Email service providers advantage and disadvantages
Over the centuries the method of
communication has varied from sending mails (letters) by horse carriage and/or
a person delivering it, to now communicating through the internet as email.
There are many email carriers that enable us to send such mails towards one
another so just think how would it be without email? Email helps people with
communication since it’s a faster way and more convenient form in reaching
someone. Furthermore, after you register and/or sign up for an email account
you would have an email id (a cyber-address). There are many choices when you
go to open an email id. When you want to have the best email id you have to
compare them. Basically the most commonly used email service providers are
Gmail and Yahoo mail, most of the email users use email accounts from those two
service providers. We can have both ids if we want but if we compare and go for
the best one then it will help to keep life easier.
To begin, an email I.D is the name you
give yourself before the “at the rate of” symbol which is, (“@”), and before
the name of the company (server); for example, abcdef12@gmail.com. When you begin to
make an email I.D it can become difficult since you have a percentage of
choices you can do with making your name (email I.D). You may want to
write acde12@gmail.com but if someone
else has it, it will suggest you others that you may possibly pick from (both
Yahoo and Gmail does this). The main component of an email I.D is storing your
mails. For example, I like to keep my important mails, so that in the future if
I need any information from them I can get it.
How about the storage? Who has the
higher storage capability between Gmail and Yahoo? Well, Gmail provides more
than 7gigabyte space (Ginfo) to a user which is mostly unlimited, and Yahoo
provides literally unlimited space.
Gmail is powered by Google and Yahoo
mail is powered by Yahoo. They both are well reputed companies in the
information technology sector. They both have separate instant messaging (IM)
software. Name of the IM of Google is GTalk and Yahoo is Yahoo Messenger. But
Gmail has built-in chatting function in the email. For example, you could chat
with any of your contacts when you open email id.
Gmail has a conversational method (which
allows you to see in a drop-down form who sent who, in order and with the time
it was sent), while yahoo doesn’t have this feature. The conversation method
allows every reply to become “tail” to the previous reply as well as having
every email is individual there. What I mean by “tail” when Gmail groups all
replies with their original message, creating a single conversation or thread.
There are some common problems of using
email, such as spam mails and security issues. Gmail has a stronger spam
protection system. Probability of getting a spam mail in Gmail account is
nearly about 1% while Yahoo doesn’t have such strong spam protector. Yahoo gets
about 30-40 spam mails a day. Furthermore, because they are leading information
technology companies, they fix almost every small or big security issues, to
keep their good reputation.
If I want to grade the mail searching
option in Yahoo and Gmail then Yahoo mail will get “B+” from me, in the
meanwhile Gmail will get an “A”. The mail searching is faster in Gmail than
Yahoo.
The folder organization of
Yahoo is better than Gmail; because it lets you setup folder system and
organize in your own way, which is kind of difficult in Gmail. Gmail has some
already created folders you can transfer your email there but cannot create new
folders conveniently.
Continuous changing information technology and the participation
of big part of the society gives us better and convenient access to the world.
The World became very small with this information technology. Now-a-days I
cannot think of myself without an email. An email gives me identity and lets me
join in the faster and convenient world. Yahoo and Gmail are the two most
commonly used emails, but when I look for some better choice of email provider,
there could be some confusion. But if I think about what I want from my email,
then I might need to consider what the providers offer and what facilities they
have.
