Poppycock! (I like that word for some reason. I should use it more often.)
Gmail users are more likely to be tech-savvy, well-traveled and career-minded men with iPhones, whereas Yahoo! users tend to be overweight women who like spending time in pajamas with their families, according to a new study.
Okay, I have a Yahoo! email account. I’ve been using it since about 1996 or thereabouts. And I guess I have to admit to being overweight, or at least parts of me are more bulgy that I would like. So what? Just quit profiling me dammit!
Oh yeah… I don’t spend a lot of time in my pajamas. I put them on right before I go to bed and take them off and put on day clothes as soon as I get up. So there! (I tried the hanging out in pajamas for an hour or two in the morning thing once or twice but it just doesn’t feel right.)
UPDATE: One more thing… Owning an iPhone doesn’t necessarily make you more tech-savvy.
March 10th, 2011 - 8:53 am
I have both, but no iPhone. Lots of pajamas, though. I basically just wear whatever the voices tell me to wear.
March 10th, 2011 - 10:45 am
I have both too! I use the Gmail account because it loads a lot faster, but the Yahoo account is my oldest remaining account. I’ve had it since 1996. That’s right. Since the internet was just a toddler. I was an early adopter of Gmail too — I got my account when you could only get it from someone else; Jim Treacher was the one who sent me the invite. (Oddly enough, Gmail hasn’t gotten rid of their invite thing; I have 99 left. Anyone want one?)
I do like to sit around in pajamas, and I don’t have an iPhone. I haven’t talked to my few remaining family members in years (no fight, we just lost touch) but I talk to my cat all the time so I guess that counts. Have I supported the findings of SCIENCE™?
March 10th, 2011 - 12:40 pm
My webmail account just got migrated over to a gmail interface. Should I start watching for signs of masculinization and desire to travel?
March 10th, 2011 - 1:15 pm
I’m sort of sentimental about my original Yahoo account. In the 15 years since we first connected to the Internet we’ve switched ISPs four or five times. (maybe six; I’ve lost count) but I still have the same Yahoo email address.
I have a theory about why more women use Yahoo. It’s because once upon a time Yahoo was cool and cutting edge and most of us have been using Yahoo since then, and because it works and because we have all our stuff filed away in it we stick with it.
March 10th, 2011 - 6:04 pm
I\’d love to stay in pajamas all day long but that\’s probably because I can\’t.
March 10th, 2011 - 6:06 pm
Why does my previous comment have those slashes? I couldn’t have made such consistent typos .
March 10th, 2011 - 6:23 pm
Um, It’s been my observation that anyone with a gadget/computer that has the Apple logo on it is LESS tech savvy. They just want to be “Hip” and have the latest Apple i-Fad.
This snide remark was typed without the aid of Apple. Or Windows.
March 10th, 2011 - 6:52 pm
@The Nag: The only thing I can think of is that an apostrophe is viewed in some applications as a string delimiter, and that WordPress, which normally takes care of this matter for MySQL by prefixing, yes, a slash, inadvertently failed to clear it out on the read side for some inscrutable reason.
Most people resist changing mail systems. I’ve owned my own domain for twelve years, and the mail comes through the host, but my Outlook Express (!) stuff goes back to 1997. (I did finally switch over to Windows Live Mail, which works just about the same except that it stores each item as a file, rather than slinging them all into a database and daring you to screw it up.)
March 12th, 2011 - 9:07 pm
I get mine through Yahoo because that’s where our sbcglobal account was connected to back when we first got hooked up with them. Plus, I hate all the “link all your accounts together” schtick that Gmail has been pushing. If I wanted to have everything together, I’d just have one account. I do have a Gmail account but I don’t give it out for hardly anything. I can check either from my iPhone so it doesn’t fash me to have one or the other.
I wonder if “tech savvy” as used above actually means “buys all the latest stuff immediately?”