Do you still have a ‘Hotmail’ email address

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Keep seeing this mentioned on social media in videos or posts about being old 😳🤣
I have no plans to change my email but lots of people saying they hate giving their email address to people and having to say ‘@ hotmail.com’
I didn’t even realise new emails don’t still use this…

Me too.
I like it.

Oh no, really?? What’s the alternative? Genuine question. I’ve got hotmail.com

Yes plus Outlook plus google

I had no idea it was an issue

@Mumtobabyhavoc You can use named folders rather than labels in Gmail and file everything neatly away.

If you don't own the domain (the bit after the "@") then you are at the mercy of whoever does. They are under no obligation to continue subsidising you, and can either start charging for the privilege or worse still just stop doing it.

I can't see hotmail disappearing to be fair. But it will be reading all your emails to train MS "AI". Just as long as you know.

I got a domain under my grown-up name so [email protected] is what my professional face looks like. The nice thing about this is you can create as many email addresses as you like. So [email protected], [email protected] etc. And that makes it trivial to see who has lied and sold my data without permission. (Which is currently 100% of companies over 15 years).

I used a fake hotmail account to sign up to X and Facebook and LinkedIn when they all started. And that account is still live and active. So you can know that at least one "user" on those platforms is fake.

Still got a couple of hotmail addresses, bit of a nightmare though, sometimes problems signing in, seem to attract lots of spam too. I've got a gmail account, HATE it, only used it once or twice, can't stand how it's laid out.
Decided to look for another & PAY for it, it's negligible. It's secure & I can depend on it.

Used to have an Opera & an Orange account too, now deceased!

Hotmail.co.uk, thank you very much!

No one needs my email address to know I am old. A working pair of eyes will tell them! And so what? My age, my email address, my weight, my shoe size, my sexual orientation etc etc don't define me, I define me. I don't concern myself with how that makes me look to other people.

I didn’t know we weren’t supposed to! I have a ‘fullname’@hotmail.com email address & I have no intention to change it 🤣

Tell me you have never worked in marketing without telling me you have never worked in marketing 😀

My dad does! It’s still his primary email :)

@TheBirdintheCave it’s mine too! Bet we’re a similar age 😂

@JaceLancsinteresting. I’m in your age bracket!

Yes I do. I don’t particularly care.. I’m only 30. I have 3 outlook, 3 gmails, hotmail and my work and university emails.

I still have an msn.com email - no plans to change it anytime!

Do you think AOL will ever withdraw support from the emails facility? I wouldn't know what do!

One presumes someone, somewhere is making money from it.

I'll leave it to others to work out how.

I can't seem to figure that out. 😵‍💫

Yup same one I set up at age 15.... I am over 40 🤣

I have one that pre-dates Hotmail!

Others have come & gone but I’m still using my original 🤣🤣

Mine is the one I set up in 1998 after getting my first ever email address in 1997 which was my uni one. I wouldn't change it because literally everything in my life is linked to it. And I still have emails saved which were between me and DH when we were engaged and I was abroad for months at a time. 😍
I have several other email addresses too including gmail but they aren't my main one.

I have a hotmail.co.uk address- don't use it often but still there. Hubby has an AOL address that he's used for donkeys years!

Full maiden name.co.uk had it since 2002. Use it daily and its linked to everything. Have no plans to change it