This post shows ways to create a new email address for yourself.
By 2023, the number of email users worldwide will reach 4.4 billion. That is up almost 16% from 3.8 billion users in 2021 — nexalearning.
Electronic mail is a means of exchanging messages (“mail”) between people through the use of electronic devices. Emails are used in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other areas of daily life in very many countries.
The email systems nowadays are based on a store-and-forward model. Meaning servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages. Users and their computers do not have to be online at the same time.
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They just need to connect, usually to a mail server or a webmail interface to send or receive messages. Here are ways to instantly create a new email address for yourself:
Contents
1. Creating a new Gmail account
a) Firstly, in your browser go to accounts.google.com and tap or click on create account
b) Secondly, choose whether the account is for yourself, your child, or for a business. Assuming its for yourself, choose “For myself”
c) Thirdly, enter all the necessary information in the boxes provided and tap or click on the Next button
d) Another page will be opened assuming all went well. You will be required to fill in more information like your phone number and date of birth. Fill in all the required information and click next.
e) Read through the privacy and terms on the next page and click on the “I agree” button to proceed.
f) Congratulations, you have created for yourself a Gmail address. You will see this when you succeed.
2. Using disposable email addresses to create a new email address for yourself
Disposable email address means an approach where a user with a unique email address gets a temporary email address for your current contact. After a certain amount of time, the email account is deleted.
You could try out 10 Minute mail, Proton Mail, and Temp Mail.
3. Using Gmail separators to instantly create a new email address for yourself
Assuming you have a Gmail username as mike. You must be receiving emails at [email protected]. You can now use any number of new distinct email addresses.
How? By appending a special Gmail separator — the + (plus) sign—to your username, followed by any keyword of your choice e.g. [email protected], [email protected], etc.
Emails sent to any of these addresses will be found in your Gmail inbox. But now it will be easier to organize your inbox. For example, you can filter emails by their “To” address.
It is important to note that Outlook also supports the use of separators.
Conclusion
I got my first email at the age of 13 using a Nokia smartphone. To enjoy most of the services on the internet, I had to have an email address. Then at University, I had to have another email address to submit coursework, receive assignments, results, etc. Lastly, at my current place of work, I have an email address for back-and-forth communication on the work I am doing.
The point is that emails are very necessary to have in this current era we live in. You will want to access some features on a website or mobile app and they will ask you to log in using an email. You will want to apply for a job and they will ask you to send your CV to an email address, and so on.
Now you know how to create an email address for yourself instantly.