My Yahoo! account was old…real old. I kept hanging on to it because it was my first and last name. There were no numbers, dashes or dots. But I was getting thousands of spam messages a week. It was time to move on. Instead of simply abadoning the account and creating a new one, I decided to do Yahoo a favor and actually delete the account.
Then I realized how much Yahoo actually owns. Since it was tied to my Flickr Account, Flickr became inaccessable, Launch, and a bunch of other stuff that was tied to my Yahoo account – all zapped into oblivion.
But I have to admit, creating my new Yahoo identity from the ground up was a little fun. I moved my online calendar from MSN to Yahoo, configured the email (even though I am a staunch advocate of Gmail), and even created an avatar.
I hate to think what would happen if I ever decided to get a new Hotmail account.