The Average Gmail is Worth About $3,600

[Guest]

No, you cannot sell your email.

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[Guest]

I beg to differ...mine is priceless 😀

 

[Guest]

I dont know how much my gmail worth right now. it's full of spam and porn photo now.

 

[joytech22]

Ehh.. My E-Mail accounts are all worthless then. I've sent maybe 100-200 E-Mails since 2002?

 

[olaf]

Mine is still full of WOW spam trying to trick me out of the account i sold years ago.

 

[oj88]

I've spent more time in reading than writing the emails. I wonder if my privacy there is secure or not.

Just don't use Gmail at work, otherwise one might get fired by the employer in stealing $3,588.85.

 

[zoemayne]

All the emails I write relating to my salary are Internal emails

 

[Guest]

Facebook now has 955 million worldwide users http://www.techatron.net/2012/07/facebook-now-has-955-million-worldwide.html

 

[Onus]

A better title would have been "Average Gmail Cost $3,600 in Spent Time."
Cost is not the same as Worth.

 

[Guest]

what a silly thing...then how much would worth an average toilet in spent time?

 

[nforce4max]

I wonder how much my .edu account at google would be worth. Used up like 15% of the allowed storage atm.

 

[igot1forya]

I would gladly sell you my SPAM folder!

 

[redeye]

which is why the Late Steve Jobs wrote such short email replys... time is money!

 

[cookoy]

only in my dreams

 

[kanoobie]

Thanks, that was a good laugh.

 

[joebob2000]

This is so far beyond pointless that I am tempted to just ignore it but why not take a swing... It's friday after all.

The average user spent "3,600 worth of time" creating all those emails. That is not to say that recreating them would cost exactly $3,600 because, as you can imagine, the email contents are NOT stored in the users' head. Recreating them all would be extremely difficult (and therefore come at a much higher price). Backupify has an interesting thesis (and certainly backups are valuable) but not assessing the *forward value* of those emails means that you pretty much cannot act on that figure.

 

[raytseng]

i guess my bed is worth like millions then...

 

[nebun]

this tool is not very accurate at all...it does not take into account the deleted messages, contacts and account longevity....you oldest message does not mean that you have had the account for that long....my oldest message was from 2006 and i know for a fact that the account was created sometime in 2004....same for the save data....it only accounts for the data that's present on the account...where is the server data, nothing is delete, all the emails old or new are stored somewhere....this is a big fail

 

[aoneone]

Who wants my email account? ^_^

 

[XZaapryca]

Using the logic of the article, my crap (if I had saved in jars like Howard Hughes) would be worth approximately $325,416.80. My main WoW toon is $39,663.23. Why do I even work?!?