• Laura

    (@laurajqueregmailcom)


    Hi everyone,

    New blogger here! As I go about setting up all of my social media and following other similar bloggers, I’m wondering what kind of email address would be best to use. I see a lot of bloggers use theirblogname@gmail.com. I am wondering why they wouldn’t do firstname@domainname.com. Is it just personal preference? Is a gmail address better in some way?

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  • I think there are too many possible variables to say either is always better. But for social inter-connections and/or Single Sign On (SSO) kinds of things, I would suspect ‘me@mysite.com’ would be the least-adaptable.

    I used to use one e-mail address for everything (back in my old forums days).

    Since I have my own domain, I do the following:

    facebook@mydomain.com
    twitter@mydomain.com
    instagram@mydomain.com
    wordpress@mydomain.com

    and so forth

    so if a site is something.com, I will do something@mydomain.com

    That way I will know who sold my e-mail address to spammers.

    This is more for the smaller sites. Not accusing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or/and WordPress of selling my e-mail addresses.

    That one e-mail address started to receive so much spam that when I changed it, I had to go through all the other websites and change e-mail on those website profiles.

    You know when you change e-mail address, you have to wait for that e-mail where you click a verification link?

    So if let’s say WordPress was to sell my e-mail address on my profile…All I do is change wordpress@mydomain.com and not have to change my twitter/instagram/facebook/etc…profiles.

    I still have info@mydomain.com contact@mydomain.com contactme@mydomain.com for people to well…contact me.

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