Free Email and Instant Messaging
 

What's so great about free email services? Let's count the ways they can potentially benefit you:

1. Permanent address if your Internet provider goes belly up or changes names

2. Alternate address to give to shopping web sites or bulletin boards

3. By using the address for the reasons outlined above, you can substantially reduce the spam you receive in your regular email box

4. Works great to add other household members to email that will follow them when they go to college or 'leave the nest'

5. Easy to check from anywhere in the world

Today, I demonstrated how to sign up for a Yahoo account, but you can also find good free email services at the following sites:

• HotMail

• Mail.com

• My Way - Ad Free portal and email

Secondly, today, we talked about and demonstrated instant messaging services and how to use them. In the process, we dispelled the myth about AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) being only available to AOL subscribers. The fact is that anyone can sign up for a free AIM account. The other services we talked about include:

Yahoo Messenger

MSN Messenger

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