aol.com users are usually the least technically inclined. I cringe when a support ticket comes through from an @aol.com address. It means I'll probably have to teach them how to drag and drop.
:rofl:
In my case, I don't have business contacts, i.e. no people with businesses are my contacts, but I do contact some of my customers by email. And since most of my email communication is of the 'personal' or casual sort -- family, friends, customers -- it's not surprising that
none of them has his/her/their own domain. And
none has a premium provider (FastMail, Runbox, etc.) One uses AOL; several use Gmail, several Hotmail/Outlook; a couple Yahoo; and so forth. My only judgement from this is that my contacts don't obsess over email (like I do
).
In general I would guess that 1) many AOL users started with them years ago and just never cared about trying anything else, 2) Yahoo users are those who, after getting their first computer, realized they needed an email address, did a search (on Yahoo?) and found it at the top of the search results, 3) Hotmail users went with the service provided by their Windows PCs, and 4) Gmail users are those who a) wanted to try something new and different when it first came out, b) want to thumb their noses at the other providers, esp. MS, c) want to have their email experience integrated with other communication/documentary needs and use Google's range of services for it, or d) asked friends for recommendations of a good email service and kept hearing about "Gmail" and decided to try it.
I don't know... is all this too 'judgmental' on my part?