Judged by email

I'm always surprised when people have email accounts at Hotmail. I associate Hotmail with being a teenager and getting lots of spam. I still have an account with them, but I only use it in places where I think I'll get spammed.

I wonder, is the choice of email provider as conscious a choice as which trainers, or which car. Does having a .mac account say the same things about you as owning an Apple computer? By using Gmail, do you say you are forward thinking or happy to give over your data? Does having a Gmail account say less now that everyone can have it? Rather sadly, I'm glad that I got my Gmail account before it became GoogleMail, because it looks nicer written down.

Or do people use the first webmail they come into contact with and keep using it? And does no one except me look at your mail provider and form an assumption about you?

Comments

[DanC]

I'm with you on Gmail. People with Gmail accounts will be seen as the digital aristocrats!

[Dan]

I think I judge on e-mail a bit. I'm always surprised when grown ups have hotmail accounts and half expect them all eventually to redeem themselves by switching over to gmail.

[Helen-LG]

Not necessarily so much with individuals but if I come across a company/service using a free domain like Hotmail it kinda freaks me out.. Most of my friends have paid for domains for personal use so coming across a company that doesn't seems just weird!

Or is that just me? Am I being a snob!?

(I still have hotmail but I also have a yahoo and a gmail and I use each for different things!)

[rollergirl]

Never thought about it before. But I'm glad you pointed out the difference between Gmail and Googlemail, it's been bugging me!

[Will]

Hotmail for registrations for things like Facebook etc and tickets etc.

Yahoo for professional things.

Gmail for the rest. Really don't like Gmail very much. More intuitive my arse.