Multiple email addresses

Most people of our generation who use Gmail originally migrated from yahoo. At the beginning of 2000s yahoo was the definition of Internet. Some of us still use yahoo. People like me who abandoned yahoo, was due to the fact that it is very difficult to maintain multiple accounts. So we grew the habit of checking one address all the time and check few others occasionally.

I think smartphones have solved that problem. The problem we had is email was pull based, meaning you login into the Web and ask for all your email and you get them. Some people (very few) used to use local client for Web mail. But things have changed a lot in this era with he grace of smartphones. Web mail is no longer pull based, it becomes push based, meaning we no longer go to the Web and ask for the mails. Now we do our things and our phones notify us when new mail received. I don't know other people but that's a big time saver for me who used to check email in every hour. Now I don't check email, emails find me.

That made a huge difference. Now having multiple accounts is much easier than before. You don't have to check all your Web mails every hour; they will find you when necessary. I thing it is now way more convenient to have multiple emails. Those of us migrated from yahoo can actually start checking those old addresses again without adding much workload! Technology is nice!