Making your self safe on the on the internet.

Open various free email accounts.

1. Google (Gmail)

2. Yahoo

3. Windows live MSN (Hotmail)

4. AIM Mail

5. GMX Mail

The reason to open some new emails account is to protect your privacy. If for example you are going to a lot of sites that need registration you need a workable email address.
But giving out this (your main email) to everyone you sign up for is asking for thousands af spam emails.
So you need disposable emails. that once they have served their purpose you can keep for other activities or cancel that account.
You can also make a trail of email addresses.
Get a hotmail email, link it to your yahoo account then link it to you Aim. That means you are pretty safe in anyone stalking or tracking you down.

But in business there are reasons for having all these email addresses if you have a company name it is best to get you@yourcompanyname.com yourcompanyname@hotmail.com yourcompanyname@gmail.com. It opens you up for a whole new range of potential customers
for example Yahoo has yahoo answers. You can use your gmail account for blogger, Adsense, Google, Facebook, and all programs and sites used by Google. A lot of these also have instant messaging so you an direct live chat to customer that may need assistance.