Yahoo! Mail: One of the Few Things I Couldn't Live Without

Thank you to Yahoo! Mail for sponsoring this post about staying connected. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.

Seriously, how did we ever survive without e-mail?

I'm asking myself this question right now as I sit down to write about something that has become such and integral part of my life, I would be seriously, seriously messed up without it.

I'm talking about my Yahoo! Mail account, which I opened back in 1996, and which has become a vital method of communication between me and friends, family, c0-workers, and potential employers.

I leaned heavily on my Yahoo! Mail account back when I was anchoring the morning news and my waking hours were between 2am and 7pm. That didn't leave much time for keeping up with my high school and college friends, but I remember working diligently on the morning newscast so that I'd have enough time to log in to my e-mail account at around 4am and read all about my friends' latest exploits.

Once I had my first baby and began staying home with her, I got my first professional writing gig with the help of my Yahoo! Mail account. I tentatively sent the editor of the Nashville Scene a link to my new personal blog. She e-mailed back an hour later and Suburban Turmoil, the column was born.

I keep in touch with various family members through my Yahoo! Mail account, like my grandmother, pictured above. I'm not much of a phone person and without Yahoo! Mail, I don't know what we'd all do. Both my parents e-mail me as often as they call when they need to find out information.

I'll freely admit that I'm completely, hopelessly addicted to Yahoo! Mail. I get somewhere between 200 and 400 e-mails a day and nearly every time I log on, a wonderful surprise is waiting, whether it's a message from an old friend or an offer of freelance work. I honestly think I'd go into a deep depression if my Yahoo! Mail account were taken away!

I know that most of you can identify with at least some of these tales. Yahoo! Mail is simply the bomb, right?

These are just a few ways that Yahoo! Mail has changed my life.

Now check out this video from Yahoo! Mail, which shows you one of the new features of Yahoo! Mail that I can't wait to use: