The reason why I mention using a valid email address — that is, one that you use and check often (so it remains active) — is because if you ever forget your password or something, pretty much all websites will send you an email that will help you gain access to your account. They usually do this by giving you instructions to reset your password or by sending you your actual password (most of the time it’s the former).

If you don’t want to receive promotional emails and such, during registration, make sure that you check off the option to NOT receive them. If you forget to do this, most (if not all) sites will allow you to change your email preferences in your account settings once you get the account set up. I decided to throw this in in case you ever register for an account at a retailer’s site. They’ll ask if you want to receive alerts for promotions and coupons.

To answer the last part of your question, you do not need to create a new yahoo email address every time you sign up for an account on a site. You can use the same one for all of them. However, if you want to make more than one account on a site, you will need to use a different email address. For example, if you use for a youtube account, if you want a second youtube account, the site will most likely ask you to use another email address because there’s already an account that is using that email address. If you try to register for a youtube account and you run into this problem, you probably already have an account on that site OR there is the unlikely possibility that someone accidentally used your email address because theirs is really similar and they don’t know how to type.

If you ever decide to create a new email address, make sure you update your email address on each site (youtube, myspace, facebook, etc.). I used to work in customer service for Barnes & Noble.com. When you forget your password, we’d send you an email to reset it, but a lot of times, people would change their email addresses and forget which one they used or they didn’t have access to it anymore due to changing internet service providers (this is why I always prefer to use a free service that’s not tied to a paid account that will be deactivated when I end my subscription). It’s funny because they got mad, but they should be keeping their information current. People would move a lot, too, and they’d get mad when we won’t release information to them if they couldn’t provide their previous address (it’s a security measure).

Anyway, sorry for this being so lengthy. I was just trying to be thorough. Hope this helps.

I thought it was common knowledge that you can use the same account for any website you want or as many different ones as you like.

I must’ve signed up to about 200 websites in the last couple years, as if I’d make 200 e-mail accounts.

As long as you have an email address that you can use and is up to date, you can basically use it for any other web addresses and accounts.

Hope you understand and hope I helped! =]