When was the last time you thought hard about what email address to use? If it’s been a long time since you first signed up, it might be worth considering signing up for a new one, as it may come with some benefits worth exploring. Before deciding whether to sign up for new emails, you can pay attention to these signs, which may help you make a choice.
Should you change your email? Pay attention to these signs
Your email address is no longer representative of you
Your email address is probably one of your earliest digital identities, so it holds a special place in your heart. But also because you may be young and not think rigorously when you register, it may be a very interesting, middle-class name, and even you may find it a bit strange when you look back on it after many years. Although email was only used as a method of communication at the time, now the original email feels like it has been frozen in time. The rise of various social software and messaging tools has caused many people to use Mail only for work communications.
You can think about it. Since you registered your first email address, your life has undergone tremendous changes, your interests have continued to develop, your social circle is no longer limited to friends in school, and your way of thinking has become more mature. So, is your original email address still suitable for you now?
It’s hard for people to remember your email
It’s obviously a bit annoying when you give someone your email address and then a few days later they ask you to give it again because they forgot or wrote it wrong. Sometimes, our emails can be hard to remember, especially when they contain a long string of letters and numbers that aren’t always the most intuitive. And email services often suggest automatically generated addresses, which are just a string of random characters and not helpful for memorization.
So when you find that people are constantly asking you to repeat or respell your email, or you notice that the address in official (or unofficial) documents is often misspelled, sign up for a new email name that is shorter, more direct, and easier to pronounce.
You changed career focus or industry
Life is full of changes, and this also applies to careers. When you change jobs or graduate, it can sometimes feel awkward to continue using the same email name that was associated with your previous career. For example, your current email name prefix may be named “bassman” because you were originally a bass player. When you use this address for work, you will often be asked, and you will have to explain it again every time. Of course, this example is still less embarrassing.
You can sign up for a new email address, describe yourself more briefly as a person rather than your interests, and reshape it so that others can see more clearly who you are today rather than who you were in the past.
Your inbox is full of junk
Is your inbox constantly filled with spam, promotional messages, newsletters, or other messages you don’t actually care about? If so, the clutter can make it difficult to find important letters from friends, colleagues, and others. When your inbox is filled with unnecessary stuff, it’s easy to miss opportunities, deadlines, or valuable updates.
A big reason why this happens is that your email address may have been leaked for years. Spammers and marketers spend a long time harvesting email addresses and bombarding them with spam, and even if you unsubscribe, there’s never an end to the flood of irrelevant emails as new marketers are added every day. To them, your email is just another string of letters and numbers, not a real person. Besides being an annoyance, all this extraneous content can create real productivity issues. Constant email notifications dealing with things you don’t care about distract and waste valuable time distinguishing between what’s important and what’s not.
The solution is simple: Create a new, clean email address and share it selectively. A spam-free inbox means more focus on real conversations that matter.
It feels good to have a fresh start
If the above reasons for a new email address don’t convince you, you might also consider that it provides a symbolic fresh start. Maybe your past emails are filled with memories you don’t want to relive every time you open your inbox, or maybe you just want to dedicate an address to close friends and family, keeping work and other contacts separate.
Privacy will also be improved, you will have complete control over who gets your new address, and prevent unnecessary contact from past relationships, jobs, organizations or other contacts through digital means.
Source: KOCPC Chinese