I dont get the big deal about Yahoos new CEO, Marissa Mayer. Sure, shes a woman. Yes, shes coming to a struggling tech giant from Google. OK, shes pretty and young. I guess its a big deal that shes pregnant, but to me, pregnancy is like a brief, treatable illness with annoying long-term side effects. My only concern is that Marissa keeps Yahoo exactly the same. Im dead serious here. Of course, I have a Gmail account and my own domain name, but I still have a Yahoo email address, mostly because it had the swiftest setup for burner accounts for things like trolling Craigslist missed connections and gaming food delivery sites for Refer a Friend discounts. I used one exclusively for deal-of-the-day websites and to aggregate notifications from social networks, my bank and utility companies. My Yahoo account is, in a way, my broccoli rubber band, matchbook and loose IKEA screw junk drawer. It has its purpose, but it is, at the end of the day, only a place I go when Im looking for a lost phon
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