DELETE YOUR OLD EMAILS! Here’s why…

Most people feel like they need to keep all their emails, so long as they are not spam, because they might need them one day. But in this blog we'll explain why, when and how you choose emails to get rid of because believe us, you don't need all of them.

If you tend to hold on to all of your old emails thinking you might need them in the future, here are three reasons why you might want to reconsider that idea:

1.You’ll probably never actually need them.

Most people have several thousand emails in their inbox and even more in their archives folder and out of those you might only need to re-read under 10 of them cause most of them were already late.

2. Archived emails use up your account’s free storage space.

If you use probably any brand of web mail (i.e. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, etc.) you’re only given a specific amount of free storage.

Even worse, your emails likely have to share that same storage with other services you have with that same company.

While several Gigabytes sounds like a lot of storage, you might be surprised at how quickly it’ll fill up, and once it does you’ll either have to delete a bunch of old emails (or photos) in order to make room for new ones unless you’re willing to start paying a monthly fee for additional storage.

3. Storing old emails can be a security risk.

If you archive every email you receive then your account is likely storing numerous emails that contain all kinds of sensitive information that could be used in malicious ways if your email account ever gets hacked.

And as you probably know, hackers break into email accounts all the time.

If you Think back to some of the emails you’ve received in the past. Some of them likely contained account numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, full names, birthdates and maybe even usernames and passwords.

Those are things a hacker could use to steal your identity (or the other party’s identity) and even put someone’s physical security at risk.

That takes care of the negatives associated with keeping tons of old emails. Now, here are a few advantages of deleting them:

1. You’ll have a cleaner and better managed Inbox and Archive folder.

2. You’ll be able to quickly find the few truly important emails when you need them.

3. You won’t have to worry about maxing out your free storage.