The Benefits of Using Multiple Email Addresses For Business

Why You Want to Use Multiple Email Addresses
By Lee J.

If you are among the minority with just one email address, you might want to rethink your situation for a bit. It's never been easier to get more than one email address, and you can get them with excellent features for free. But besides the sheer ease of procuring them, there are very good reasons to obtain multiple email accounts.

So why use multiple email addresses?

• Protect your identity: While nowhere near as critical to identity than one's Social Security Number, your email address does leave a trail in cyberspace that could provide clues about what you do online. Using the same email address everywhere would make it fairly easy to track you down, say on Facebook. If you post to forums with your address, it may show up in search engines. And if your address contains all or part of your name, then you are never able to communicate anonymously.


• Guard against spam: Spammers love to mine the Internet for email addresses. The more you use the same address on the Web, in forums, in newsletters and registration forms, the more likely you'll run into shady people who'll sell your email address to spammers. And that's how that junk mail ends up in your mailbox. Instead, you want to create a new address just for use with forums and the like.


• Keep business, school and personal separate: It's inappropriate -- perhaps even forbidden-- to use your work email for personal ends. The reverse is also true: it is unprofessional to use a non-work address for official correspondence. So keep them separate by creating multiple accounts. Your employer - if you have one - may provide you with the business email.


• Create multiple identities: It's easy to conjure a new, fictitious identity with a unique email address that you've never used elsewhere. It's perfect for use with online gaming and other hobbies where you assume an "avatar" or "screen name" to connect with others who share your passion for the same topic.


• Keep your inbox clean: Dividing your mails across multiple addresses keeps the mailboxes slimmer and cleaner. If you were to use only one, your personal mails would be in the same chaotic pile as your work mail, subscriptions and Facebook notifications.


• Discover which is the best email service: Sometimes you may want to open a new email account just to check out the features of a different email service. Been using Hotmail all this time? You don't know what you're missing. Check out Gmail and Yahoo! Mail for alternatives.

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