A few weeks ago I got an email from my domain provider telling me they are switching to a new and improved email platform.
I liked having my own personal email address at my own personal domain (@ patbertram rather than @yahoo or whatever), so I used that email frequently. I also used that email address to sign up for various websites because if I got inundated with junk, it didn’t come to me via the phone. I had to wait until I went online to check my email.
Ever since that notification, I’ve been making a list of people and businesses I have to contact to change my email address, as well as sites where I have to change my email login address. Making all those changes in the two months allotted seems insurmountable. (After two months of a free trial, they will be charging me monthly, though how being charged for a service that used to be free can be considered new and improved, I don’t know.) Because of the monumental task (and because I am rebellious and don’t want to do the work), I’ve been considering going ahead and paying for a year or so until I either get everyone changed over or until attrition makes some of the changes unnecessary.
Today the changeover happened. And the new and improved is nothing more than Microsoft’s Outlook. I already have a Hotmail email using that same platform, but since it’s dedicated to family emails, I don’t have to use it very much, which is good, because I find it tedious cumbersome.
The only good thing about the changeover today is that it made the decision about keeping the account for me. Since it’s a platform I don’t like, and one, moreover, that I already have, I see no point in paying money for the service.
I bet you can guess what I’m going to be doing the next couple of months! And it won’t be me having fun, that’s for sure.
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Pat Bertram is the author of Grief: The Inside Story – A Guide to Surviving the Loss of a Loved One. “Grief: The Inside Story is perfect and that is not hyperbole! It is exactly what folk who are grieving need to read.” –Leesa Healy, RN, GDAS GDAT, Emotional/Mental Health Therapist & Educator
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June 11, 2021 at 8:49 pm
Send me an email so I know which one to use should I need to.
June 11, 2021 at 9:07 pm
I think pat @ bertramsblog.com should work until I decide what I’m going to do.
June 11, 2021 at 9:19 pm
Thanks. Keep me posted.
June 12, 2021 at 11:29 am
Oh these “upgrades” and “improvements,” my foot. Just IT developers trying to look busy and justify their enormous salaries while people who do real and vital work get paid a pittance.
June 12, 2021 at 1:01 pm
Exactly. And so we have to pay or pay more so they can get paid more.