Whatever you do, protect your email address at all cost. Many retails, physicians, lawyers now ask for your email address as another way to contact you. But just like your phone number or even your social security number, this is a way for evil doers to spam you or utilize your email address for evil things. Worse case! send you bad jokes endlessly. If you are one that likes to send out jokes, videos to a group of your friends that don’t know each other, take care to hide their email address by blind CCing or creating a distribution list that hides the addresses. Best case, create a new email address for public use such as newsletters, jokes, posting comments, registering for public web sites, etc. PC Magazine claims that 97% of spam comes from posting comments and registering your email address.
Best way to prevent is to spell it out as a graphic. You can do this best by going to Safe Mail.
Of course there are all sorts of different ways to use protection 
just google it. Probably, the best way to stay safe, is to abstain or just not do it. I just want to raise awareness.
