An email address or ID is just like an address or telephone number of a person
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Internet has entered into the life of everyone and people now prefer to carry out their conversations, meetings etc. on the internet. An email address gives you a home on the internet. You can send message to anyone via email. It's free and very fast. But sometimes we may find ourselves in need to change our email ID. Some of the reasons that compel a person to go for a new email address are usually dissatisfaction with the current provider, lot of spam in the mail box, funny looking email ID or for security reasons. So here are some steps you need to follow if you are wondering how do I change my email address.
If your account is relatively new it is not that difficult to change your email address as you have not given it to many people and can easily give it to people you have given your email address. Email services providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. lets you make email IDs for free. So you can easily discard your previous email id and make a new one. Most of the providers also let you close your previous account. Although it is completely up to you if you want multiple accounts or not.
In case you have been using an email address for quite a long time and now all of a sudden wants to get rid of it might be a lot tougher than you actually think. It is never advisable to delete an old account as it can be really problematic. There are a lot of reasons why it is not considered such a good option. First of all, it would be very time consuming to inform all the people about your new email address and chances are that you will skip some people and therefore lose contact. Secondly, you will also lose all your old mails and other data which may have important documents and photos. All that data is not worth losing. Thirdly, if you are using your email address as the username of some other service you will face a lot of difficulty in restoring everything back. Therefore, if you are very sure of changing your email address the best bet would be to open a new account and auto-forward all your mails to the new account.