Gmail Propoganda

I recently signed up for a gmail account mainly so that I could stay in touch with a friend over the course of the day. Obviously, I already had a Google account (for Google Books or something) which allows me to maintain this blog. I am content with my existing Yahoo! email accounts but unfortunately, Messenger is no longer supported at my friend's job site, hence the switch. Since I was putting forth enormous effort to create an account that I did not want or need, I figured that I would make it one that I could use for professional purposes. I never gave much thought to the "image" that my email address projected- my only concern was that it was easily identifiable as mine. But then my friend sent me this NPR marketplace article which clearly shows that Google is trying to take over the world, one email at a time. I think that Google is a wonderful tool but I generally like to arrive at realizations without too much outside influence. Apparently, you are considered "uncool" and send the wrong message to hiring managers if you still use aol or hotmail or some other supposedly outdated email extension, anything other than gmail. Oh wait, Yahoo! is okay but if you really want to be taken seriously, gmail is the way to go. Anyone else see what I'm seeing? I'm almost tempted to try and test out this biased theory but I think it would be much more satisfying to keep my "okay" Yahoo! email address on my resumes after all, at least for the time being:).