Why choose a Gmail account?

It is the order of the day to have an email address , most notifications are sent to us at this address, it is much faster and cheaper, as well as ecological. Email dates back to years 60, although began to become popular at the end of the decade of the 60 with the launch of Hotmail , which gave away email addresses without the need to contract any service or make any payment. Today they continue to give away email addresses, with a very easy-to-use interface on mobile phones, Gmail accounts are the chosen ones par excellence and we are going to show you how to create one .

There are many companies that give away email addresses, including Google, which is perhaps the best known and most widespread since appeared in 2004, Since then everyone wanted to participate in that first phase that only worked with an invitation and it was a great joy to be able to get one and launch the new Google email. The Gmail account offers us up to 15 Free GB to store email with attachments, it also offers a series of additional services to email, such as automatic reply for holidays, and other applications that We will see later and that they work with the same Gmail account, without doing anything else.

It is for the convenience of the interface, the integration of additional services and its well-known name, so everyone wants a Gmail account, you can create one in a few simple steps, we are going to tell you how.

How to create a Gmail account step by step

Anyone can create a Gmail account , either to use it as primary, secondary, or to classify spam to a single email address, follow these steps to create the yours.

1. We enter www.gmail.com.

2. If we already have an account open we will have to close session, click on continue, and select Use another account .

3. We select Create account and then For me to start creating your new Gmail account.

4. We fill in the data Name, Surname, now we select a Username that is valid, since no two emails can be the same, and we enter the password in duplicate to make sure it is correct.

5. Now optionally, but highly recommended, we enter the phone number that will serve us in case we want to recover the password, we must also Enter a recovery email address, if we do not have another we can enter someone you trust. We have to fill in our date of birth and gender.

6. We select the type of customization, in this case we select Quick Customization , as adjustments can be made later.

7. In the next step, you will talk about cookies and what data are used, in addition to that they can be further customized late. Click on Confirm to continue.
8. On the next screen it will tell us about the privacy of the Gmail account, click on I agree.

9. Clicking on I accept will open our Gmail account interface where we will find a welcome email .

We have already created our Gmail account and we can begin to communicate it to the people we want to send us an email, or to register on the different websites that we need and in it we will receive notifications of these, for example you can use it to register on our website, use the forum and leave comments on our guides, reviews or news .

Other services included with your Google account

Once our account is created of Gmail we can use this same for the other services that Google offers us , in fact, the Gmail account is the same as the Google account and allows us to access the entire ecosystem of services of all kinds offered by the search engine company:

• Account
• Search
• Maps
• YouTube
• Play
• Gmail
• Meet
• Contacts
• Drive
• Calendar
• Translator
• Photos
• Duo

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• Documents
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations
• Books
• Blogger
• Hangouts
• Google Keep
• Jamboard
• Classroom
• Earth
• Collections
• Arts and Culture
• Google Ads
• Podcast
• Stadia

If you want to access any of these services we will simply have to click on the icon with the 9 points, all the available ones will appear and we click on it to enter.

The most common and that can be most useful are :

• Photos, allows us to create a backup copy of the photos we have, it is very useful if we install it on our Android or iOS phone to create backup copies of the photos automatically.

• Drive, this utility is a space in the cloud where we can save files up to The 60 GB available free, it also has other plans with greater capacity, this extra capacity would also be added to the other services.

• Maps, you can use it as a GPS in the car or on foot, you can save the places you visit frequently, offline routes, find restaurants, etc.

• Duo, you can make calls, video calls or send messages or video messages to your contacts who also use Duo, you can do it from the PC or from your mobile.

You can take a look at the rest of the services , some may be of interest to you and make your day to day easier, such as Google Docs with which we can create and edit text documents, spreadsheets or even presentations.

Conclusion

Having a Gmail account is very useful to receive notifications in email of invoices, notices or others, it is also very fast to communicate with other people and even to send documents, but in addition to this you can obtain other services such as the possibility of making a copy of your photos and storing files in the cloud to be able to use them from any other computer connected to the internet, and all this for free , we will only have to pay a little more if we want to expand the available space.

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