Monday, July 15, 2013

RACE TO SNATCH OLD, UNUSED YAHOO USER NAMES BEGIN





Recently, Yahoo declared publicly about how the company will soon let people claim any inactive user names in order to get them to use the site. Although this would be considered as good news to most people (including me), this has increased the interests of online security experts who are afraid that the owners prior to the email might get their information stolen. Here, the article first presented the company’s blueprint on its way of increasing site users. This can be a good thing because many people have abandoned their old accounts for new ones (including me). One possible reason why they did it was probably because their email user name reflected their time when they made it which can be embarrassing. Thankfully I’m not one of those people, but I would like to add that this can be a good thing. As social media sites continue to increase tremendously, more and more email accounts are being made which means that the originality of a user name is decreasing. So why not reactivate neglected email accounts? The cycle has to end somewhere and sometime in order for a new one to begin, which brings me to the apparatus of the company’s course of supporting the matter that was presented later on in the article. This plan seems reasonable and fair for everyone. Instead of just automatically putting the name up for grabs, Yahoo is trying to get websites to support their course. It makes sense, I mean, what’s the point of using an abandon email address for a website that currently interests you? Overall, if you aren’t using something and careless about it, you might as well give it away. Yahoo might just be the first company to start a new trend. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

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