Why Don't You Have a Yahoo! ID?

My first email ever is my Hotmail account, i got it back in the days, before msoft put it clwas over it. When Y! appeared, i just never found a reason to get another account, with the Hotmail and the one from my ISP i got all my needs covered. And then Gmail came, and its the best ever happened. I have a Y! account now, but i only use it for the games... a pretty lame reason if u ask me.

The Yahoo! ID is worth it for My Web alone. It is, hands down, the best social bookmarking service I've ever used (and I've used quite a few).

Yahoo does have some decent services, which is why I have an ID. I use it as my "junk" account mostly, but I like the new mail Beta, and it is worth having. I think Yahoo is quite there with integration as Google is. They have a bunch of great pieces, but I want the whole puzzle.

I have one, but I dread using it. Yahoo! got passed up years ago on their own turf of web services. I too use my gAccount for almost everything web-based these days (I also have a .Mac account). Yahoo fell by the wayside and are taking far, far too long to try and catch up - Yahoo! Mail beta, anyone? del.icio.us acquisition? Konfabulator? Flickr?? Are they going to DO anything with all this amazing stuff? Will these things ever see the light of day on the main portal?.

At this point it simply feels like Yahoo! quietly cried uncle and is hanging on to whatever still brings in revenue, like their content portal and other miscellaneous services. At least they didn't throw a chair across the room and curse their competitors like other companies who are getting slaughtered at their own game...

Of the major Internet portals, Yahoo has the best package. I have used Yahoo for years because of all of the features. It's not perfect and so what if other services have "better" offerings? Only on Yahoo are they all integrated synergistically. Maybe on AOL too, but Yahoo was free long before AOL.

Google is a copycat that had a great IPO. It has to copy Yahoo because search engines are a dime a dozen and if they lose their supremacy there, they'd have nothing else.

The rabid boosterism of both Google and Yahoo here is very disturbing to me. I have used just about every service for YEARS. The one common denominator throught that timehas been my Yahoo account because I find it gives me more stuff.

I do not use any of my google accounts for very long because I find them inadequate and simplistic (I find an uncluttered interface just means I have to click about five times to do something I could have done in one click if they exposed the controls).

This is NOT a knock on Google - I realise that my prpeferences are not the same as others. Clearly lots of people DO like the uncluttered interface. I use google search a lot - but NOT exclusively - it is NOT the be all and end all and I am a critical searcher and reader. I use google search, yahoo search, technorati and other search options. I go about five pages deep on most searches (stats are that 90% of users don't go beyond the first page) because the best answers are rarely the first ones on any search.

I get spam on every email service I've ever used. But no more on Yahoo than anywhere else and that's the email I have entered into every site I have registered for for over 8 years now.

So - in terms oif the question - I find my Yahoo ID invaluable. But it isn't the only thing I use and I think anyone who only uses one single service as some people are describing is essentially cutting themslecves of from over half the internet.

I have had my Yahoo ID since 9/6/1996 according to my profile page. I used to use it as my primary email address so if I changed ISP I would not have to worry about email changing. I stopped using yahoo as my main mail when I got my domain name which will (and has) go with me through ISP changes.

I have several Yahoo IDs and belong to several yahoo groups but I have all the mail forwarded to gmail.

Yahoo asks for my password far too often. I use gmail manager and never need to enter a password. See the difference?

The yahoo web interface sucks. For whatever application. I know that's hardly an articulate explanation. But it is also an understatement.

Yahoo has changed its email template so that messages from other Yahoo subscribers come loaded with about 25 lines of unsolicited and badly formatted content. That's contamination. Spam. I'll say it again. Unsolicited content. Built right into the legitimate messages. No 3ucking way do I support my service provider spamming me.

I don't understand these folks who say that Yahoo Mail receives too much spam. I have an email address with all of the services. I use Yahoo mail the most, but I get the least spam. IMO, Yahoo does the best job of filtering out spam.

Oh, I don't consider what Yahoo puts in my bulk mail folder as "getting spam".

Looks like my earlier comment was deleted. I must have said something true. The gist of it was that Yahoo adds spam to the tail of every email message.

I don't get it either. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Yahoo! bought Flickr and "forced" Flickr users to get a Yahoo! ID (see URL below, where I evidently got "verbally owned" in the comments). I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now.

http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2005/08/29/flickr-and-yahoo-please-support-open-identity-standards/

Personally, I disliked Yahoo! for a long time. I used it in the early days of the "Online Directory/Portal" and found it to be, usually, quite lacking. Once the Internet matured somewhat (and I started using a graphical browser) I hated the cluttered homepage and generally found no use for Yahoo! once I started using Google. But over time, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Mail, Fantasy Sports and other services have made me into a Yahoo! fan. I still don't visit the front page or use Yahoo! for search, though.

I have a Yahoo ID. But I still wouldn't trust Yahoo (especially not Groups!) with anything important, since they have a history of changing the rules retroactively and blowing away other people's data.

Also, if I want to say "a cookie is good enough to secure anything I might move through Yahoo", I should be able to do that, and not have to re-login every night. Google trusts my judgment...why doesn't Yahoo?

There is no way that a Yahoo group set up correctly can be spammed by nonmembers. I own several, some small, one over 1000 members. No spam to any of them.

It sounds like maybe they were thinking you'd have to have a Y! email address too... I got the #### spammed out of me over at Y! I've since switched to gmail (thank God), but still use my Y! ID for things like groups and fantasy sports. They do send me more newletters and notices than I'd like, but that's what the whole "reply here to unsubscribe" thing is for.

@Joe Beaulaurier #14...

I was real pumped when I saw your comment, I thought I had learned something that would finally get me past having to log in every time I wanted to bench someone in fantasy baseball... but to no avail... I already had it set at the max setting (1 day) and I still feel like I'm retyping my password every f'n minute... it's worse than Ebay (but there there's a legit reason to ask so often). And what's worse is that the ID is already filled in so my password rememberer won't have it filled in and ready to go for me... pain in my @$$!!!