Are you changing your email?

lburkey21

For those of you who use your last name (maiden) for your personal email address, are you keeping that email address or will you be creating a new one with your new married name?

GracefulMeadow86

im keeping it. i changed my display name but thats it. im too lazy to change everything else

preciousgrl120

I haven't decided yet.  It may be too much work for me!

lisam1217

I actually made a new email address a good two weeks before getting married.  I was so excited to get a new email!  However, a month after getting married, it still is just sitting there unused because I haven't been motivated yet to go through the whole process.  Though, I got a new work email!

Ayla10

lisam1217:

I actually made a new email address a good two weeks before getting married.  I was so excited to get a new email!  However, a month after getting married, it still is just sitting there unused because I haven't been motivated yet to go through the whole process.  Though, I got a new work email!

Hahaha, lisam this is exactly what I did! I need to get motivated and start switching things over to the new address. For some reason I've been in lazy-land lately.

SweetCFly

I changed mine... I go by my middle name as it is, so having my old maiden name be in my e-mail address (esp if I ever used if tor work-related purposes) would only further the ever-present confusion process for people.  Plus I was just excited! 

Jeffie86

I thought I would need a new email address last year when I graduated, so I made one then, and some people still use my old email, which I still have, since I now work at the university.

I doubt I'll change it any time soon.  It's too much of a hassle to get those stubborn people to change it in their address books.

l337Jacqui

i changed mine it was the first thing i changed (besides facebook name) because it was easy lol...i just sent everyone an e-mail letting them all know so they could change it in their address books, and then i switched over! i still have everything from my old one forward to my new one though

lburkey21

l337Jacqui:

i changed mine it was the first thing i changed (besides facebook name) because it was easy lol...i just sent everyone an e-mail letting them all know so they could change it in their address books, and then i switched over! i still have everything from my old one forward to my new one though

This is what I'm thinking of doing. I just haven't gotten it together to actual do. Maybe tonight.

SweetCFly

l337Jacqui:

i changed mine it was the first thing i changed (besides facebook name) because it was easy lol...i just sent everyone an e-mail letting them all know so they could change it in their address books, and then i switched over! i still have everything from my old one forward to my new one though

Yup and this is what I did!  I actually have everything from the new e-mail forwarded to the old as well, because I have a Droid which is linked with your g-mail account.  Unfortunately you can't change your e-mail in your Droid after the initial set-up, so I probably should have made my new e-mail with my new name back in March when I got the phone, but I thought 4 months was too early.  But this way I can still read stuff on my Droid right away from my new e-mail... Forwarding is a wonderful thing

kaynix21

I did. I made a new one and I use it for some things...

Facebook updates still goes to my maiden name email. And a lot of "junk" emails go there...I'm slowly switching, but I'm not trying that hard lol.

kenright16

I changed mine right away, and just sent people an e-mail asking them to update their address books. I was ready for a new one - I was getting way too much junk mail.

My work e-mail changed, too...this was more difficult, because I know my clients are having a hard time remembering my new name. My old work e-mail will stay active indefinitely, so at least I won't miss anything.

lburkey21

SweetCFly:

[Yup and this is what I did!  I actually have everything from the new e-mail forwarded to the old as well, because I have a Droid which is linked with your g-mail account.  Unfortunately you can't change your e-mail in your Droid after the initial set-up, so I probably should have made my new e-mail with my new name back in March when I got the phone, but I thought 4 months was too early.  But this way I can still read stuff on my Droid right away from my new e-mail... Forwarding is a wonderful thing

 

I'm getting a Droid at the end of next month! I guess this gives me a reason to set up that new email account sooner rather than later.

What Droid do you have? DH and I are both going to get the Incredible I think. His upgrade is available now so I might order it for him this week. We'll see how he likes it.

Hjmarie

I had my work email changed right away on my first day back, but I'm still working on making a new one up for my personal email.  Since I only use my maiden names 1st letter I might not change my personal one.

Maybe DH and I will just make one together ... but for now I have my work email, school email & personal email so between all 3 of them someone can correctly get a hold of me. Let's hope at least! lol

Megglez2008

MIL asked me this the other day. Honestly, I hadn't thought about it much. I probably will at some point when I feel up to it, but everything I do is linked to this email. All of my accounts, student loans, contacts know this email. I'll get a new one eventually, but for now I'll be keeping this one.

mrs.jesse

I changed mine when we got back from our honeymoon. I did as Jacqui did, and just sent out an e-mail to everyone in my contacts list, informing them of the change, and to update their address books. So far, everyone that has emailed me has switched, but I always go back and check the old account too.