How to set up an account- Non-Technical Aimee Lilley

First click Create An Account Go to Google home page and click sign in and it will bring you to this page.

Put your first name and last Make a address Create a password which is a combination of letters and numbers Put you date of birth (do not lie) State of you are female or male Enter you mobile phone number Enter another address if you own an address already Type out what this says Change this to the country you are living in. Make sure you have read the terms and conditions. And make sure you chick the box. Click the next button.

You will receive a text message and in the text message you will be giving a verification code. Put the code in the box. After you have done that click the continue button.

After you have filled in all your details. It will come up with this page. Click the continue to Gmail button

The screenshot above shows that the account has been set up.

How to add contacts to a list - technical Click on the Gmail button and then click on contacts.

Then click on the New Group icon.

Enter the new group name. then click on Ok. This is the Ok button you need to click on.

Click on my contacts and this will show you all of your contacts.

How to send an . In the ‘To’ field you enter the address you are sending it to. In the ‘CC’ field you can send copies of your to other people. This means carbon copy and the person you send the is aware that you are sending the to them. In the ‘BCC’ field stands for blind carbon copy. Using Bcc you can send a blind copy of the to someone with out the receiver knowing it. In the ‘Subject’ field you say what the is about. In the body of the you write what you want to say to them. After all the above you click the send button and when the has been successfully send a confirmation message will be displayed on the screen.

To compose an you will need to press the compose button. Under the Google button. To read an you need to make sure that you are in your inbox and click on the you want to read.

After pressing the compose button it will come up with this.

How to stay safe online. When you set up you make sure that your password isn’t to easy for people to guess for example mix capitals, numbers, special characters. Make sure you only give your close friends, family people you trust with your address. Make sure you don’t put it on any social networking site E.G Facebook and Twitter. Also make sure sign out of your account if you are on a shared computer.