[antohne]

I am trying to convince one of my friends to switch from their yahoo mail account to a gmail. What should i say to convince them?

[rgreen4]

Why should they? If the are happy with gmail and there is no perceived benefit to them, it will be an uphill battle.

[antohne]

oh my. i said the wrong thing in the subject! im trying to get them to get a gmail, and switch from yahoo.

[mphenterprises]

Hi antohne. I agree with RGreen. One should not have to be convinced to do anything. If your friend likes Yahoo Mail, he or she should stay with Yahoo Mail. There is no law saying that someone cannot have both a Yahoo Mail account and a Gmail account.

As a matter of fact, my wife is a prime example. She has had her Yahoo account for years. Now that she has a smartphone, she wants the functionality of accessing her mail on her phone. Since the free version of Yahoo Mail does not offer POP3 access (POP Forwarding), she set up a Gmail account and has never been happier. Now she has access to her Gmail emails on her phone and computer and access to her Yahoo email on her computer.

If your friend is happy with Yahoo, do not try to convince your friend to switch. Simply inform your friend that he or she can have both.

[antohne]

thanks for the advise!

[number6]

http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html

[smax013]

I am curious...why do you believe that they need to switch? In otherwords, why does it matter to you? If you are using Gmail, then a message sent to you from Yahoo should be just fine in Gmail.

[antohne]

for the chat functions and such.

[mphenterprises]

Hi antohne. I could be mistaken but doesn't Yahoo have its own chat function?

The bottom line is that trying to convince someone of something that he or she may not want to do is not the best thing to do. Emails, especially free emails, are a dime a million. :D I would venture to say that if you asked your friend to get a Gmail account without closing the Yahoo account, you would get a much more positive result.

[bbvammy]

2 YAHOOs and 2 GMAILs .....

I like GMail for its IMAP/POP3

I like YAHOO for all my spam emails, thats where I give them.