Julie in CA Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 My boys would like to have their own email, and I need it to be free. I've never used a free email, and don't know what to use, or if it'll involve lots of trashy advertising (?) What do I need to know, what do I need to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 My husband just started using GMX.com and is very pleased with it. Very clean. No blatant advertising (I don't think I've seen any advertising on their site, come to think of it). HUGE inbox. Lots of features by dh likes. I have Gmail (Google's email service) and have like it so far. I switched to them from Yahoo. Yahoo had blatant advertising, was slow to load, and would randomly shut down or not be up and running annoyingly often. Their spam filtering also leaves something to be desired. I have not had these problems with Gmail. There is advertising on Gmail, but it is minimized and all text-based. I have had no spam issues with Gmail, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 :iagree: I vote for gmail! I love love love it. Rarely have spam slip into my in-box, rarely have a legitmate message filtered into spam. TONS of space so you don't have to delete messages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I used hotmail until the spam and ads got to be too much. I've been with gmail a couple of years now and am very pleased with it. Depending on what sites you visit and where you post your email, you will still get spam. Gmail's engine has done well with moving spam in a spam folder and letting through legitimate emails (even if it's from a person not on a safe list) through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satori Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I use gmail. LOVE IT. I use my own domain name with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Have you checked to see if you can get e-mail accounts for them with your Internet provider? Each of our kids (and we have 5 w/accounts) got one of these. They just seem to handle spam better than places like Yahoo. I have several yahoo accounts, so do okay with them (and can recommend them for free online service), but I signed our teenage son up for an account w/Yahoo once and within days he was getting yucky spam (think Viagra). He hadn't even used it yet and we hadn't given his email addy to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHGrandma Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Grandson has had his own account on yahoo for 3 years. The only spam he gets is an occassional email from some game site I hadn't blocked him from quickly enough. The filter works very well to sort those out. We are very careful not to spread his email around, just to family, a couple friends, scouts, 4H... hmm, that's no small number and we haven't had a problem. I will say that using yahoo brings up some news stories that are pretty raw, especially when his dad was still in the service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in CA Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 Yes, I actually did check about that first. I'm allowed 3 email addys, but I have myself + 3 teenage boys. It just wasn't adding up in my favor! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Echoing others who recommended gmail. Just go to http://www.gmail.com and follow the instructions. You can either access the email on the web, or have it grabbed by a mail reader like Microsoft Outlook. My kids do the former...I do the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fshinkevich Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I would also go with Gmail, the ads are along the top are discreet in text, not pictures. I have not noticed anything I wouldn't want my kids to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 (edited) Did you call to ask if you could have more? Our "official" limit was five addies, but they gave me more. They're just trying to keep people from using too many email addies for improper purposes. As for online ones, I opened a gmail account recently because I was having problems sending to 200 students at Yahoo (it's an opt-in group, but yahoo was treating it as spam). I can't stand gmail! It's very confusing to me; all messages in a thread are lumped together in one window and it's harder to find the exact message you're looking for. Granted, I've just used Yahoo forever, so maybe it's the "hard to teach an old dog new tricks" thing. Edited August 13, 2009 by milovaný Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phathui5 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I've had hotmail since the 8th grade. There's no trashy advertising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 We use gmail for us and the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WistfulRidge Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I have multiple email accounts...one yahoo, one gmail, and a couple hotmail. I prefer my hotmail and gmail to yahoo. I use gmail for school, but not much else - everything that passes through it legally belongs to Google and as a writer I'm paranoid and don't want anything I write to belong to someone else, hence the hotmail. I've always been really satisified with hotmail and have never had any problems with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I switched to gmail when we changed internet providers after 6 years. I never want the hassle of changing all of my accounts, let alone notifying my contacts, again. I like the gmail threading. In fact, at first I had it pulling into Thunderbird, but I like the threading so much that I stopped. Well, that and when I read something on my BlackBerry and delete it, I don't want it hanging around in my inbox in Thunderbird. That's annoying. Plus, it will interface with my Google calendar, which synchs with the BB... you get the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiddenJewel Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Gmail has my vote. The spam catcher is great! And I love the interface although that probably isn't as important to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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