On the heels of Facebook’s privacy issues, controlling the use of your own personal information has never been so important.
Unfortunately, everything we do seem to require an email address – even the apps we use on our phone, need an email address to be downloaded. With digital fraud so rampant it feels like a risk to privacy by giving out your email so freely.
To maintain privacy, you want to make sure your information isn’t bought, sold, or even used to spam other email accounts. As a means of email control, most people use at least two different email accounts, a basic one for personal use and email address they give out to the public.
While two email accounts may be effective this means you have two inboxes to keep track of, and who needs the extra hassle?
Instead, we recommend the use of a disposable email address. These email addresses are used, not only keep your personal emails private but also to track where your email addresses are utilized, and if they are sold.
Creating a disposable email is as easy as 1,2,3.
You must have an active email address, for example, HarryStiles@dundee.net
Add a + or – followed by a tag, HarryStiles+flowers@dundee.net
When deciding on a tag to use, it is advised you use a tag that corresponds to what you are signing up for. In this case, the tag flowers could be for a gardening blog or even an email account associated with a floral shop.
Use this email until you no longer wish to be contacted by this company then simply remove the email address from your account effectively blocking any content using that email address from landing in your inbox
Disposal email accounts allow you can create as many emails as you need, and once you’re finished with them, just throw them into the bin. Therefore, if your email address is sold to a third party or you find your inbox suddenly is slammed with spam there is a simple fix.
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