The comments to
my latest blog post got me thinking: what's your primary e-mail?
I use GMail for all my e-mail, though I suppose that might change if I ever worked somewhere that preferred I use their e-mail system. Even then, I could (and would) link GMail to that account and access it through my GMail inbox.
I have backup e-mail addresses, like my old university e-mail (which gets nothing but spam at this point, but sometimes a university e-mail address comes in handy), hotmail, and yahoo... but I pretty much never use any of them.
This question is also interesting to me because a clear majority of people I know also use GMail as their primary e-mail address. Probably at least 75% of them. So many that when I find out someone's e-mail address is
not GMail, I'm taken aback. Particularly if their e-mail address isn't a work e-mail, but some other free service like hotmail or yahoo, or, even worse, e-mail provided by their ISP. It's just an entirely foreign concept to me and my network of friends and co-workers.
Hotmail and Yahoo are decent competitors in the free e-mail market, and GMail is certainly not perfect, but the UI, the label system (as opposed to folders), and the integration with other Google products are just three reasons why I prefer GMail. I've got suggestions to make all three of those things better in GMail, but for me they are still superior to the alternatives.
So how about you? What do you use as your primary e-mail and why?
Bonus questions: Do you have backup e-mail addresses? If so, what services are they on and how often do you use them, if ever?