So from time immemorial I’ve had a Yahoo mail account. This was before the advent of Google.
I use it for a few important contacts - business contacts, my husband because he prefers Yahoo although I cannot for the life of me imagine why, our March Madness brackets, airline miles… All that stuff unrelated to my writing.
But over the past year I’ve begun to hate Yahoo.
1. It freezes all the damn time.
2. At least 3-4 times a week, usually more often, I cannot load my email and instead get an error message.
3. Even with my new computer, loading my inbox is slow as molasses. Everything else I do pops right up. Not Yahoo.
4. I’ve opted out of ads and yet ads keep appearing smack dab on top of my inbox. Can’t see a dang thing. Can’t even write an email because I can’t see what I’m typing.
5. Seems like Yahoomail changes its format or whatever you call it every other week. I was happy with the old stuff. It worked. The new stuff does not. What’s that saying- If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
5. Trying to send a help message or contact Yahoo is like trying to contact Alpha Centauri. No wait… Contacting Alpha Centauri would be easier. And a helluva lot more interesting.
I’m really sick of this. My solution? I’ll gradually switch everything of importance over to my Gmail account and use Yahoo only for the stubborn hubborn and miscellaneous emails, you know, the emails I can ignore for a while.
Just a little note, because I’m annoyed. I need to get this off my chest before I begin a series of posts on my nonfic- One Foot In Heaven, Journey of A Hospice Nurse. Always $.99.
It is not just Yahoo. It is ALL e-mail providers. Yahoo is particularly meddlesome…….asking me what I want to write about as I type. Too busy. That is why slows down a lot. I use only for businesses who will start sending me ads I don’t want.
Road Runner is a pain too. Cost too high. Breaks down too often, help desk has too many people who can;t speak English. And that guy in their commercials - he scares me. He just walks through your door unannounced and uninvited with out knocking and he is every where. He is an intruder and busy body. He scares me. He is a peeping Tom and I want him off the air waves.
Sorry you’re dealing with that. The only thing I can say in favor of yahoo is that you can at least send an email to a help desk. I’ve never found such a critter with gmail. If you discover it, please give a holler.
I haven’t had gmail problems, Sandra. Only yahoo. And I haven’t been able to reach the help desk because I have a big old fat ad right in front of the help desk icon- can’t see it to send an email.
Roberta, I think I’m comparing Yahoo now to what Yahoo used to be. It used to be functional. Gmail has some annoying features but overall is way better. I’ve never used Road Runner.
A change is as good as a rest, but what do I know
You go girl go…… Xxxxxx
Yeah, Tom, pissing me off.
It’s you fault, no, don’t deny it .. it’s all your damned fault.
Just tried to send an email to two people on my BTyahoo account, one of whom is in my address book the other isn’t. Because the second one isn’t in the address book it wouldn’t send the F*&^%”g email until I added him to the address book WTF is that all about
Yahoo does that to me too, Tom. In fact it refuses to load addresses that are actually in my address book. I so hate the new Yahoo.