I Really Dislike The Way The Yahoo Mail Functions These Days. Can I Change Back To Former System

Why am I being shamed for "still" having a Yahoo email address, when a network of thousands of people over 20 years has that address? What sense is there to losing all those business & personal contacts, to prove I'm modern or hip? It sounds absurd.

Well, first, let’s get a something out of the way.No one should be ‘shaming’ you. It’s your choice. OTOH, if people are respectfully suggesting you change, there are reasons.It has nothing to do with being ‘hip’ or ‘modern.’ It has everything to do with security. Yahoo has become a ‘spam magnet.’ Anyone who wants to spam others, if they aren’t using an .ru account, they will use a yahoo account. Yahoo has done little to nothing to circumvent this.So when people get a yahoo email, it may go directly to their spam box, depending on the filters they have, or may not get there at all, depending on the filters it has to go through on it’s way. Furthermore, if they don’t recognize your address because they know you, they may automatically assume it’s spam.Also, some people don’t really like sending to yahoo accounts, because once they send to you through their email, they know their email is not only someplace in Yahoo’s cyberspace, but more specifically on your computer. And many people consider that if someone is still using a Yahoo account, that they may not be very security conscious or educated, so they may feel their email runs a risk being on your computer if you were to get hacked.Yahoo is just thought of by some computer saavy people as the creepy old man that hangs out at the schoolyard. It’s just a spammy, icky place to some people.Lastly, if you ever do decide to get a new, free, email account, like a gmail account, for instance, where they have much better filters, there is no reason you need to lose your contacts. They can be exported from Yahoo, and imported into other email services.Need to Export Your Address Book from Yahoo Mail? Here's HowNeed to Import Yahoo Mail and Contacts Into Gmail? Follow This GuideI hope this helps.

What went wrong with Yahoo? It was once worth almost $125 billion, but today sold to Verizon for $5 billion.

There is no one single reason that Yahoo "went wrong", which I assume means that they aren't seen as one of the top couple of internet companies like they once were. There are product reasons, strategic reasons, and cultural reasons. Some top of mind examples though:Focusing so much for years on Panama (Google Adwords competitor) and search in general, when they ended up losing to Google and eventually outsourcing this to Microsoft.Becoming too unfocused. Yahoo tried to do everything and triggered the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto from Brad Garlinghouse that summarized this problem well.The shift from a desktop world where everyone used home pages to a mobile and social world. Yahoo failed to build their own successful mobile and social products or to acquire any. Yahoo got too bloated, and nobody would ever make the cuts needed to both headcount and its products/properties.Buying Flickr, then letting it languish. Buying Flickr for $35 million was a bargain when you see how huge social photos are today. They could have turned Flickr into the next Facebook or Instagram and instead didn't invest properly in it.Failing to acquire Google and then Facebook. Yahoo had opportunities to buy both of these companies when it was clear they were going to be big successes and instead wouldn't pay what was needed. For example, they had a deal to buy Facebook for $1.1 billion pretty much accepted, then Yahoo's earnings came out and the value of the deal dropped to 800M due to stock compensation and Zuckerberg balked when Yahoo wouldn't change the deal to put the price back up. Think about the value of Facebook today and that Yahoo didn't acquire them over a $300M difference.Leadership changes. Looking at companies like Google and Facebook you'll see that the same leadership has essentially been in place the whole time. Yahoo has had a shifting cast of CEOs and executive teams that has never provided a longer term vision and execution path to take shape.Acceptance of lower quality employees. By the time I worked at Yahoo from 2007-2010, there were still a ton of great A-quality people there, but there were also a lot of B or C-quality people who were not outstanding at their work. This starts to eat away at the company and make the A-players go work elsewhere.There are more reasons, but these provide a good summary...

Can I see if someone read my email in Yahoo mail?

Your question refers to the “read receipt” which is not a feature of Internet-based free email. It's only part of the feature set of business email exchangers like Microsift Outlook Exchange.You first would’ve had to request a read receipt, while sending each such message of interest.So the short answer is: at home, probably not. At work, it depends, but likely no unless you requested such notification when you sent the message. Some systems support ex-post-facto read receipts, but unless you included a read receipt request originally, that may be immaterial, anyway. When I don't get a timely reply, I may try two or three other modes to contact the recipient. These include messages with subjects like 2nd REQUEST: {original subject}, polite phone calls, contacting their support staff or other coworker with a general inquiry. I have never considered contacting the IT dept. to ask if the person checks messages often. Non-communicative types are generally “off their radar,” too.Note that although it's tempting to jump to conclusions, even when message recipients receive read requests (which may pop up even via Yahoo! Mail—read their Help pages for full details), the recipient can easily decline to notify you. So unless you phone them to inquire, you may never know if they read your message or not. Auto-responders provide no proof.For proof: certified paper mail with proof of delivery. Ask any paralegal.It's a modern-life reality that people with inflated egos and/or criminal tendencies routinely disregard the usual niceties of acknowledging that they’ve received and/or read messages. Or maybe they’re behind in their correspondence/work, or they simply dislike you and may wish to continue patterns of passive-aggressive behavior? Some issues have no technological solution. HR dept. visit, anyone?The same people who fail to return phone calls and never reply to email messages used to pay secretaries to run interference for them. When observing such behavior/patterns in someone: I advise going over or around them. Changing them is not your job.Be careful of accusing others without real evidence. Red flags? Being the first “snitch” who identifies ongoing passive-aggressive behaviors may impact your popularity, but exposing cretins for exactly who they are can be fun and may improve.culture in time.Thanks for the A2A. Sorry if I overshared, lol.