Hack 7: Future-Proof Your Email Address

Level Easy

Platform All

Cost Free

Over the years, you’ve probably employed as many email addresses as pairs of socks, but you don’t want to change them as often. Switching your primary email address can be a big inconvenience that leads to missed messages and lost relationships. You give your email address to countless friends, relatives, and web services, and publish it on mailing lists, websites, and documents forever cached in search engine indexes. But if your email address is tied to a former ISP, the company you used to work for, the university you attended, or the embarrassing handle you chose in college, switching to a new address can become a necessity.