I just should very loudly. Works for me. Si non confectus, non reficiat.

I use Gmail. Works better with my Thunderbird than Hotmail and Yahoo.

I don't obsess over google

The answer could well be this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQAf2BM_sYw

Google DO have a certain element of spying in their products - just look at some of their stuff on Android. To install Google Drive on Android (one of the products I believe you said was a great feature of Gmail) you need to give it this permission:

Your personal information - Read call log, read your contacts.

In Google's words, this means that "malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge". Well, why do they need my call log data in order to write a letter?

Also, there's the God-awful new pop-up compose window that's enforced on Chrome users - terrible! Who wants to compose an e-mail in a tiny window like that? And, going back to Drive, there are several basic features present in Office that are missing from it. I don't mean advanced things - stuff like you can't have a header appear on the first page only.

Don't get me wrong, I use Gmail. I just don't think it's the perfect mail client. And I love Android, but I do feel the permissions are very oddly grouped by Google (e.g. you could have the permission to pause an app when the phone rings without telling the app what number is calling, what my number is, the serial number of my phone and how long the call is connected).

I have multiple email accounts.

I use both Yahoo and Gmail. The yahoo I have had since around 2000 (might even be '99?), so kind of attached to it. The Gmail is more for personal/business stuff.

(V) (;,,;) (V) WHY NOT ZOIDBERG

Google is forcing too much on me for my personal taste. Remember when you were allowed to have a separate YouTube account? Not any more... fuck them trying to jam down my throat to use my real name. I made a separate email account just to not have to link it with my main one. The fact that I have to do that just for some measure of privacy between two separate services is stupid as shit.

I'll keep my Hotmail account for most mundane email purposes and gmail can still be my professional personal email.

Never let someone get all the power, because then they can and will do what they want, no matter how the common user feels.

Why not NSA mail?

Well I have a gmail but I dont use it. I use my comcast email along with a private domain email.

Gmail is the best.

I use my gmail account for signing up for crap I know I'm going to get spam from. For registering for services and websites, I use my yahoo account I've had for like 10 years now. I can't imagine the amount of time it would take me to switch over the uncountable amounts of things I have linked to my yahoo account just for the sake of using gmail instead of yahoo. And since I route all my email to miscrosoft outlook, it doesn't even really matter to me whether I use gmail, or yahoo, or comcast, or msn, or whatever because it would all function the same way.

tl;dr - I have no reason to switch to gmail for my main email account

Why would i change to gmail? I can still send and receive mail with my current e-mail service, i don't see what more i would get from gmail. No point changing imo.

i have an yahoo and gmail account, but i preffer to use yahoo it's much friendly, but i thinking to buy my own domain to create my own email something like NickName@FamilyName.ro/.com/.wtf

I use Gmail occasionally but mostly use my domain e-mail. If they were still offering free Google Apps accounts I'd probably be using that but I was a little too late to sign up.

It a pain in the arse to login because other people has a gmail account and logs out of my gmail. Where as hotmail no one logs in there so i don't ever have to login.

I hate how a GMail account is connected to all kinds of shit i don't need (G+ , youtube account ...). And once you are logged in they connect all the information they collect about you on other websites (a lot of sites are using scripts like google-analytics.com or ajax.googleapis.com) to you(r account).
What I really like about GMail is the spam filter. They send me a "check out the newest shit on youtube" mail, I moved it to the spam folder and now every advertising mail about youtube goes to spam right away :)

I have 2 gmail accounts, 1 hotmail, 1 yahoo, and 2 from 2 different universities and I use them all

I use Gmail (and have a few accounts), and quite a few other Google Products like Searching.

I mean honestly, They already see all my search results, anything found in my email that isn't considered spam (and maybe even so) can't be worse, So no reason for me to worry. :p

I'm used to hotmail, though that has become outlook now but yeah, I don't see the point in switching, I also have a gmail but I don't really use it.

I like gmail, but... all the changes to the look/functionality that came in last year or so are terrible. Last one I really hate is the new compose mail...using old interface now, but god forbid when they turn it off and I have to use that new abomination.

it's funny how people complain about privacy, and yet, make every single search on google.

I do like Gmail and do think no other provider is nearly as effective at handling spam. Gmail rarely gives me false positives or false negatives.

What I don't like is that you can't remove all the social crap. I just want email, I don't need chat built into it, or social media crap. I also dislike how often you set it to not show something, and it just comes back. I wish they had a happy medium between basic HTML and a bunch of crap. I like how it auto refreshes so I just click on the tab and new emails show, basic HTML doesn't do that. I'd love a basic with auto refreshing for people who just want mail and not the extra bells and whistles.

Because- you guessed it- I have a perfectly functional e-mail in another country specific place that you have likely never heard about. So why don't I switch to G-Mail? Why the hell would I NEED to switch to G-Mail?

I tend to not use any free or isp based email. Don't like any of them.