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If you are reading this, its safe to assume you don’t have one? It may also be understood, you know very little about emailing and the Internet. With that in mind this topic will attempt to explain in very loose terms so you will not have difficulty understanding it.
It’s also simply not necessary to be technical about this. Emailing has simplified the action of communicating with other people. No doubt traditional postal services have had a significant “lightening of the load”. But with progress, there are thousands of new real world businesses coming into world daily so users of email may not have reduced this to enough of a difference to make things any easier on them.
It certainly hasn’t helped how much “snail mail” costs. Prices of stamps continue to rise yearly, so I would be interested to know if this is because of the lack of stamp buyers or just so many new postal recipients being created that it warrants stamp price increases. One to ponder.
No doubt, if you have a television and watch it, you have seen commercials for Yahoo, or MSN. These are email carriers. They also provide Internet access and other needed web based services, but their roots are in offering free email boxes to anyone.
After all, if you have an email address you can do literally anything on the web. Nearly every type of transaction, or service, or product you obtain on the Internet requires you to have an email address to get it. Even free things require you to have an email address.
So if you are borrowing your friend’s pc, or using one you have at your job, the only way you can use email and keep it private is to have a web based email box. Did you know, that if you use your email at your job, any and all of that email is the property of your employer? That’s a hard fact the most now know, but in case you didn’t then don’t assume you have privacy in your emails from your job.
Nowadays, most employers require their employees to read, understand and sign a disclosure stating that they are aware of this fact and that their employer can read their email anytime the determine it is justified to do so.
If you want to mail cousin Jane about a new recipe for chocolate doodles you came across, the “company” may frown on this. They consider the email client you use to be a privilege for you and a tool for work. Not a forum to carry on relations with your family and friends. Some are pretty hard nosed about it too, and reprimand employees that engage in this. So consider this a friendly warning, your day job email is not private.
A good rule of thumb about email, but sadly it applies to ALL email no matter where you send it from. Don’t say anything in an email you would not want shown on the nightly national news. Digital media is also the property of the carrier. The authorities investigating crimes simply by demanding it from the carrier can seize it.
Don’t let this discourage you, just a few words of common sense and good judgment.
First off, do you have a pc at home?
Do you have a ISP (Internet Service Provider) that allows you a live connection to the Internet?
These questions need to be answered first to continue with our discussion on email. The answer to those questions and determine what is the best way for you to obtain an email box, see the topic" What type of email is there?"?