I've been having trouble lately with Google. About two months ago or so, I started forwarding all e-mail to one Gmail account. Or at least I thought I was. It forwarded to my old primary account just fine, but when it came to forwarding stuff to my new primary account, it just wasn't working. So I've missed several e-mails from my sister as well as missing messages from my phone carrier. After an hour of switching back and forth, I finally got it, but man what a terrible experience.
It's a pain not being able to be logged into both accounts at the same time. Logging in and out of one account to go double check something in another is frustrating. It also became doubly frustrating when Blogger decided to not like my new e-mail address. I was able to stay logged into Blogger with my old address and be logged into Gmail with my new address with no problems for the longest time. Now, when I sign into one service, it signs me into both services with that particular e-mail address. So I had to create another Blogger account, invite myself to my own blog, and then give myself admin privileges. It's infuriating! Why can't Google just let me change my login e-mail address? Sure you can change your e-mail address, but your login stays the same which is problematic when you use Gmail and other Google services.
I couldn't tell you how many e-mail addresses I've had over my lifetime. I'd say about six to eight personal ones and about two more for school. Most of those are irrelevant now, but when it comes to the two that actually matter... Ugh! I'm just so aggravated right now. If Google had taken my advice to give Gmail a tabbed interface with a tab for each account and one that consolidates all mail, then this wouldn't be a problem. So you've failed me twice over Google. Good job.
But seriously, other than this round of shenanigans, Google and Gmail have been really good to me. Most of it comes down to my own ignorance I suppose. Still, Google didn't exactly make it easy for me this time around.
On another note (and speaking of consolidating), I've decided to give FriendFeed a whirl. It'd probably be more useful to my friends if I did the Facebook and Twitter thing as well, but I think I'll decline from participating with those two services. Not very modern of me, I know.
It's a pain not being able to be logged into both accounts at the same time. Logging in and out of one account to go double check something in another is frustrating. It also became doubly frustrating when Blogger decided to not like my new e-mail address. I was able to stay logged into Blogger with my old address and be logged into Gmail with my new address with no problems for the longest time. Now, when I sign into one service, it signs me into both services with that particular e-mail address. So I had to create another Blogger account, invite myself to my own blog, and then give myself admin privileges. It's infuriating! Why can't Google just let me change my login e-mail address? Sure you can change your e-mail address, but your login stays the same which is problematic when you use Gmail and other Google services.
I couldn't tell you how many e-mail addresses I've had over my lifetime. I'd say about six to eight personal ones and about two more for school. Most of those are irrelevant now, but when it comes to the two that actually matter... Ugh! I'm just so aggravated right now. If Google had taken my advice to give Gmail a tabbed interface with a tab for each account and one that consolidates all mail, then this wouldn't be a problem. So you've failed me twice over Google. Good job.
But seriously, other than this round of shenanigans, Google and Gmail have been really good to me. Most of it comes down to my own ignorance I suppose. Still, Google didn't exactly make it easy for me this time around.
On another note (and speaking of consolidating), I've decided to give FriendFeed a whirl. It'd probably be more useful to my friends if I did the Facebook and Twitter thing as well, but I think I'll decline from participating with those two services. Not very modern of me, I know.
2 comments:
LOL. not very modern of you. I'll get you to jump on facebook eventually ;)
Kat got me started using chrome, I like it, although I'm a little wary of security on it. But it's pretty nice.
I'd like Chrome better if it had extensions... Browsing the web without AdBlock is analogous to using Internet Explorer 4.
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