Timeline for As a graduate student, is it better to use a Gmail address or [email protected]?
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| Oct 3, 2015 at 17:04 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @RubberDuck You'd have to ask a psychologist to answer that. Related: theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | RubberDuck | It could be country specific @O.R.Mapper. Here in the U.S., having an email with a yahoo, aol, or hotmail like domain is viewed as unprofessional. For whatever reason, a gmail address is not viewed that way. Preferably, OP would use his actual professional or academic email address IMO. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:12 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | ... or language-specific; personally, I don't see a difference between Gmail and Yahoo. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:11 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @RubberDuck: I'm not convinced ìGoogle or Google Reader could be called "experimental services that didn't take off". Of course, no service is guaranteed to last forever, though on the scale of relative chance for durability, I'd still say the institution address is more likely to prevail than both a commercial e-mail service and a self-hosted address - do not forget that a domain that is yours today might be sued away from you tomorrow based on trademark claims. As for Yahoo, that might be country-... | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | RubberDuck |
Anyway, my real point is that people view a professional gmail address as professional. The same isn't true for other domains. I wouldn't dare put [email protected] on my resume, but @Gmail.com is viewed professionally. Idk why. You'd have to ask a psychologist to answer that.
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| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:05 | comment | added | RubberDuck | @O.R.Mapper those were all experimental services that didn't take off. Although Gmail began its life much as all of those did, it has a sufficient user base that it's not going the way of the dodo. At least not anytime soon. Now OP has valid reasons for not using it, which is entirely fair. However, no service from any company is ever going to remain forever. If you want to guarantee an email address indefinitely, your only choice is to host it yourself. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | Jason | @O.R.Mapper well that's' the kicker isn't it? I don't think gmail will go away - it's too central to Google's mission to track you and sell your eyeballs. But they might radically change it to increase lock-in. For example: I refuse to use Google's "inbox" app, I prefer IMAP. I am afraid that at some point in the future they might just discontinue IMAP... | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 15:49 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @RubberDuck: "I don't think Gmail is going anywhere anytime soon..." - yes, so thought the users of other services ;) | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 15:36 | comment | added | RubberDuck | @O.R.Mapper I don't think Gmail is going anywhere anytime soon... As for professionalism, it's one of the few free domain addresses that can come off as professional (Given a well chosen address). | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 15:26 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | I would never consider a free e-mail service whose existence depends on the goodwill of a commercial entity to be "stable" over any extended amount of time. (However, my opinion may be influenced by the fact that in my country, the (physical) post company once offered a free e-mail service that was specifically advertised as "a reliable free e-mail address for your whole life", which ended up being discontinued after barely 5 years.) | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 14:59 | comment | added | user16092 | "I find this normal for people like writers or some programmers" -- So true. Some people can pull it off and some people can't. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 14:29 | history | answered | Kimball | CC BY-SA 3.0 |