The Problem With (a lot of) Email Accounts

Trying to accept the challenge, here I am again, posting another random muse of mine. I'm actually thankful that it crossed my mind to make a post based on something that happen to me like, just now.

It's about email. My excessive email accounts. I think every single person that is computer, technology and internet literate have email account. I bet it is more than one. Like, for personal, for profesional, for second life, for stalking and for spam. Like, don't ever try to deny this. This is the reality for internet user.

I confess, I don't even remember what is my first email account. But, I do remember it was a Yahoo account. Google was just a toddler back then. Then, I adopted the hotmail account during college, and finally the Gmail when I was about to enter uni. That was just about three. But it should be more. It supposed to be two email account for each service provider, so I basically have six email account. And, up till present, I probably have more than 20 email accounts, and still counting.

While I was checking my email(s) accounts, I found out that some of them doesn't exist anymore. I panicked, since I have LJ and tumblr account (which I care a lot) registered using those accounts. They just disappear. Perhaps, Microsoft decided to delete my accounts due to inactivity, or because the account name are just too childish to be owned by a real person. I don't even want to think about my personal MSN account that I use to chat with some of my friends. Maybe Microsoft have decided to delete those as well. I can only hope they don't.

While panicking, first thing that come to my mind was to create a new gmail account and update the LJ account with the new email. But creating a new gmail account seem to be a pain in the behind. My phone numbers was needed for verification, which is quite intrusive for me. I don't even give my phone to my family members, why should I give it to Google. I finally understand why one of my online friend freaked out when I suggest her to create a gmail account, so that I can chat with her through gchat. Phone numbers are sensitive and private, because in this modern day, technology have peel down our armor. We can reach almost anyone and everyone.

I still haven't figure out the conclusion for this post, since I just want to vent out my frustration with those email accounts. And yeah, email me. I don't answer phone call or reply text messages anymore.