Primary Email

A recent poll on Facebook shows that the primary email of all people polled is Hotmail (grrr). What’s even more interesting is the demographics. If you go to the page (you do not have to log in to view it- Kudos on the, Facebook!) you will see that there is a big difference between sexes, notably the gap between male and female respondents for Hotmail (35% and 42% respectively) and Gmail (22% and 11% respectively). I am not sure what to make of these numbers and why so many females choose Hotmail over Gmail.

The other interesting numbers are with age. It seems Hotmail gets people 13-17 and 25-35, where Employee and School email dominates the 18-24 realm. This is understandable as maybe people at least 25 have been using Hotmail for some time. It was the de facto email client for quite some time. And of course, 18-24 now-a-days have to use school or employee email to survive.

I’d like to see some input on what people use and why. (Maybe this is something better fit for LifeHacker, but what the heck). I for one use GMail and have all my mail forwarded there. I wrote a review a few years back when it first came out, but with almost 3GB storage, the ability to email from other email addresses and great organization features, there isn’t much better.