TKJunkMail
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|  Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, & Gmail are 1 to 4 in email race
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Yahoo dominates e-mail with 88.4 million users in the United States in August, according to comScore. That is far more than Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail at 45.2 million and AOL at 44.8 million, not to mention Gmail at 26.0 million.
Gmail is 4th in number of visitors but gaining rapidly
But Gmail users spend less time on the svc than the others and it is dropping. This may mean that Gmail is easier to use and email checks are faster. Or it may mean that Gmail users are just using Gmail as a throwaway address and get in and out fast since the emails they get are worthless and unimportant.
And lastly, email visits to all the services is dropping. Does this mean cellphone IMs are replacing email as a primary internet communication service.
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00000 | "But Gmail users spend less time on the svc than the others and it is dropping"
Heh maybe they are spending less time because their spam filters work better. I guess this would lead to less time on the site sifting through junk mail. |
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Vchat20
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1 edit | Agreed. Not to mention the very simplistic web interface. With gmail, it's 'get in and get it done'. With the likes of Yahoo, Live Mail, Hotmail, etal it's 'get in, attempt to log in, wait for the graphics heavy pages to load, navigate, weed out spam that bypassed the junk filters, pick out legit mail that got caught by spam filters....'
My mother still uses what is now Live Mail but used to be a straight Hotmail account and I have witnessed this first hand. It's absolutely terrifying to be honest. I use gmail myself and don't even spend the fraction of the time she does checking her mail.
I certainly don't think it's because it's being used for 'throwaway' addresses. You have to remember that even now, the large majority of gmail users got in during the invite-only period and I'd hope that they would have had legitimate uses for those addresses when they got invited. At least I know this was my case. I've had my address for at least 4 years now and it's my primary personal address and I haven't looked back since. I've also added another gmail address specifically for 'professional' emails like job applications, work, etc.. I think gmail's actually one of the few free mail services out there that are actually seen in a better light than others in a professional sense.
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I spend an average of 5 minutes a day, if that, on GMail. Because all my e-mail on there is pushed to my phone (Mobipush) or IMAP'd to my iMac. My Macbook Air just checks webmail when I see something needing it on my cell. Overall, I probably spend 45-60 minutes per day on e-mail, probably a little less, depending on how many times my mom and I play pen pals that day. |
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iansltx
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Word. Spam doesn't make it into my inbox, legit mail doesn't seem to be gobbled by the spam filter. Thus I can get in and get out quickly...hence my staying with GMail as my primary email (AIM is throwaway\Comcast forward, Yahoo is throwaway without IMAP, then there's my school address) since summer '04. Still love it. |
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