There are some really cruel people on-line.

[hunter]

40. Currently I simply ignore most of my email and mark anything unwanted as spam.

That seems to be working.

The last email address I abandoned was because of a stalker.

I've been on the internet since the late 'seventies and have a pretty thick skin but I was afraid this one would show up on my doorstep.

They didn't. Maybe they figured they'd won, depriving me of an email address and internet identity I was fond of. I haven't heard from them since.

At this point DU is my second oldest surviving internet identity and the only "social media" I subscribe to. I've never used the email apps on my phones and keep my most important contacts on paper, some of those in my head.

Maybe I'm too cautious (some might say to the point of paranoia), and maybe I should stop letting violence forty and fifty years behind me feed my present-day anxieties, but here I am. Meds and therapy have made the PTSD survivable but haven't "fixed it."

If you do change your email address you don't have to do it like I tend to, "cold turkey." I've quit meds cold turkey too, which is another thing I don't recommend..."

Embarrassingly, I've discovered more than once that I've had financial stuff I'd forgotten about tied to a particular email address. I once lost a cell phone number because of that, which caused even more problems...

It's a good idea to keep a separate email account for bills and business.