Many people use the email address given to them by their employer or ISP, but this can cause problems. If you change jobs or ISP’s then your email address will no longer work and friends, family and business contacts will no longer be able to get in touch with you. Chris Brogan today wrote a good article explaining why you should Buy a domain or at least use Gmail:
Several friends of mine recently left their job all at once (the company had a mass layoff). I checked in LinkedIN, and it looks like I’m now missing a way to directly contact at least 70 of them, because they used their business email address as their primary point of contact.
So go out there and sign up with Gmail, and if you are more adventurous purchase your own domain.
