2 and I am happy with that. One for emails which I consider official and another one for emails which I consider casual…
I have around 5 or 6 but that's about to change. Recently I received a google voice account and the idea behind one phone number that routes to your devices/locations (home, mobile, business) based on how you determine where the contact should go made me remember this concept is based on email structure. So that's what I'm preparing to do give out one email address that routes to different sub-folders based on contact routing; it just makes sense.
Strictly speaking email, I've got five addresses. I'm actually in the process of working on consolidating a bit, but I have little room left to simplify.
Hmm.. Let's see.. Work (msstate.edu), Personal (gmail), Super Personal (its a secret), Website (stefantribble.com), Spam(yahoo), School(msstate.edu), and one or two others… so….. maybe 8 plus all my social sites.
I don't thinks it's insanity.. I use the work only at work, the school only at school, and the other have there own space in my life.
3 daily…3 that fwd…i from college that i kept…and several that i don't really know where they went….
EEEEk … why did you have to ask this.
Like 6 separate IMAP accounts … and then, the ole' Facebook inbox, like it or not, is becoming one of my most used inboxes of all.