How to Make Your Own Email Address
Rather than people’s names we know them by their email addresses. With most of our leisure time spent online either checking mails or chatting with friends it is more than a necessity. When you ask for information, people usually ask you for your email address so that they can forward the information to your inbox. Even when we have friends staying at different locations around the world, send and receive news and images easily with the email address.
There are lots of email service providers with whom you can register yourself and create an email address. Basically your email address is your virtual address on the internet that you use like a postal address where you receive letters. It is very easy to get an email address and start using it within no time.
To make your own email address, you would need a computer or laptop with internet connection. You can choose the email service provider of your choice or your friends have so that you can chat with them with ease. The hot favorite among the email service providers are aol.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com etc. You can choose the service provider which gives more options and allows you more internet inbox space.
- First Name: Type your name here. It is mandatory.
- Middle Name: If you have a middle name, enter it here.
- Last Name: Provide your last name here. This is also compulsory.
- Login Name: Choose the login name that you like or would like to associate with your email address. You can either give your own name or choose a nickname or a
fictional name of your choice. - Check availability: After you enter the login name you must check if it is already taken or not. As the world wide wed is free for all people with your name might have already registered themselves with the service provider. If you do not get the login name you chose you would have to select some other name. some people even use digits to distinguish themselves from the rest of the crowd as an identification. After you do this your email address would appear something like login_name@live.com etc. also you can try out different name to be different!
- Enter the password: You must type the password that you can remember and use it every time you login to your inbox. You can pick a password that is your nickname or your date of birth or your pet’s name etc. you must make sure you choose a password that is secured and you don’t tell it to everyone.
- Choose a security question: You would need to choose a security question and provide the answer so that when you forget or loose your password you can change it.
- Secondary email address: If you have another email id, you can give it to be able to receive the new passwords when you reset it.
- Location/Country: Choose you country and city.
- Captcha: enter the words shown in the captcha for secured login.
- Terms & conditions: Read and agree to the terms and conditions of the service providers.
- Now, your email id is ready to be used and shared.
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