How to get an email account

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By minnie002
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get an email account

Not very handy with computers? But want an email account that everyone has? Well look no further. . . this article will teach of the different options available for a free email account.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

basic info
internet connection

Step 1

Pick site

Think about where you want to get your email at. Here are a couple of options: yahoo, mail.com, aol, hotmail, gmail, etc.
Step 2

Yahoo

Yahoo:

Yahoo offers alot including spam protection, no pop ups, and fast loading. With yahoo you can send pictures, email, and regular documents. Yahoo also offers a sleek new design or mail classic.
Step 3

Also offers chat

All the other emails offer the basic stuff that yahoo does and some offer an email service that you pay for but gives you more options for your email including more space to save your documents and pictures.
Step 4

Think on your address

When you have decided where you want your email at decide on what you want your email address to be (yourname@yahoo.com, yourname@gmail.com, etc.) you should pick something that means something to you for ex. if you like to draw you use luv2draw@yahoo.com
Step 5

Sign up

After you have decided on the email address go to the site and click on sign up. Fill in the information and click submit you should be all set. Keep in mind that the email address you use may not be available but most sites give you suggestion on what your email address you be.
Step 6

Sign up for ehow! :)

You should now have an email account! So now you can sign up for any site you wish. And I reccommend that you sign up for ehow.com!